Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers Birth Injury, Cerebral Palsy, Brain Injury, Wrongful Death

A trip to the gynecologist can be stressful enough for a girl without having to worry about the motives of the doctor performing the exam. Dr. Nikita Levy, suspected of filming his unwitting patients at Johns Hopkins, was facing some serious charges after a coworker blew the whistle on his activities, leading to his dismissal [...]

The Johns Hopkins Hospital has recently reported that one of its employees Dr. Nikita Levy, an OBGYN practicing there for several years  secretly photographed and videotaped his patients without their consent. The full extent of Dr. Levy’s wrongful conduct is not yet known. It is clear however that this may have some serious legal repercussions [...]

A botched operation at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin has led to the conviction of Professor Martin Corbally after the consultant pediatric surgeon failed to ensure that the proper surgery was performed on a 2-year-old girl at the Irish hospital. The child was brought into surgery in April 2010 for an upper lip frenulum [...]

About 17 years ago at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Staten Island New York, the Debes family was blessed with the birth of twin baby girls, whom they named Amanda and Stephanie. While this was a hallmark moment in their lives, it was not without its tragedy. The girls’ birth was premature. While Amanda came [...]

There is an old saying that sometimes, “the cure is worse than the disease.” While often said tongue-in-cheek about medical side-effects, this saying seems all too true for more than 100 former patients who are suing Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in New York. The complaints include many birth injury cases, and at least [...]

A malpractice case in Suffolk County, Massachusetts was settled out of court, awarding the victims $2.8 million in damages. The injured child, one of a pair of twins, was born with multiple ailments due to multiple counts of malpractice and negligence on part of the medical staff. While mediation sped up the process to reach [...]

A patient awaiting a kidney transplant will have to wait longer than expected due to a medical staff person’s mistake. To make matters worse, her brother, the donor, is now without a kidney himself, since this mistake was made after the kidney was removed. This unusual medical error happened at the University of Toledo Medical [...]

New York City has already spent over $134 million in 2012 dealing with fallout from medical mistakes. Sadly, many of these mistakes involved childbirth, often with permanently debilitating (and perfectly avoidable) consequences for the children. Take, for example, the case of Deidre Thompson. When she was having difficulties in labor, her doctor ordered a drug [...]

Looking back on last week’s article How Medical Negligence Ruins Lives Even When Damages are Paid, it’s pretty clear the kind of damage that post-surgery negligence can cause. In the case we covered, it wrecked a man’s health and destroyed his marriage. Unfortunately, this kind of negligence happens all the time. Doctors can and should [...]

Matt McCann was recently awarded $2 million in damages over a negligent care incident that left his health in shambles and his marriage destroyed. McCann had his back operated on in 2008 at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. His surgeon, Dr. Hal Hankinson, had accidentally severed a major artery in McCann’s pelvic region, as [...]