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 ...

HPM&B Attorneys Karen Grottalio and Natalie Hermon recently secured summary judgment dismissal in favor of our clients, a cardiologist, a neurologist, and a major metropolitan hospital.  Plaintiff alleged our clients failed to recognize and timely treat a stroke, leading to significant deficits.  Ms. Grottalio and Ms. Herman moved for summary judgment dismissal, and their motion ...

Congratulations to HPM&B Attorneys Gabrielle DeYoung and Natalie Hermon for obtaining summary judgment dismissal in a case involving a pedestrian automobile accident.  Plaintiff alleged a pothole in the roadway was created by our client, which caused him to pull over to the side of the road to check his tires.  While he was leaning into ...

Congratulations to HPM&B Attorneys Rachel Bloom, Adam Kaufman and Joseph Randazzo on securing summary judgment dismissal  in favor  of a prominent plastic surgeon and his practice in a medical malpractice case venued  in Bronx County Supreme Court. Plaintiff claimed our client failed to properly treat an ankle fracture, resulting in wound dehiscence,  scarring,  and other ...

Congratulations to Partner Laura S. Murphy and Of Counsel Joseph Randazzo for securing a dismissal in Supreme Court, Bronx County, in a podiatric malpractice action.  After the court tolerated many years of delay due to plaintiff’s slow prosecution of the action, plaintiff passed away.  The pattern of delay continued as an estate representative was not ...

On June 26, 2025, HPM&B Partner Patricia Thornton obtained a defense verdict in Supreme Court, New York County in a medical malpractice case after an almost 9-week trial.  The plaintiff claimed that between April 2017 and June 2017, the defendant pain management physician was negligent in treating her for chronic lower back pain and a ...

HPM&B attorneys John McNaboe and Christina Reinle recently obtained summary judgment dismissal of an action on behalf of a Cardiologist. Plaintiff alleged that the Cardiologist failed to appreciate plaintiff’s non-mobility due to underlying cardiac disease, failed to identify him as a high fall risk, and failed to advise nurses and staff at the hospital that ...

Congratulations to Partner Rachel Bloom, Of Counsel Corey Schmidt, and Associate Elise DeNatale, Esq. for securing a complete dismissal in a complex tort action in Nassau County Supreme Court. The case, brought by  pro se  plaintiffs residing outside the United States, involved highly unusual claims arising from alleged child abduction, asylum fraud, forgery, and child ...