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The Appellate Division, Second Dept., reaffirmed that a plaintiff cannot maintain an action for “wrongful life,” in the March 17, 2009 case of Cronin v. Jamaica Hospital Center , NY Slip Op... Read More

What you don’t know about those status conference orders can really hurt you.  This is illustrated painfully in a March 19, 2009, decision, Regina Carter v. Isabella Geriatric Center, Inc. ,  NY Slip Op... Read More

An editorial in today’s New England Journal of Medicine laments the result of the Riegel v. Medtronic decision, based mostly on the NEJM’s concern that “ preemption will result in medical devices that are less... Read More

In a recent NY Times article, reporter Barry Meier discussed Medtronic’s acknowledgment that some 13 deaths have been attributed to malfunctions of a device it manufactured –a small cable, known as the Sprint Fidelis, that connects an implanted... Read More

Yesterday, I gave a presentation to a roomful of medical records adminstrators at a conference put on by Lorman .  The topic was Medical Records Law in New York, and I spoke... Read More

In early February, I posted about West Virginia physician, John A. King , who had managed to generate 124 medical malpractice lawsuits during the short time he was on staff at Putnam... Read More

Your doctor examines you, and in the process, proves himself an incompetent creep with not a hint of a bedside manner.  You’d like to share your experience online, so that... Read More

The U. S. Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited decision in Wyeth v. Levine, according to Bloomberg News ,   And the news is not good for Wyeth. The Court held that: “Federal... Read More