Boston, MA
Medical malpractice Lawyer at Boston, MA
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Ethics & Professional Responsibility ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Confidential Settlement
Vulnerable gynecological patient seeks medical care. Doctor proceeds to treat patient regarding psychological problems and provides marriage counseling, Prescribes psychiatric medications as well. ... Slowly grooms patient into idealizing him and becoming very dependent. Patient becomes sexually involved. She suffers emotional trauma, severe damage to her family and loss of employment as a result of negligence and sexual exploitation.
OUTCOME: Judgement for the Plaintiff in the amount of $1,041,384.00
Psychologist participated in submitting confidential information to the Court regarding an individual who was not her client and involved in litigation involving custody of minor children. Court found ... malpractice and violations of the consumer protection statutes.
OUTCOME: Confidential Settlement
Patient diagnosed with autism and retardation not provided medications as prescribed and not properly supervised. Patient died as a result of such neglect
OUTCOME: $10million dollar recovery
47 parties abused by several priests and the Archdiocese failed to take action to protect the children and their families.
OUTCOME: Settled $1.1million
Dr K was chief psychiatrist of a well known teaching hospital. He was the supervisor of 25 other psychiatrists in a psychiatric unit. He was treating 2 patients who had a diagnosis of DID (multiple p ... ersonality disorder) In the course of his treatment he violated numerous boundaries, breached his fiduciary duties and caused one of the patients to have sex with him while she was in a child like dissociative condition. He took nude photos of this patient and physically abused her as well.
OUTCOME: Settled $11.5 million
As a result of a defective in floor heating unit and fabric on a couch not meeting standards for fire proofing, a young child suffered second and third degree burns over his body which required years o ... f surgeries and left him with severe permanent scarring and disabilities.
OUTCOME: Modified Discovery Rule in Psychiatric Malpractice
Male Therapist sexually abused male patient. Supreme Court broadened the existing statute of limitations enabling many abused psychiatric patients to pursue their claims. Previously, these claims wo ... uld have been barred.
OUTCOME: Plaintiff's Verdict: $1.2million
HRB was sexually abused by a priest when he was about 12years old. The trauma was so great that he repressed the events until much later in life. The Archdiocese knew of the propensity of this priest ... to abuse children but only moved him to various parishes until there was a new complaint. Their intentional failure to supervise the priest led to the jury's finding against the church.
OUTCOME: Plaintiff's Verdict: $1.3million
Licensed male social worker sexually abused male patient in therapy. The mishandling of transference issues caused the patient's vulnerability to being sexually abused. The wife's consortium claim wa ... s also decided in her favor.
OUTCOME: Plaintiff's verdict
Plaintiff was a patient in psychiatric hospital. Dr Goldberg was her treating psychiatrist. He would come to her room and upon her release, to her home where he would sexually abuse his patient. Thi ... s was the first jury verdict in Massachusetts against a psychiatrist for mishandling transference, boundary violations and breaches of his fiduciary duties.