In a decision issued on April 7, 2026, Justice Guzman in Bronx County Supreme Court granted our summary judgment motion submitted on behalf of one of the largest hospitals in the Bronx area in a general liability case in which plaintiff claimed to have suffered injuries to her knees and back as a result of ...

Congratulations to Joseph Shmulewitz, John McNaboe, and our team on obtaining a voluntary discontinuance and full dismissal of a medical malpractice action on March 31, 2026. The case involved a 74-year-old patient who expired following complications related to a prior aortic dissection. Plaintiff alleged that a major metropolitan hospital failed to timely diagnose and ...

HPM&B Attorneys Amitisse Noohi and James Navarro recently secured complete dismissal on summary judgment in Bronx County Supreme Court on behalf of a major metropolitan medical center and a physician’s assistant. Plaintiff claimed the defendants negligently recommended and performed a cardiac ablation procedure, allegedly resulting in an atrio-esophageal fistula that was not timely diagnosed. ...

The HPMB New York City legal defense team secured a complete dismissal of a federal civil rights action in the Southern District of New York, with Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald granting a motion to dismiss filed by Rosalie Tanis. In a 23-page decision, the Court rejected plaintiff’s § 1983 deliberate indifference claims, finding no ...

On March 4, 2026, a motion for summary judgment by Matthew Messina was granted by the Hon. Charles M. Troia, Supreme Court, Richmond County.  This case involved claims of emotional distress arising from the stillbirth of an infant. The labor and delivery was managed by a private physician, but plaintiffs attempted to keep the Hospital in the case by claiming ...

HPMB is proud to share another summary judgment victory—granted in its entirety.  In this case, plaintiff alleged improper performance of an ORIF for a left displaced hip fracture and failure to diagnose and properly treat postoperative complications. Although the allegations largely targeted the codefendant hospital, plaintiff alleged that our hospital was vicariously liable via a theory ...

HPMB obtained a voluntary discontinuance for an internationally renowned spine surgeon and a premier orthopedic institution. Plaintiff alleged improper performance of surgery to address scoliosis, resulting in the need to undergo a revision procedure. After completing discovery, the defendants moved for summary judgment.  Collectively, the defendants’ experts opined that the scoliosis surgery was performed ...

HPM&B recently obtained a complete case dismissal with prejudice in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  HPM&B successfully defended a major teaching hospital in Westchester County and two of its individual attending physicians in a complex ...

HPM&B obtained a voluntary discontinuance for a major academic medical center in New York. This was a wrongful death case brought by the spouse of a 58-year-old man who required a liver transplant. Plaintiff claimed that the hospital staff negligently failed to properly screen and evaluate the donor’s liver for melanoma prior ...

HPM&B Partners Karen Grottalio, Laura Del Vecchio, and Alexandra Lopes, recently obtained a  discontinuance after moving for summary judgment on behalf of a major tristate area hospital system in a case in which Plaintiff alleged Defendants failed to diagnose the decedent’s ischemic stroke.  In its moving papers, HPM&B established that while a stroke was not ...