Luke M. Pittoni received a defense verdict in New York County Supreme Court on November 8, 2010 in a medical malpractice case brought against our clients, an interventional cardiologist and a major metropolitan area hospital. Plaintiff alleged that defendants negligently performed a cardiac catheterization, causing a groin infection, a hematoma and pseudoaneurysm.  The plaintiff required ...

On July 1, 2010, Charles L. Bach, Jr., received a defense verdict on behalf of a major metropolitan area medical center in the Supreme Court, Bronx County in a medical malpractice action. Plaintiff claimed that she developed serious injuries to her right arm, including Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), cellulitis thrombophlebitis, loss of range in motion ...

Elizabeth Cornacchio received a defense verdict in New York County in a medical malpractice case against a major metropolitan hospital and doctor. Plaintiff, a then 32-year-old woman, delivered at 40 weeks and 1 day after induction of labor.  Plaintiffs claimed a negligent failure to appreciate the size of the fetus (4155 grams) and the potential ...

On June 3, 2011, Madonna A. Saccoreceived a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case venued in the Bridgeport, Connecticut Supreme Court. The plaintiff alleged that our clients, a radiologist and his practice, were negligent in their care and treatment of plaintiff’s decedent in that they failed to properly interpret a chest x-ray; failed to ...

Denise Holzka obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a Staten Island obstetrician in a medical malpractice action claiming that an infant plaintiff sustained hypoxic-ischemic brain injury due to negligence during labor and delivery. Plaintiffs alleged that our client did not appropriately monitor the progress of labor and did not  appreciate the signs of fetal ...

In Fernandez v. Moskowitz, __ A.D.3d __,  925 N.Y.S.2d 476 (1st Dep’t 2011), the Appellate Division, First Department reversed the denial of a summary judgment motion and dismissed all claims against HPMB’s client, a major medical center in Manhattan, and the codefendant obstetrician-gynecologist who delivered the infant-plaintiff by emergency Caesarean section.   The Appellate Division agreed ...

The Appellate Division, Second Department has affirmed the dismissal of a medical malpractice action, holding that the Supreme Court, Westchester County properly denied plaintiff’s motion for permission to serve a late notice of claim against a municipal hospital.  In Matter of Gentile v. Westchester Medical Center, 2011 NY Slip Op 06558 (2d Dep’t Sep. 20, ...

On July 8, 2011, Daniel G. May obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a major metropolitan hospital in a wrongful death action. The case involved an injury to the ureter of a 52-year-old man during an exploratory laparotomy and Hartmann procedure with placement of a colostomy.  It was alleged that on January 13, 2007, ...

Michael Sullivan received a defense verdict on August 16, 2011 before the Honorable Duane A. Hart in Queens County Supreme Court in a medical malpractice action. Plaintiff alleged that the defendants negligently failed to properly diagnose and treat an intestinal obstruction that was being caused by retractile mesenteritis which fused her bowel inside a large, ...

HPM&B recently obtained summary judgment dismissals on behalf of a university medical center in Manhattan. In the first action, it was alleged that the infant-plaintiff suffered brain damage as a result of a fall from his bed. The infant-plaintiff had been admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of endocarditis. As the nursing staff was ...