Trial Lawyers Are Good.Their FL Website is Crass. A Dr. is a Criminal.
The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog shines a light on something that is more than just medical malpractice. It is criminal enterprise. This story concerns a physician and snake-oil saleswoman, all in the same person, who took advantage of the desperation of patients with advanced cancer by selling them an expensive “herbal remedy” that she [...]
Medical Malpractice, Negligent Homicide or Failure to Discipline?
When I was an assistant district attorney in Queens County (NYC), New York, my boss, Richard Brown, decided to charge a local OB/GYN with murder, based on a showing of “depraved indifference to human life,” after that physician’s depraved actions during an abortion procedure in a storefront clinic left his immigrant patient dead. The New York [...]
Builders of NYC’s Subway Steps May Ignore Building Code, and Other Lessons From New Cases
So you’re attempting to navigate the steps leading down into one of NYC’s subway stations, and you fall and hurt yourself because the steps are of inconsistent heights, and there is no handrail within reach when you lose your balance. You bring a law suit, during which your expert testifies that the steps at issue [...]