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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

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

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

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

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

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

loss of chance doctrine

It allows recovery when negligence reduced a patient's chance of a better outcome. "Chance" usually means the possibility of survival, recovery, or avoiding a worse injury....

res ipsa loquitur

When a parked car is found with a crushed roof under a fallen construction beam, most people do not need a long explanation to know something went badly wrong. The event speaks...

When an insurer pays for a loss, it may step into the injured person's shoes and try to collect that money back from the person or company that caused the harm. A common...

hospital-acquired infection

A patient does not need to catch an infection during surgery for it to count; if it develops during a hospital stay or from hospital care and was not present or incubating...

medication error

A medication error is a preventable mistake involving a drug's prescribing, dispensing, labeling, dosing, administration, or monitoring that can harm a patient or create a...

exclusion clause

An exclusion clause is policy language that says what an insurer will not pay for. "Policy language" matters because coverage starts with the exact words in the insurance...

failure to diagnose

A dangerous condition gets missed, treatment is delayed, and a problem that might have been manageable turns into a medical emergency. That is the basic idea behind failure to...

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

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...

You just got a letter that says a complication after surgery may have resulted from a preventable mistake. A surgical error is a mistake made before, during, or immediately...

informed consent

Permission given after a patient gets enough information to make a real choice. "Enough information" usually means the provider explains the proposed treatment or procedure,...

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...

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...

screening panel

A screening panel can affect your case value early, because it may shape whether a claim looks strong enough to settle, gets dismissed, or becomes more expensive to fight. When...