Congratulations to Richard Nicholson on his most recent defense verdict! This Rockland County venued matter involved the alleged failure to timely diagnose a meningioma brain tumor in a then 9-year-old male. Plaintiffs claimed that the defendants failed to appreciate the signs/symptoms of an evolving brain tumor and negligently referred the infant-plaintiff for an Electroencephalography study as opposed […]
Wrongful death from failure to admit
Jiang v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Supreme Court, New York; Index No. 805172/13 (2018)
(lower court upheld on re-argument its prior decision which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss as time-barred)
Joseph Dugan
Denial of Summary Judgement reversed by Angela M. Ribaudo. (October 2018)
The New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department found that a ureteral stent was not a “foreign object” for purposes of medical malpractice statute and thus, action should have been dismissed as time-barred. The denial of summary judgment was reversed on these grounds. Angela M Ribaudo represented the appellant.
Livsey v. Nyack Hospital
167 A.D.3d 591 (2nd Dept. 2018)
(denial of summary judgment reversed on grounds that a ureteral stent was not a “foreign object” for purposes of medical malpractice statute and thus, action should have been dismissed as time-barred)
Angela M. Ribaudo
Alleged failure to diagnose septicemia
Sheftall v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Sheftall v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Supreme Court, Kings; Index No: 502336/12(2018) (denial of motion to dismiss for failure to file a timely Notice of Claim; summary judgment granted and action dismissed)
Cooney v. Phillip, et al.
Supreme Court, New York; Index No: 151009/14 (2018)
defendant and upheld on re-argument)
Bello v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Supreme Court, Bronx; Index No: 306687/10 & 43061/17 (2018)
(denial of third party defendant’s motion to sever and/or dismiss third party action)
Samantha E. Quinn
Ogarro v. St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center
N.Y.S. 3d, 2018 N.Y. Slip Op. 01170 (1st Dept. 2018)
(Summary judgment affirmed where no proximate cause proven; unsupported hindsight reasoning insufficient to create issue of fact)
Samantha E. Quinn