HPM&B congratulates its former Senior Trial Partner, Marc Hyman, who is being honored at Trail Blazers’ Annual Spring Benefit tomorrow evening. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Hyman has served on the Trail Blazers’ Board, including serving as a Co-Chair, and he has provided leadership, guidance, and support to ensure that countless young people would ...

HPM&B was pleased to sponsor the Association for Healthcare Risk Management of New York, Inc.’s (“AHRMNY”) 2023 conference held on June 2 at City Winery in New York City. Partners Denise Holzka, Katherin Crossling and Doreen Dufficy attended and enjoyed a great day of learning and networking!

HPM&B Partner Charles Bach obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a medical negligence case on behalf of a skilled hand surgeon who was named as a defendant by the plaintiffs. The case was tried in New York County Supreme Court. Mr. Bach was assisted by Of Counsel Jason Barrer during the course of this lengthy ...

HPMB Obtains Summary Judgment on behalf of Hospital and Emergency Room Physician on Appeal   Reversing a lower court, the Appellate Division, First Department awarded summary judgment in favor of a major NY metropolitan area hospital and an emergency room physician, ruling that the plaintiff raised a new theory of liability – the alleged failure to ...

HPM&B recently defended an interventional neuroradiologist at trial in a medical malpractice case in Supreme Court, Bronx County.  The case involved an endovascular procedure to re-stent and coil an ophthalmic artery aneurysm, which was complicated by an ischemic stroke resulting in dense, right-sided hemiplegia.  The plaintiff was 31-years-old at the time of the procedure.  During ...

HPM&B Partner David Robertson and Associate Gabriella Ruggiero obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a medical negligence case on behalf of a skilled nursing facility and the three individual nurses who were named as defendants by the plaintiff estate. The case was tried in Connecticut Superior Court. The plaintiff’s decedent was a 90-year-old ...

Laura S. Murphy and Joseph Randazzo recently obtained summary judgment dismissal on behalf of a podiatrist in Bronx County Supreme Court. Plaintiff alleged that the defendants improperly performed  an ankle surgery, tendon repair, and Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) lesion repair upon plaintiff, resulting in the need for subsequent surgery, permanent pain, and limited motion of the foot ...

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. ...