Breakfast with Med Mal Judge and Practitioners Tomorrow
Tomorrow morning, January 6, 2009, at 8:00 a.m. at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, there will be a breakfast program on LITIGATING IN THE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PARTS IN SUPREME COURT. The Honorable Sheila Abdus-Salaam, one of NY County Supreme Court’s Medical Malpractice Part judges, will be the guest speaker. She will [...]
Perils of Colonoscopy Prep, Electronic Medical Records Update, and Cold-hearted Insurers
Nobody looks forward to a colonoscopy, but based on anecdotal evidence, the preparation is usually worse than the procedure. Consuming large amounts of drugs that expel every last bit of waste from your colon so that your physician can get the unobstructed views necessary for the procedure is simply not fun. But, did you know [...]
Notice Provided By Big Apple Pothole Map Called Into Question
According to yesterday’s City Room blog in the NY Times, the Big Apple Pothole Map may be going the way of the dinosaurs. Apparently, the Court of Appeals ruled in two cases yesterday that the map did not provide sufficient notice to allow claims resulting from slip and fall accidents to go forward. The problem, according [...]