Case Results

The Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, recently issued a unanimous reversal in defendants’ favor, in an appeal briefed and argued by Ellen B. Fishman. The plaintiff sued eight years after undergoing cardiac surgery

A 29-year-old woman was admitted for a labor and delivery with her first child and Pitocin was used to augment the patient’s labor, which initially proceeded well. Subsequently, an emergency cesarean section was performed because of an arrest of decent.

A woman in her mid-fifties with a history of cervical disc disease had a prior fusion of two vertebrae in her neck at the C5-6 level, employing hardware. Our client, an experienced neurosurgeon, detected a further problem at the C3-4 level, and fused that level.

In a New York County case tried by Senior Partner Bruce Habian, plaintiff’s claim involved too protracted and hyperstimulated labor which progressed toward uterine hemorrhage and ultimate hysterectomy.

Senior Partner Bruce Habian tried to verdict a case involving a claim of failure to diagnose bilateral hip dysplasia over a 15-month period. The alleged failure necessitated multiple open reduction surgeries, with hardware, to correct the hip deformities.

Senior Partner Bruce G. Habian received a defense verdict in Supreme Court, New York County in a case involving a patient who presented to the emergency room with significant hemorrhage.

Senior Partner Bruce Habian tried to a unanimous defense verdict a case in which he represented a major metropolitan teaching institute. This was a sensitive case involving a child with disfiguring chest and abdominal scars.

Senior Partner Bruce G. Habian obtained a defense verdict in New York County where plaintiff claimed improper surgery performed in a patient with serious co-morbidities including rheumatoid arthritis.

Senior Partner Bruce G. Habian was retained by a hospital client wherein the hospital’s prior law firm received the decision striking the hospital’s Answer for inability to produce crucial fetal heart rate tracings.

Senior partner, Bruce G. Habian, obtained a defense verdict in Kings County in a matter where plaintiff claimed a significant delay in diagnosis of a breast lesion. Infection mastitis was definitely present in the breast before an inflammatory lesion superseded.