Cancer Misdiagnosis: Preventable & Terrifying
Medical misdiagnosis is dangerous and scary, and this negligence can lead to a more severe diagnosis down the road. Cancer is one of the medical conditions that can be incorrectly diagnosed. If your doctor has evaluated your symptoms incorrectly or failed to test for your symptoms to accurately determine your condition, this is called “failure Read More »
Cerebral Palsy Due to Medical Malpractice
Around 10% of children are born with Cerebral Palsy. Some of them get the disease due to genetics or premature birth. However, at times, it is a result of medical malpractice. If it is Cerebral Palsy due to medical malpractice, you should know that you have all the right in the world to have the Read More »
New York City Area Hospitals Are Either Making People Sick or Killing Them
In an exclusive interview with New York Post’s Melkorka Licea, a pediatrician who spent three years as a resident in the Coney Island Hospital spoke out anonymously about the frightening conditions children face in this 371-bed facility. This doctor listed chronic negligence, unqualified care and poor supervision as some of the issues that are responsible Read More »
Deadly Drugs, Like the One Responsible for the Death of Prince, Fraudulently Marketed to an Unsuspecting Public
This month New York Times reporter, Katie Thomas, covers the indictment of two sales representatives from the drug company Insys for their involvement in essentially paying doctors to prescribe the opioid-based painkiller, Subsys. Designed to be prescribed for cancer patients only, the drug actually found its way into the hands of millions of others. In Read More »
New Study Finds Shocking Numbers Die in Hospitals Due to Medical Errors
While insurance companies have fought for laws to make medical malpractice cases more and more difficult for lawyers to bring to suit, the fact is hundreds of thousands of people are dying from medical mistakes each year and many more are being seriously injured. A recent article entitled, Medical Error May Be Third Leading cause Read More »
NYC Lawyers Win $5 Million Verdict for Medical Malpractice
Our client suffered a stroke and was left unattended for six hours in a hospital emergency room hallway. The ER doctor ordered a CAT scan, but hospital employees said that the CAT scanner was not operating properly. The patient was finally transferred to another hospital, where the stroke was diagnosed and an operation was performed Read More »
Two NYC Medical Malpractice Cases Our Law Firm Has Won Millions For Clients
Ronemus & Vilensky, has won millions of dollars for their clients who have been seriously injured by mistakes made by doctors, hospitals, medical technicians and staff in spite of the fact that medical malpractice cases are increasingly difficult to prove to a jury. So influenced by the insurance companies that everyone who has been seriously Read More »
5 Tips For Hiring The Best Medical Malpractice Attorney
$1.25 Million Settlement for Erb’s Palsy
In this case, the injured baby’s mother claimed that the delivering physician failed to take measures to prevent severe injury. Instead, when the baby wouldn’t arrive, the doctor applied excessive traction and twisted the baby’s head, which damaged the nerves leading from the spinal cord to the baby’s arm. Nerve graft surgery, using a nerve Read More »
New York’s Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations and Lavern’s Law
New York’s medical malpractice statute of limitations is designed to protect the medical profession from having to take responsibility for the most grievous of medical malpractice errors. However, because New York is one of six states that does not have a “date of discovery” statute that starts the statue of limitations period from the date Read More »
