Insights

On April 16, 2015, the New York City Council, by a 47- 3 vote, passed a bill that will make it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer, except in limited circumstances, to use an individual’s consumer credit history in making employment decisions.

Senior Trial Partner Peter T. Crean received a defense verdict in Supreme Court, Westchester County in a wrongful death trial involving a 41-year-old married mother with chest symptoms and rash who was diagnosed with, inter alia, an allergic reaction.

Senior Trial Partner John J. Barbera recently obtained a malpractice defense verdict in Supreme Court, Dutchess County. The case involved an 81-year-old previously ambulatory woman who was permanently confined to a wheelchair following hip replacement surgery.

Senior Trial Partner Peter T. Crean recently won an appeal in the Appellate Division, First Department dismissing the plaintiff’s legal malpractice action.

MCB’s Spring 2015 Newsletter Features the Following Articles

Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP featured in Long Island's Top Rated Lawyers

The infant-plaintiff was born in 1988 with a vestigial tail at the base of his spine. He contended that that cutaneous marker was a well-known sign of possible underlying spinal dysraphism.

A Staten Island judge dismissed plaintiff’s complaint for brain damage, allegedly sustained as a result of the defendant neurologist’s failure to timely diagnose a brain tumor, at the close of plaintiffs’ proof during trial.

Rosaleen T. McCrory and Yuko A. Nakahara authored an article in the March 6, 2015 edition of MD News entitled "Increase in Litigation against Physicians in Decubitus Ulcer Cases."

A 50-year old patient, with a long history of bowel obstructions, bowel resection, extensive abdominal adhesions, and chronic pain medication addiction was admitted to the Hospital for additional bowel pathology workup.