New York Malpractice & Injury Lawyer Blog

A woman has been awarded $1.75 million dollars by a Jefferson County Circuit Court in a medical malpractice case after deliberating for approximately three hours.

According to court documents, Angela Thornton filed suit against Dr. Shabir Dharamsey, alleging that he implanted an internal cardiac defibrillator that was medically unnecessary.

Attorneys for the plaintiff asserted that Thornton did not have any previous history of a heart condition or a cardiac condition that would require her to have the device implanted at the time of the surgery which took place in November 2010.

A woman has filed a malpractice lawsuit against her husband’s doctors and the hospital where he was treated. She alleges that malpractice resulted in her husband’s wrongful death.

The lawsuit brought by Stephanie Kleinman alleges that while under the medical care of the named defendants, Gary Klienman was cleared for a surgical procedure in spite of having both abnormal results in a pre-surgical stress test and an abnormal EKG test.

The plaintiff in the malpractice lawsuit further claims that her husband did not receive a proper angioplasty/stent procedure or angiography. Further, the defendants allegedly neglected to provide proper standard of care after he operation which ultimately led to Kleinman’s death on August 28th, 2013.

Three people have been convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and five counts of healthcare fraud by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force.

According to court records, Yaroslav “Steven” Proshak, Emilia Zverev, and Sharetta Michelle Wallace were connected to and convicted in the case. Proshak is the owner and operator of Los Angeles-based ProMed Medical Transportation, an ambulance transportation company providing Medicare beneficiaries with non-emergency ambulance transportation. Zverev was a billing manager and Wallace supervised emergency medical technicians (EMTs) for ProMed.

Evidence submitted to the court during the trial was gathered in the years 2008 and 2010. The evidence showed that the defendants plotted to bill Medicare for ambulance and transportation services that the company knew were unnecessary. Two of the defendants in the case told ProMed EMT’s to obscure patient’s medical conditions by making changes to paperwork and to create fraudulent documents that erroneously would specify that the transportation services were needed.

A lawsuit has been initiated by a man who is suing for alleged mistreatment by a physician in an Illinois healthcare center.

On August 10th, Lawrence Natonski filed a lawsuit in the Cook County Circuit Court naming Dr. Tahir Rohail, M.D., Premier Internal Medicine Group, S.C., and LaGrange Skilled Nursing Facility LLC, doing business as the Grove of LaGrange Park as defendants. The plaintiff is citing negligence in the case.

According to documents filed in connection to the claim, Natonski alleges that he suffered medical malpractice while he was in the care of Dr. Rohail and the other defendants named in the case. Natonski said that he was wrongfully treated on August 13th, 2013 for a sacral wound that later developed into decubitus ulcers, causing him pain and suffering and surgical intervention and reconstruction as a result.

A patient from Cook County has brought suit against a hospital and health care professionals alleging that he was mistreated while in their care.

Luis Gonzalez filed a lawsuit on August 17th in Cook County Circuit Court against Ingalls Memorial Hospital and Health Systems. Also named as defendants in the case are Dr. Bimal Shah and Harvey Anesthesiologists. Gonzalez’ suit is alleging both negligence and medical malpractice.

According to documents filed with the Court, on August 14, 2013, Gonzalez suffered medical malpractice while he was in the care of Dr. Shah and others at Ingalls Memorial Hospital. Gonzalez alleges that he became unresponsive and went into respiratory arrest after having a decompression laminectomy and excision of a herniated disc.

A Cook County woman has initiated a lawsuit against St. Joseph Hospital in connection with the alleged mistreatment and wrongful death of her friend.

On August 17th, independent administrator for the estate of Dorlas Culbertson (deceased), Tressia Permoda, filed a malpractice and wrongful death of Culbertson in Cook County Circuit Court. The lawsuit names St. Joseph Healthcare Centers and Hospitals, Dr. Maria A. Osipova, Dr. Marc Adajar, and S.T. Surgical Consultants doing business as Precision Surgical Group as defendants. The suit alleges medical negligence.

The lawsuit alleges that St. Joseph Healthcare Centers and Hospitals and the aforementioned doctors and healthcare organizations, practiced careless judgment while caring for Dorlas Culbertson on two different occasions. The alleged occasions were on August 29th – September 3rd, 2013; and September 4-8, also in 2013 Culbertson developed a small bowel obstruction in addition to an existing small bowel obstruction. These obstructions, according to the lawsuit, ultimately led to her death on September 8, 2013.

A Las Vegas physician is facing a second lawsuit of medical malpractice this year.

Arlene Muller, a widow, has filed a malpractice suit against urologist Dr. Michael Kaplan in Clark County District Court on July 24th. Muller’s suit comes approximately five months after Connie Mulick filed a malpractice lawsuit against Kaplan. Both women’s husbands died last year after having been treated by Kaplan.

Muller’s lawsuit alleges that Kaplan caused her husband John’s death when he was under the urologist’s care. Muller alleges that Kaplan “failed to evaluate Mr. Muller for an extended period of time during which the patient had blood in his urine” and “failed to perform a biopsy on Mr. Muller’s bladder when the CT scan report indicated the highly probable presence of cancer.”

Former Cal football safety Brandon Hicks has initiated a lawsuit against UC Berkeley and three of its regents alleging malpractice involving the prevention and treatment of concussions.

Hicks, who played for Cal from 2004 through 2008, suffered multiple concussions. The lawsuit alleges that the university failed to inform players of the long-term neurological diseases that have been linked to concussion and head injuries in players of sports such as football.

Hicks’ attorneys indicate that since, “The university is the players’ caretaker; we think it would be fair for them to at least inform the players what they’re getting themselves into.”

An Upper Darby man has been awarded nearly $12 million in a civil lawsuit by a jury in connection to the treatment he received at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in 2011 which left him paralyzed from the chest down.

The jury trial lasted for nearly two weeks before Common Pleas Judge Spiros Angelo. The jury deliberated for about four hours after final arguments were given before they returned their verdict. The jury awarded the plaintiff, Kenneth Del Grosso more than $9 million for past and future medical expenses, an additional $2.3 million in noneconomic losses and nearly $500,000 in lost earnings. The jury also awarded Del Grosso’s wife $500,000 for loss of consortium.

According to court documents, the plaintiff, Del Grosso, at age 53 years, visited the Delco Memorial emergency room on June 17, 2011, complaining of neck pain and tingling in his left arm.

A jury has awarded a Toledo woman and her husband $10.9 million in their lawsuit against a Maumee OB-GYN practice because of negligence that caused the woman to suffer a stroke.

According to court documents, the plaintiffs, Al and Jennifer Billups brought a malpractice lawsuit against Maumee OB-GYN Associates, part of ProMedica Central Physicians LLC.

The lawsuit alleged that Dr. Dayna Mohammadione, an on-call physican at the practice, negligently responded to her emergency call on March 21, 2012. Billups,’ primary physician was not on call at the time of an incident when the plaintiff was suffering pain. Mrs. Billups alleges that Dr. Mohammadione failed to take a sufficient history and did not send her to the hospital for immediate treatment which resulted in Billups suffering a stroke caused by gestational hypertension.