A pregnant woman who was receiving prenatal treatment at a clinic came to the emergency room of a university hospital on March 29, 1997 complaining of leaking amniotic fluid. The residents and interns attended to her by taking her medical history and interviewing her. A licensed obstetrician saw the pregnant…
A couple, who are carriers of genetic mutations that cause cystic fibrosis were residents of the State of Colorado. When the wife became pregnant with triplets via in vitro fertilization, they decided to have a genetic test to determine the health of the fetuses. A doctor, who is the Chief…
Infant plaintiff alleges that he sustained injury due to respondent’s medical malpractice. The injury was in connection with his birth, pre-natal and post-natal up to his discharge. He sustained perinatal asphyxia, which manifested as a cognitive developmental delays, coordination difficulties, seizures, hyperactivity, and mental retardation. According to General Municipal Law,…
A school district was constructing a new school building. It hired a construction manager and it also hired a general contractor for the school building project. The school district and the construction manager procured an insurance to indemnify them from any claim of damages for injuries sustained in the construction…
The County of Columbia in New York established a solid waste disposal plant in the town of Claverack in 1981. To protect itself, the County procured comprehensive and general liability insurance policy. The insurers claimed in its advertising that it would pay all sums which the insured shall be legally…
A construction company and a building owner asked for judgment without proceeding claiming that the accused, an insurance provider of the subcontractor electrical company, has a duty to support and cover them with respect to the law suit filed against them. However, the insurance provider filed a move to dismiss…
A student at the City University of New York was leaving the Performing Arts Center of Queens College at 11:30 p.m. when she stepped on a broken and raised part of the stairs which caused her to trip and fall. As it turned out, the student made a mistake when…
A lady was walking outside a restaurant located at 1396 Third Avenue in Manhattan. The restaurant had a permit from the City of New York to set up café tables and chairs on the sidewalk. On the sidewalk there was a tree providing shade for the café tables. Sometime on…
The pre-preliminary hearing for five current and former priests and other church officials took place on March 14 in Philadelphia, learned a New York Injury Lawyer. While the hearing was supposed to have been a relatively simple matter, before the end of the hearing the judge was expressing her anger…
Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook, has won yet another battle against his former classmates at Harvard who believe he stole the idea of the now-famous social-networking site from them. The plaintiffs, twins featured in the movie about the ongoing conflict, “The Social Network”, are required to accept the settlement in…