HPM&B Partner Gabrielle DeYoung and Associate Alex J. Paez recently obtained discontinuances for our client, a major utility company, after moving for summary judgment in three related matters. The matters stemmed from a fire that occurred in January 2012 while the Plaintiffs were attaching tiles to the walls of an unventilated recording studio with a contact ...

HPM&B was recently granted dismissal of claims brought by a plaintiff-wife and plaintiff-daughter for medical malpractice, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and intentional infliction of emotional distress against a major healthcare network. This case was venued in Supreme Court, Rockland County. HPM&B filed a motion to dismiss arguing that the plaintiffs failed to set forth viable causes ...

HPM&B recently obtained dismissal of all claims on behalf of an attending internist and a major hospital system in New York. This medical malpractice action was venued in Supreme Court, Rockland County and involved allegations that the defendants failed to properly manage COVID-19. Specifically, plaintiff claimed negligent oxygenation, inadequate essential nutrition, and improper and untimely pulmonology ...

We are thrilled to announce that Cynthia B. Robinson has joined our esteemed firm, Heidell Pittoni Murphy & Bach, as a Partner specializing in medical malpractice law. With nearly two decades of dedicated experience in the New York City metro area, Cynthia has built a reputation for her unwavering commitment to achieving the best results ...

HPM&B recently obtained summary judgment dismissal for our client, a major hospital network, in a slip-and-fall case. Plaintiff alleged that she sustained an injury when she slipped and fell in the PACU of our client’s hospital facility. The defense moved for summary judgment with the support of four hospital witnesses all of which established that ...

HPM&B recently obtained a unanimous defense verdict in Supreme Court, Westchester County, on behalf of a major Hospital network on a case that was transferred to our Firm for trial two months earlier. It was alleged that an employed gastroenterologist negligently placed a feeding tube. Plaintiff further claimed that the negligent placement caused the feeding ...

HPM&B recently obtained summary judgment dismissal for our client, a renowned NYC hospital system, in a wrongful death case. Plaintiff alleged that the hospital’s emergency room staff failed to diagnose and treat pulmonary emboli during four emergency department presentations in the same month. The defense moved for summary judgment with the support of a board-certified ...

HPM&B Partner Michael Sullivan and associate Natalie Hermon obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a Supreme Court, Nassau County medical malpractice case on June 20, 2024 after a two week trial. Plaintiff was 52 years old when he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor at his ileocecal valve in December 2018, by the defendant ...

HPM&B recently obtained a unanimous defense verdict in Supreme Court, Westchester County, on behalf of a hospitalist who was affiliated with a major Hospital network. Plaintiff alleged that the hospitalist was negligent in her care and treatment of the plaintiff by improperly prescribing certain medication to help stabilize his blood pressure. Plaintiff further claimed that ...