On March 22, 2006 Alice Silverberg was admitted to Maimonides Hospital Center in Brooklyn. Up to that point, she was an active 78 year old woman in generally good health but with a prolapsed uterus which brought her to the hospital for an elective vaginal hysterectomy.

Anamaria Guzman, M.D., attempted to anesthetize Ms. Silverberg

On October 3, 1996, Edith Schaffer, then 67 years old, voluntarily admitted herself to a small psychiatric hospital in Ossining, New York, for an episode of depression and anxiety. The next day, she suffered the first of a series of seizures and was sent to a nearby community hospital for a neurological consult and

It was a hot summer day – a great one to be off the city streets and in a cool swimming pool. So, on July 21, 1995, Jeremy Williams, an 18 year old high school senior, went to Betsy Head Pool in Brooklyn. Part of the New York City Parks department system, the pool

In August 2000, when they were two and five years old, Wendy Solis-Vicuna and her sister Yessenia moved with their father to an apartment at 6823 Ridge Boulevard, a 20 unit building in Brooklyn, New York built in the 1900’s.

The apartment was full of peeling and chipped lead paint, a well-known hazard to

A Westchester County jury recently returned a verdict of $5,000,000 in favor of the estate of a woman who died because of medical malpractice. It will not stand up on appeal.

In Schaffer v. Stony Lodge Hospital (Supreme Court, Westchester County; Index # 4155/99; 11/6/08), a 68 year old woman with long standing depression went