Equinox Health Club Not Liable for Attack on Loud-Mouthed Spinner
New York County Supreme Court Justice Carol R. Edmead has issued a decision in the case of the spin class goofball who wouldn’t shut up when asked and got his just reward. You may remember reading about this incident back in August of 2007. Plaintiff and another patron were in the same spin class in an Upper [...]
Negligence Caused Death of NY Rangers Rising Star
This is an UPDATE on my October 13, 2008 post, “Small Time Medical Care Hurts Big League Hockey.” Alexei Cherepanov, once considered a hot prospect for a future roster of our own New York Rangers, died that day when he collapsed while playing hockey in Russia, and could not receive timely medical care because no [...]
Update on Electronic Medical Records
Today’s LEGAL MEDICINE blog puts a renewed spotlight on the benefits of electronic medical records. It discusses a new study in the “Archives of Internal Medicine” that suggests that converting to such a system may help to curtail medical malpractice.
In local news, the GOTHAMIST notes that the family of an elderly Queens woman who was burned to [...]