PM&B’s Appellate Practice Group achieved one of the most significant appellate victories in New York in 2007. In DeCrescenzo v. Gonzalez, __ A.D.2d __, 847 N.Y.S.2d 236 (2d Dep’t 2007), a medical malpractice action involving a brain-damaged child, a Brooklyn judge entered a judgment totaling $14 million following a jury trial which was marked by ...

In Duffy v. Vogel, 2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 10075 (1st Dep’t 2007), Marc Hyman obtained a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case involving the alleged failure to diagnose and properly treat a malignant tumor. The trial court later granted plaintiff’s post-trial motion for a new trial on the ground that it had failed to ...

Chuck Bach successfully defended the staff of Harlem Hospital against allegations of prenatal and pediatric malpractice in a hotly-contested trial during which plaintiff’s counsel sought more than $25 million in damages. Represented by one of the most successful malpractice attorneys in the nation, plaintiff alleged that a Harlem Hospital radiologist failed to detect an abnormality ...

On February 20, 2008, Raphael J. Berman obtained a defense verdict on behalf of an obstetrical group charged with failing to bring the plaintiff in for an examination and sonogram to rule out retained products of conception following a postpartum bleeding episode. Plaintiff claimed that two weeks after giving birth via vaginal delivery, she experienced ...

On February 11, 2008, Robin R. Dolsky 7/31obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a major Manhattan medical center in a law suit brought by one of New York’s most prominent plaintiff’s medical malpractice firms. The case involved the 1999 premature delivery of the infant-plaintiff a little over a week after the plaintiff-mother was admitted to ...

Plaintiff was a 55-year-old female who claimed that our client improperly prepared her teeth for crown and bridge restorations and that the restorations were ill-fitting and inadequate. She claimed that she was not adequately restored to proper occlusion. As a result, the plaintiff claimed that she suffered loss of teeth, impairment of speech, difficulty in ...

Robert B. Gibson obtained a defense verdict in a New York County case for an obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) and a major medical center in New York City in March, 2008. The case was tried before Judge Joan B. Lobis. The case involved claims that the OB/GYN improperly performed a circumcision on the infant-plaintiff which resulted in ...

On June 26, 2008, Elizabeth Cornacchio obtained a defense verdict in the Bronx County Supreme Court on behalf of a urologist treating a patient with severe benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). Plaintiff, then 55 years old,  had had urinary problems for four years and voided approximately every two hours during the daytime and four times during the ...

Anthony M. Heller obtained a defense verdict in a leg amputation case on behalf of a podiatrist on July 28, 2008 in the Bronx County Supreme Court. Plaintiff claimed that the defendant podiatrist, who performed reconstructive rear-foot surgery after plaintiff fell two and one-half stories from a fire escape, delayed in referring him to a ...

On August 7, 2008, Peter DeNoto received a defense verdict in Supreme Court, Bronx County on behalf of a major metropolitan hospital center. The plaintiff sought damages in excess of $2 million for alleged negligent medical care at a major metropolitan medical center.  Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that the staff in the Emergency Room failed to ...