HPM&B attorney John P. McNaboe successfully moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the widow and the estate of the boxer Beethavean Scottland, who died following a bout on the U.S.S. Intrepid in 2001. Denise Scottland alleged that two ringside physicians failed their common-law duty to exercise reasonable care by stopping the fatal fight. In the ...

Vincent Gallo recently obtained a defense verdict in New York County on behalf of two vascular surgeons who evaluated a patient following a vein-stripping and ligation surgery. Plaintiff sued twelve individual defendants claiming that each were responsible for medical malpractice leading to the below-the-knee amputation of a 41-year-old woman in January of 2000. Plainitff previously ...

Robert Gibson and Gillian Thomas successfully moved for summary judgment dismissal of a wrongful death case alleging negligent care at a long term care facility. The elderly decedent was admitted to our client’s long term care facility with many medical complications, including advanced dementia, chronic renal failure, and peripheral vascular disease with absent pulses in ...

Austa S. Devlin won a defense verdict in New York Supreme Court, Queens County, on behalf of an orthopedist who treated a patient with a fracture of the lateral posterior tibial plateau. The defendant treated her conservatively, with immobilization and physical therapy. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant failed to properly immobilize the leg, and ...

Robin R. Dolsky won a defense verdict representing one of our major Long Island Hospitals and its Chief of Cardiology and the Director of Cardiac Catheterization Lab. Plaintiff, a 43-year-old Physicians’ Assistant with a major blockage of the left anterior descending artery, claimed that he had to undergo bypass surgery because of negwligence during a ...

Raphael J. Berman recently obtained a defense verdict in a wrongful death action in Queens County Supreme Court on behalf of a cardiologist who was requested to render a consultation on a patient who had a longstanding history of severe rheumatoid arthritis. The patient had been admitted with sinus tachycardia and bilateral leg edema. Plaintiff ...

On December 27, 2005, the Appellate Division affirmed the dismissal of a punitive damages claim against our client, a major manufacturer of MRI machines, in a highly-publicized suit arising from the tragic death of a young boy when a ferrous oxygen tank was drawn into the machine’s magnetic field. HPM&B’s Appellate Practice Group successfully argued ...

On January 25, 2007, Robert Gibson, obtained a defense verdict in New York County Supreme Court on behalf of an ophthalmologist and a major laser eye surgery center. The plaintiff claimed that the ophthalmologist and facility committed malpractice in performing bilateral LASEK vision correction surgery and a subsequent enhancement surgery as the plaintiff was not ...

Darshan I. Patel successfully obtained Summary Judgment dismissal on behalf of a major metropolitan hospital in a case in which plaintiff, a former New York City police officer, alleged that our client failed to properly treat and discharge a psychiatric patient. The patient, who suffered from Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia and had a violent felony history, ...

Karen T. Grottalio, with the assistance of associate Laura S. Murphy, Esq., successfully obtained a decision denying plaintiff’s order to show cause why she should not be permitted to file a late notice of claim on behalf of her infant allegedly injured as a neonate at a local hospital. Although the Court required two separate ...