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You signed a consent form, not a free pass for a Brooklyn hospital to butcher the wrong knee

A wrong-knee replacement in Brooklyn is not excused by a consent form, and the timeline from your first shock to the hospital's credentialing failures matters more than most patients realize.

ARTICLE by Frank DeLuca

An $8 million care plan isn't fantasy when a Brooklyn surgeon leaves a wire behind

A retained guide wire after a cardiac procedure can turn one hospital mistake into years of unpaid caregiving, and most families have no idea how future-care damages are actually built.

ARTICLE by Frank DeLuca

A spinal tap and ER transfer should have happened; Brooklyn chart edits and "pre-existing" blame came instead

A Brooklyn student with missed meningitis signs and a later bowel perforation case can get buried under chart edits and pre-existing-condition blame fast, especially when the policy is $1 million and the care plan is four times that.

ARTICLE by Priya Sharma

What deadlines apply to malpractice claims against Brooklyn public hospitals?

The shortest deadline can be just 90 days. That is the trap in New York malpractice claims against government-run hospitals. If the hospital is part of NYC Health + Hospitals -...

How do I prove lack of informed consent after a Brooklyn ER discharge?

What the insurance company does not want you to know about this is that signing discharge papers is not a waiver, and in New York an informed consent claim turns on very...

How do I get hospital records in Brooklyn before it's too late?

Everyone says "just ask for your records," but actually waiting on records can wreck a New York malpractice case. Worst case: you spend weeks calling a Brooklyn hospital, get...

She survived the ICU, now the real fight is whether Brooklyn drags this out for years

Why a Brooklyn nursing home malpractice case over stage 4 bedsores, untreated UTI, and urosepsis might settle fast or turn into a five-year war.

ARTICLE by Colleen Murphy

Still dealing with a Brooklyn ER mistake years later how do I pick a lawyer?

Everyone says "if it happened years ago, no lawyer will touch it," but actually New York malpractice deadlines are more nuanced than most people assume. Most people think a...

What the lawyer found in the labor notes after that 40-minute Brooklyn delay

Signing a consent form is not the same thing as consenting to a dangerous delay, and the records from labor and delivery usually tell that story fast.

ARTICLE by Carmen Ortiz

Still sick after a Brooklyn medication mix-up two years ago am I too late?

It depends - but you may still have a claim, and the deadline may be very close or already different depending on who caused the error. In New York, claims against a doctor or...

Another Brooklyn doctor reviewed the chart and saw the burn notes had moved

A second review of the electronic chart can show whether a Brooklyn hospital documented a warming-device burn in real time or cleaned it up later and blamed the family for missed visits.

ARTICLE by David Goldstein

Are they lowballing me because the doctor's insurance won't cover the real damage?

Maybe - and the better question is whether that policy is the only money in play. New York has no cap on pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice cases, and that...

Routine extraction should have ended with a numb mouth for hours - not a dead call button and permanent lip damage

A Brooklyn patient can still build a malpractice case when a routine dental procedure turns into permanent nerve damage, the call button goes unanswered during an asthma attack, and parts of the chart mysteriously vanish.

ARTICLE by Colleen Murphy

How much is a Brooklyn ER malpractice case worth?

What the insurance company does not want you to know is that New York usually does not make ER cases harder by requiring "gross negligence" just because the mistake happened in...

Is New York screwing me with structured payouts instead of full malpractice compensation?

$250,000 is the threshold that triggers a lot of this confusion in New York. The common mistake is thinking the insurer invented a scam because a big malpractice award is not...

Years after Brooklyn surgery, can I still sue if they left something inside me?

Retained-sponge and retained-instrument cases in New York often land in the high six figures or more. The insurance company will tell you that you "waited too long," that your...

Should I accept bad luck or pursue malpractice after a Brooklyn surgery went wrong?

No - because the insurance company will tell you a bad surgical result is a known risk, your consent form covered it, and a complication alone is not malpractice. What is...

Will waiting to avoid retaliation make me miss New York malpractice deadlines?

Yes. In nearby Pennsylvania, the general malpractice deadline is usually 2 years; in New York, it is usually 2 years and 6 months. That sounds like breathing room, but if the...

step-down provision

The trap is that coverage may look generous on the declarations page, but a hidden clause can cut those limits way down for certain drivers, vehicles, or situations. A...

declarations page

What trips people up most is that the declarations page is not the whole insurance policy. It is the quick-summary page, usually near the front, that lists the basic facts of...