Medical Malpractice

Published on: September 9, 2015

Many Top NY Hospitals Breeding Grounds for Deadly Bacteria

Every year, our office receives calls from potential clients that checked into hospitals for routine surgical procedures, and walked out with devastating bacterial infections. Some of these infections result in lost limbs. Others prove deadly. These cases are extremely difficult to prosecute because hospitals frequently use the defense that infections can spread any place that sick and elderly patients reside.
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Published on: July 28, 2015

Disabled Teen Killed by Nursing Home’s Outrageous Conduct

By Caesar, Napoli & Spivak PLLC

Lake Forest, CA teenager Kevin Barr hasn’t had it easy. Kevin was born 25 weeks premature, and suffered throughout his life from a seizure disorder as well as cerebral palsy.

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Published on: July 23, 2015

Fraudulent Cancer Doctor Sentenced to 45 Years

By Caesar, Napoli & Spivak PLLC

“I think he’s guilty of the most cruel thing that a human being can do to another human being.”

That’s what Dr. Soe Maunglay has to say about his boss, Michigan oncologist Farid Fata, M.D., who on July 10^th was sentenced to serve 45 years in prison and forfeit $17.6 million.

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Published on: July 7, 2015

Shocking Nursing Home Case Brought to Trial

By Caesar, Napoli & Spivak PLLC

Eliza Jennings resided at The Terrace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Berea, KY from 2004 until her death in 2009, and during that time she endured unimaginable living conditions and neglect by the facility’s staff.

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Published on: June 29, 2015

A Deadly Truth About NY Hospitals

By Caesar, Napoli & Spivak PLLC

New York victims of medical negligence suffered a catastrophic blow this past Thursday, as state legislators refused to pass a “Date of Discovery” bill that has already been approved by 44 other states. “Lavern’s Law,” named after one particularly tragic medical negligence victim, would have corrected an oversight in the law as it applies to victims of medical negligence and misdiagnosis treated at New York hospitals.

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Published on: July 9, 2013

Lavern’s Law Fails to Pass in New York

By Caesar, Napoli & Spivak PLLC

In the last three years Brooklynite Lavern Wilkinson has been let down by nearly everyone she thought she could trust.

Back in February 2010 Lavern checked into Kings County Hospital with a chronic cough. The doctors ordered a chest X-ray that clearly revealed early stages of lung cancer. Only no one notified Lavern. Rather than immediately initiating treatment that may very well have saved her life, the doctors directed Lavern to take Motrin and sent her on her way.
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