Jury awards $130 million in retrial of med-mal case
After enduring 10 years of litigation and three trials, a Long Island couple was vindicated when a jury awarded their daughter $130 million for a brain injury that she sustained during birth. The damages were assessed against Port Jefferson's St. Charles Hospital, at which Shannon Reilly was born in 2002. Shannon's parents alleged that a delivery nurse did not react to some 40 minutes of monitor readings that indicated that the fetus's respiration was impaired, and they claimed that Shannon sustained brain damage that caused cerebral palsy during that time. They contended that a prompt response could have resulted in an earlier delivery that would have averted Shannon's injury. The hospital rejected blame and is contesting the verdict.
Reilly v. NiniaSuffolk County
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Medical group pays $1.1M for not revealing cancer diagnosis
A Long Island-based medical group agreed to pay $1.1 million to the family of a patient whose cancer diagnosis was never disclosed. The payment settles a lawsuit that was filed by the estate of Albert Schultz, who died March 10, 2009, merely five days after learning that he was suffering terminal cancer. The disease was detected by a colonoscopy that was performed in 2007 at an office of Queens-Long Island Medical Group, P.C. The doctor who performed the test acknowledged having not disclosed the result during a follow-up to the colonoscopy, but he claimed that Schultz skipped a second follow-up in which the diagnosis would have been revealed. Schultz's family claimed that the doctor did not advise that the second follow-up was necessary.
VIEW THE FULL CASE Schultz v. Queens-Long Island Medical Group, P.C.Nassau County
Man hurt in warehouse accident recovers $4.65 million
A man who claimed that he fell through a set of shelves while working at a Queens warehouse recovered $4.65 million via a settlement of his resultant lawsuit. The suit's plaintiff, Enver Muriqi, contended that he sustained career-ending injuries, including a herniated disc and tears of a hip and a shoulder, during the September 2008 accident. Muriqi, now in his early 40s, contended that he had not been provided a safe method of reaching overhead pipes that needed to be removed and therefore climbed a set of shelves to perform the task. Liability was decided via summary judgment. The defense contended that Muriqi's injures were not related to the accident, but it ultimately agreed to a pretrial settlement.
VIEW THE FULL CASE Muriqi v. Charmer Industries Inc.Bronx County
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