HPM&B Attorneys Darshan Patel, Graham Musynske, and Joseph Randazzo successfully obtained summary judgment in a high exposure and high sympathy case in Kings County Supreme Court. The case involved allegations that the staff at our long term care center failed to prevent the choking and asphyxiation of a 56-year-old patient with bipolar schizophrenia.  ...

HPM&B Partners Michael Sullivan and Matthew Messina obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a Supreme Court, Nassau County medical malpractice case on February 21, 2023 after a two week trial. The plaintiff was 35 years old and underwent a left labyrinthectomy surgery in September 2013 for the treatment of intractable vertigo and related symptoms. ...

Raphael Berman, Joseph Shmulewitz and Mandy Nguyen recently obtained summary judgment dismissal on behalf of an attending orthopedist in a medical malpractice case venued in Queens County Supreme Court. The plaintiff-mother claimed a failure to diagnose and treat her daughter’s osteosarcoma (bone cancer) of the left leg, resulting in multiple surgeries and a leg length discrepancy. ...

HPM&B recently obtained summary judgment dismissal of all claims against a defendant orthopedic surgeon in Supreme Court, Westchester County. Plaintiff alleged malpractice in connection with a drop foot injury following a total hip replacement surgery. HPM&B successfully argued that the surgery was indicated and properly performed and that the post-operative care and treatment was ...

HPM&B recently obtained summary judgment dismissal of all claims against a defendant property owner and general contractor in a Labor Law case venued in the Supreme Court, New York County. The laborer-plaintiff claimed to have sustained injury when he tripped and fell over an unguarded wooden cleat at a construction site in Manhattan. In ...

Congratulations to Denise Holzka and Denise Graziano on obtaining summary judgment dismissal on behalf of all defendants in a fertility case before Justice John Kelley in New York County Supreme Court.  Plaintiff claimed that our facility negligently performed an egg retrieval on a 40-year-old patient and that the resulting fertilization, freezing, grading, and storage ...

Alejandra Gil, a Partner in our White Plains office, recently obtained a finding of no liability on behalf of a Bronx nursing and rehabilitation center at an arbitration conducted by NAM arbitrator Jaqueline Stein, Esq. Plaintiff claimed that the decedent-resident fell due to a loose handrail in her bathroom, and inadequate care plans to ...

Alejandra Gil, a Partner in our White Plains office, recently obtained summary judgment in a negligence action venued in Kings County. Plaintiff was injured when she fell out of her wheelchair while riding in an ambulette. Plaintiff claimed that her fall was due to the negligence of her personal assistant, a co-defendant. Plaintiff further ...

Congratulations to Partner Rachel S. Bloom and Associate Graham Musynske on obtaining dismissal of all claims against a major metropolitan hospital in a case venued in Suffolk County, New York.  The case involved a bilateral breast reduction surgery performed by plaintiff’s private plastic surgeon. Plaintiff alleged the hospital negligently performed surgery and failed to ...

Congratulations to Partners Denise Holzka and Katherin Crossling and Of Counsel Jason Barrer on obtaining a full dismissal of all claims against their clients via summary judgment in a quadrilateral amputation medical malpractice action venued in New York County.  The team aggressively defended two urologists and a large New York tertiary care hospital in ...