On June 25, 2015, David Robertson obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a nursing facility and rehabilitation center in a medical malpractice case tried in Connecticut. The plaintiff had alleged that its decedent, an elderly woman who was admitted to the facility and receiving physical therapy, fell while at the facility sustaining a left ...

Michael Sullivan obtained a defense verdict in a Supreme Court, Queens County podiatric malpractice case on June 16, 2015.  Plaintiff was 55-years-old when she underwent bunion and hammertoe surgery on her right foot by the defendant in February 2011.  Approximately three weeks after surgery, plaintiff developed signs of an infection at the site of her ...

Michael Sullivan obtained a directed verdict in a Supreme Court, Kings County dental malpractice case on March 3, 2015.   The 49-year-old plaintiff underwent a tooth extraction by the defendant and claimed that the extraction was unnecessary.  She claimed that the defendant should have offered root canal therapy as a treatment alternative and failed to ...

On May 27, 2015, Vincent L. Gallo obtained a defense verdict on behalf of an obstetrician in a medical malpractice action venued in Queens County, New York.  Plaintiff alleged that the infant-plaintiff’s catastrophic brain damage was caused by the medical negligence of the defendant obstetrician.  The plaintiff-mother had presented to the hospital at approximately 37 ...

On May 22, 2015, the eve of jury selection, Peter DeNoto and his team obtained a discontinuance of all claims for “wrongful birth” against a prominent and well-respected nurse midwife that practices and teaches midwifery at a renowned institutional medical center.  In this Albany County case, the parents claimed that had they known that their ...

All claims against an acclaimed medical center discontinued on May 11, 2005 after we moved to dismiss them because the plaintiff failed to report the claims as potential assets when he filed for bankruptcy.    In this Nassau County action, then 41-year-old plaintiff claimed that a neurosurgeon and the staff at the medical center negligently ...

All claims on behalf of a neurologically impaired infant against a prominent New York hospital and obstetrical resident were discontinued at jury selection on March 2, 2015.  In this Nassau County action, plaintiffs claimed that the treating attending obstetrician, obstetrical resident, and hospital staff negligently completed a vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery rather than perform a Cesarean ...

Peter DeNoto and his team obtained a discontinuance of all claims against a prominent long-term care center on January 7, 2015.  In this Nassau County case, then 79-year-old deceased-plaintiff was injured on December 22, 2009 while crossing Sunrise Highway in Nassau County.  She was struck by a motor vehicle owned and operated by co-defendants, and ...

Peter DeNoto obtained a defense verdict in Nassau County on December 17, 2014.  Then 52-year-old plaintiff presented to an acclaimed medical center for a hysterectomy after previously undergoing colon resection surgery at a different hospital.   Both plaintiff and her husband claimed that during the hysterectomy, a gynecologic surgeon and a general surgeon negligently failed ...

Peter DeNoto obtained a mid-trial dismissal on behalf of a well-known medical institution in a neurologically impaired infant case pending in Nassau County on February 28, 2014.  Plaintiffs claimed that the defendant obstetricians negligently performed an external cephalic version, negligently failed to timely perform a Cesarean section (“C-section”) delivery, and negligently performed the C-section delivery.  ...