On September 18, 2002 Thomas Pyle was a tile setter’s helper working on the construction of a 48 story residential apartment building in Manhattan that came to be known as 220 Riverside Drive.
Mr. Pyle, then 47 years old, tripped and fell onto his left
On April 14, 2005 Adina Raso, then 14 years old, had two impacted wisdom teeth extracted by an oral surgeon in Stony Brook.
A week or so later, Adina noticed that she was experiencing paresthesia (numbness) and had no sensation or taste on the left side of her tongue and the gums of her lower
Susan Skelly-Hand was pregnant with her second child when, on February 25, 1996 at about 12:15 p.m., her water broke and her husband drove her to the hospital in Potsdam, New York. There, she met Jose Lizardi, M.D., the obstetrician who, two years earlier, delivered her first child. At 8:15 p.m. Rachel Elizabeth Hand was
In December 2009, we wrote, here, about Diarassouba v. Urban, a fascinating and long-winding medical malpractice case of a 32 year old math professor at Manhattan Community College who ended up with nerve damage and RSD (a chronic, painful neurologic condition often presenting as a burning sensation) affecting his right leg after unrelated
On August 9, 2006, an electrical fire broke out destroying oral surgeon Gideon Kay’s offices in a house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens.
Here is the actual home of the dental practice as it appeared shortly after the fire:
Within days, Dr. Kay sent letters to his patients advising them of the fire and
He was a tough 47 year old steel cutter employed for many years at the Goodyear-Dunlop plant in Tonawanda, New York (the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area) when in 2004 he noticed his right arm was swelling. After visits to a local ER and his primary care doctor, Richard Winiarski ended up seeing a vascular surgeon
It’s not an uncommon situation in the ever-uncertain world of jury deliberations in personal injury and medical malpractice cases in New York and nationwide. After years of litigation, months of trial preparation and weeks of trial testimony, the jury is deliberating and each side again assesses its strengths and weaknesses. A settlement is finally discussed
On December 26, 2003, a 37 year old nurse was involved in a car accident at an intersection in the Bronx when a Salvation Army van slammed into her car causing a herniated disc in her neck andnerve damage to her right arm.
It wasn’t this van but probably one similar:
The van
On April 13, 2003, Sergeant Michael Lauro of the New York City Police Department was performing a station-house security check at his precinct when he slipped and fell in a puddle of water.
After minor treatment, he was diagnosed with a rib fracture (which healed) and back pain. Unfortunately, the back pain never got
Nine years after the fact and 2 1/2 years after the jury verdict, all of the parties in a medical malpractice case have been ordered back to court for a retrial because of the trial judge’s error in refusing to ask the jurors individually whether in fact their unanimous, individually signed written jury verdict exonerating