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Product Liability Tips: Protect Your Family Against Negligent Manufacturers and Retailers

Dankner Milstein, P.C. — New York’s Top Product Liability Lawyers — Recommend Use of Comprehensive Consumer Watchdog Website to Stay Safe When we go to a restaurant, or to the mall, or visit a car dealer, implicit in the experience is the assumption that the manufacturers of the products, and the people who take our money in exchange for those products, aren’t just 95 percent certain. We assume they are 100 percent certain that the products

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June 10, 2014

New York City’s “Vision Zero Action Plan” Puts Brakes on Motor Vehicle & Pedestrian Accidents

Mayor de Blasio Announces Effort To Reduce — and Possibly Eliminate — Automobile Accident and Traffic Deaths Citywide Mayor de Blasio released his administration’s Vision Zero Action Plan on February 18, 2014.  The plan outlines in detail Hizzoner’s ambitious goal to significantly reduce auto and traffic-related pedestrian accident deaths on New York City streets. In making his announcement, the mayor said that pedestrian deaths are at “epidemic proportions, and there’s nothing we’re doing that could be more

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April 30, 2014

Endless Winter in New York City Leads to More Slip & Fall Injuries

It will come as no surprise to New York City residents that winter 2014 has been one of the worst, and slipperiest, seasons on record. The relentless freezing temperatures, combined with a total of more than six feet of snow, turned icy city streets and avenues into hundreds of miles of hazardous exterior surfaces that forced city dwellers to struggle perilously against the harsh elements to try and make their way around town safely without

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April 11, 2014

Family wins lawsuit against hospital

New York physicians who deliver babies must take special precautions to ensure that the baby does not have any injuries or health problems. Even the slightest mistake can leave a newborn child with mental and physical disabilities that will last their entire lives. One Northeast family was recently awarded $55 million for the mistakes of a hospital and one of its doctors.In 2009, the family’s newborn got stuck during the delivery and his mother required

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January 8, 2014

Woman files lawsuit against hospital for failure to diagnose

Part of a medical physician’s responsibility to his patient is to determine what is causing an illness or injury. The failure to diagnose can result in severe complications for the patient and may even result in death. A woman recently filed a lawsuit against local hospitals and physicians for her health complications. The woman suffered from compartment syndrome, which results in an intense pressure in the muscles and possibly decreased blood flow. This syndrome can

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January 2, 2014

Surgical errors can cause health complications

When patients in New York hospitals go in for simple, routine procedures, they rarely think about the worst case scenario. Unfortunately, even the simplest surgery can turn into a tragedy because of surgical errors. One study found that medical errors kill over 200,000 people every year. As a result, tthe victims of these errors and their families are often forced to file medical malpractice lawsuits against the hospitals and surgeons responsible for these complications.One healthy

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December 26, 2013

Failure to diagnose leaves woman dead; hospital facing lawsuit

The heart of many medical malpractice cases in New York is the failure to diagnose a condition, which ends up being fatal. One family recently filed a lawsuit against their hospital after a loved one died from a failure to diagnose sepsis.The woman visited the hospital on back-to-back days complaining of a sore throat, but doctors discharged her. They later discovered that she had fatal bacteria in her system, but they did not call the

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December 19, 2013

ACLU questions obstetric negligence in Catholic Hospitals

Throughout the course of a woman’s pregnancy there may be various complications and situations that arise. Luckily, doctors are trained to treat these complications and keep mom and baby safe and healthy. New York mothers have a right to expect that their doctor will follow an accepted standard of care and not breach his or her duty to the patient or baby. Such a breach could result in a birth injury or harm to the

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December 12, 2013

Missed diagnoses deemed malpractice

New York patients rely on doctors and medical professionals to accurately diagnose symptoms and help prevent future health complications. Doctors don’t always catch everything and something these oversights can have enormous, even fatal consequences. Failure to diagnose breast cancer or lung cancer can allow the disease to go untreated and reach a point where treatment is not a possibility.A patient in Arizona suffered the deadly repercussions of a failure to diagnose symptoms but her family

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December 3, 2013

New York couple’s transplant derailed after leaking ceiling

It’s a lucky day when a patient who needs an organ transplant has a willing donor. It’s even more fortuitous when that donor is the patient’s spouse. One man in New York planned to receive a kidney from his wife through a living donor transplant. His wife was a match and the transplant was a go.But all of the good news quickly turned into devastation. The wife’s harvested kidney apparently sat in the operating room

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November 29, 2013

Deterring nursing home abuse with hidden cameras

Families of elderly or disabled patients may at some point have to make the difficult decision to place a loved one in a long-term care facility or nursing home. Placement in a facility may be for any number of reasons, but it certainly does not mean that friends and family stop caring about the person. In fact, families are so concerned about avoiding any instances of abuse or neglect in these facilities that they have

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November 20, 2013

New York woman loses legs as result of routine surgery sues

Accepting responsibility and apologizing in any circumstances does not always repair the damage done but it certainly can help move toward recovery. Unfortunately, a New York hospital in Long Island is not only refusing to accept responsibility for their actions but they are telling an injured patient that she should be thankful for what they did.The 33-year-old patient went into the hospital for a procedure to remove an ectopic pregnancy. During the procedure, the woman

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November 14, 2013
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