Yourlawyer.com (Personal Injury Lawyer News) http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/personal_injury_lawyer Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:36:26 -0800 pixel-app en City Paid $570 Million In Personal Injury Lawsuits In 2004 http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/9375 Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/9375
The cases cost the city $12 million more than last year and medical malpractice cases made up nearly a third of the jury verdicts and settlements paid out.

City Tort Chief Fay Leoussis said hospitals treat people in uneasy circumstances. She told the New York Post they "are going to create a certain percentage of high-end cases, it's just the volume."

The payouts included $6.9 million in the case of Joel Fernandez, an 11-month-old gastrointestinal surgery patient who was discharged from Metropolitan Hospital Center although he had a serious infection.

His mother then took him to Lincoln Hospital, where doctors failed to diagnose the sepsis infection, which led to serious brain damage.

Also, $5.15 million to Daury Espinal who went to Bellevue Hospital to treat nosebleeds he kept getting after a motorcycle accident. His lawyer said doctors did not treat a pseudoaneurysm in a brain artery and later also suffered brain damage.

Leoussis said the increase was caused the city settling more cases faster and cutting the backlog down and also because appellate courts are letting more expensive verdicts stand.]]> New York Personal Injury Lawyer - New York Accident Injury Attorney http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/personal_injury_lawyer Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/personal_injury_lawyer Leaders in Personal Injury Litigation Parker & Waichman, LLP is a top rated New York Personal injury law firm with offices in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey. Our team of aggressive personal injury lawyers represent victims of car accidents, medical malpractice, general negligence, construction accidents, and wrongful death throughout the United States. If you have been injured, please contact a lawyer at Parker & Waichman, LLP today for a free legal consultation.

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