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(Standing, from left, Anthony M. Heller, Robin R. Dolsky, Daniel S. Ratner, Charles L. Bach, Jr., Elizabeth Cornacchio. Sitting, Luke M. Pittoni and Rosary A. Morelli) Click here to read the announcement

Ms. Cornacchio is this year’s Program Chair at DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Seminar taking place February 11-12, 2010 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.  The program includes topics of interest to clients, professionals, in-house counsel, defense attorneys and risk management personnel and is now the “standard of care” for burgeoning issues and ...

May 24, 2006, New York City BarRosary A. Morelli participated in a panel discussion entitled “Prescription for Improving the Way Health Care and Legal Systems Deal with Unanticipated Outcomes in Medical Care”More Information March 1, 2006, Phoenix, AZDenise A. Holzka participated in DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Seminar held at the Pointe Hilton ...

Ms. Holzka was a guest speaker at DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Seminar taking place February 11-12, 2010 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.  On February 12, 2010, Denise lectures on The Learned Intermediary:  What?  Me Worry?   A case against a major pharmaceutical company is being hotly contested and a garden variety practitioner and prescriber ...

New York’s Chief Judge Judith Kaye has appointed Steve Seidman to the Board of Trustees of the New York Lawyers Assistance Trust. The trust provides statewide leadership and financial assistance to programs for the treatment and prevention of alcohol and substance dependency among lawyers, judges and law students in New York State. This is an ...

Marc Hyman authored the chapter entitled “Deposing the Plaintiff” in the recently published 2009 Third Edition of the New York State Bar Association’s treatise “Medical Malpractice in New York”. The chapter discusses how the plaintiff’s deposition can be used to investigate and promote the successful defense of a medical malpractice case, including preparation for, approaches ...

Elizabeth Cornacchio offered her insights about cross-examining plaintiff’s expert economist at the annual DRI Medical Liability and Healthcare Seminar in Las Vegas in March, 2004. …Full Announcement

Appellate Partner Daniel Ratner authored the chapter on post trial motions in a book titled, “The Trial of a Civil Action,” to be published by the New York State Bar Association. …Full Announcement

Luke Pittoni presented a lecture entitled “Fetal Asphyxia: A Medico-Legal Guide” during the Reducing the Risk of Obstetric Malpractice Conference in San Francisco on November 20-21, 2003. The presentation covered issues relevant to fetal asphyxia, such as definition and diagnosis, prediction of such an event during labor, newborn assessment and cranial imaging of fetal asphyxia, ...

Haiti’s Capital City of Port-Au-Prince was devastated by Tuesday’s earthquake. HPM&B supports Doctors Without Borders, who are providing emergency medical care for the men, women, and children affected by the earthquake in Haiti.  With limited water and medical supplies, Haiti is in a crisis and we hope that our efforts, along with those of you ...