On April 8, 2014, in a case tried by Charles L. Bach, Jr., a New York County jury found no departure on the part of a prominent hand surgeon who was accused of drilling four Kirschner wires or stainless steel pins into a healthy bone of plaintiff. At trial, plaintiff claimed that he was forced ...

Charles L. Bach, Jr., assisted by senior associate Erin K. Kelley, successfully defended a pediatric neurologist in a complex malpractice case in which the plaintiff mother alleged that the treating neurologist failed to diagnose a Chiari I malformation in her then 14-year-old son. The plaintiff contended that if the defendant had made the proper diagnosis, ...

HPM&B recently obtained summary judgment on behalf of a major academic center where plaintiff claimed the hospital failed to prevent the development of a sacral pressure ulcer that eventually became infected causing the patient’s death. The patient had been admitted to the hospital by his private attending vascular surgeon to undergo an endovascular surgery to ...