HPM&B recently obtained pre-answer dismissal, with prejudice, as to a hospital and teaching institution. Plaintiff commenced the medical malpractice action against several defendants as a Proposed Administrator. In her complaint, plaintiff asserted causes of action against our clients for negligence, medical malpractice, exemplary/punitive damages, informed consent, and negligence – right to know. In our motion, we argued that ...

HPM&B recently received a summary judgment order dismissing claims against an orthopedic surgeon and his practice group. Plaintiff alleges that defendants caused and delayed the diagnosis of a post-procedure infection and failed to appreciate the significance of her alleged suture allergy. HPM&B demonstrated that plaintiff had undergone other surgeries both before and after the procedure at issue, all of which ...

HPM&B Partner Doreen Dufficy secured a dismissal in United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Plaintiff alleged that he sustained permanent hearing loss because defendants were deliberately indifferent to his health, safety, welfare, and medical needs under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the United States Constitution, including the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments; ...

HPM&B Partner Doreen Dufficy and Senior Associate Gabrielle Apfel recently secured a summary judgment dismissal. Summary Judgment was granted in United States District Court, Eastern District of New York in a case where plaintiff alleged that our client, a Physician’s Assistant, was deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs under 42 U.S.C. §1983 with respect to ...

HPM&B Partners Denise Holzka and Doreen Dufficy and Senior Associate Mandy Nguyen recently secured summary judgment dismissal on behalf of an Internal Medicine Physician and two Physician Groups in a case venued in Richmond County. Plaintiff alleged the defendants were negligent in failing to diagnose a patient with HIV. HPM&B moved on causation with support from an expert ...

Congratulations to Partner Rachel Bloom and Of Counsel Joseph Randazzo on securing a discontinuance after filing a motion for summary judgment on behalf of a Board-certified Plastic Surgeon and his practice in a case venued in Queens County Supreme Court.  Plaintiff alleged the surgeon negligently performed a blepharoplasty by removing too much eyelid skin or ...

HPM&B recently obtained summary judgment dismissal after moving to reargue for our client, a renowned New York City major hospital system.  Plaintiff alleged that the hospital’s staff, including co-defendant emergency medicine attending, failed to diagnose and treat a left eye globe rupture  in the emergency department after a fall one day earlier.  Plaintiff alleged that ...

HPM&B Partners Denise Holzka and Doreen Dufficy and Of Counsel Megan Verbos recently secured a discontinuance after filing a motion for summary judgment on behalf of an OB/GYN resident and Hospital in a case venued in Bronx County.  Plaintiff alleged negligent care during labor and delivery and subsequent care provided in the neonatal intensive care unit ...

HPM&B is honored to announce that two of our senior partners, Charles Bach and Andrew Neubardt, both top-tier medical malpractice trial attorneys, recently spoke at the New York State Judicial Institute’s 2025 Medicine for Judges Seminar. This annual seminar provided New York judges with critical insights into medical malpractice and personal injury litigation, including analysis of ...

On February 3, 2025, HPM&B Partner Denise Holzka obtained a unanimous defense verdict in Supreme Court, New York County in a wrongful death case after a two week trial. The decedent, a 52-year-old attorney and single mother of an adopted 12-year-old daughter, claimed that the defendant gynecologist failed to timely diagnose a mucosal vulva melanoma ...