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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...

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

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...

captain of the ship doctrine

After a surgery goes badly, the worst surprise is learning that the person who led the operation may not automatically be legally responsible for every mistake made in the...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

delayed diagnosis

You just got a letter that says a cancer, stroke, infection, or fracture was not identified when it should have been, and now the treatment is harder, riskier, or less likely...

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...