Infant v. Hospital - Erb's Palsy
N/AOUTCOME: $1.1 Million for Infant
Child suffered brachial plexus/Erb's palsy injury due to improper force being used during birth.
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Joseph M. Lichtenstein's Legal Cases (23)
Mineola, NY
Medical malpractice Lawyer at Mineola, NY
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death ... +2 more
Patient v. Doctor - Failure to Diagnose Heart Attack
N/AOUTCOME: $2.56 Million for Plaintiff
Medical malpractice case involving failure to timely diagnose and treat a heart attack. This case was fought on the issue of whether the decedent was already having the heart attack when he went to the ... doctor's office and reported "flu-like" symptoms. We were able to prove through independent review of the autopsy materials that the heart attack had started by the time he went to the doctor's office based upon the changes that had occurred to the heart prior to his death.
Infant v. Hospital - Failure to Diagnose/Treat Fetal Distress
N/AOUTCOME: $1.85 Million for Plainitff
Case involving birth injuries from failure to diagnose and treat fetal distress for inadequate oxygen
Brain Damaged Infant v. Hospital
N/AOUTCOME: $1.8 Million for Infant
Case alleging post-mature delivery of an infant resulting in brain damage. This case was handed to us after 18 years of lawyers rejecting it as too difficult to prove. We had to show that the child's c ... ondition and appearance at birth was consistent with "post-mature syndrome," which was in no way documented in the hospital records. After a pain staking search, we located the women who shared a room with our client at the hospital 18 years earlier, who actually remembered the unusual appearance of the child following the birth.
Infant v. Hospital
N/AOUTCOME: $1.5 Million for Infant
Case involving claims of failure to properly treat respiratory distress syndrome in a pre-mature neonate. This case involved a child who required oxygen after birth because his lungs weren't fully deve ... loped, and they failed to provide the oxygen he needed.
Infant v. Hospital - Erb's Palsy
N/AOUTCOME: $1.5 Million for Plaintiff
Case involving Erb's palsy as a result of an improper delivery. This was to our knowledge the second highest Erb's palsy settlement ever reported in New York. The defendants had a record of a sonogram ... taken during labor which showed the child was an appropriate candidate for a vaginal delivery. We had to show that this record was a fraud.
Plaintiff v. Hospital - Infection
N/AOUTCOME: $1.1 Million for Client
Case involving claims of failure to timely diagnose an infection of the buttocks following injections of pain medication for a back injury. This case had to be tried to verdict twice (the first trial r ... esulted in a hung jury).
Brain Damaged Infant v. Hospital
N/AOUTCOME: Over $47 Million Dollar Verdict for Plaintiff
Late intubation of asthmatic infant was blamed for brain damage. Client was awarded more than $47 million dollars as a result of the anesthesiologist's failure to quickly halt a cardiac arrest.
Patient v. Physician - Colonoscopy Perforation
N/AOUTCOME: $1 Million for Client
76 year old man whose colon was perforated during a colonoscopy.
Patient v. Neurosurgeon
N/AOUTCOME: $2.7 Million for Plaintiff
Case against world-famous neurosurgeon for causing paralysis while he removed a tumor from a cervical spine.