{"id":2330,"date":"2019-03-25T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2019-03-26T22:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T02:19:31","slug":"plaintiffs-in-birth-injury-case-were-not-entitled-to-relief-from-defense-verdict-according-to-new-york-appellate-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/plaintiffs-in-birth-injury-case-were-not-entitled-to-relief-from-defense-verdict-according-to-new-york-appellate-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaintiffs in Birth Injury Case Were Not Entitled to Relief from Defense Verdict, According to New York Appellate Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse medical malpractice case can have many issues and may take several years to ultimately be decided. While this can be daunting to a would-be plaintiff, this does not mean that a claim against a careless doctor or other medical professional should not be pursued. If you believe that you or a loved one has been hurt by a doctor&#8217;s mistake, the best course of action is to talk to an attorney about your case as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-fourth-department\/2019\/1137-ca-18-00782.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent case<\/a>, the plaintiffs were the parents of a minor child who allegedly suffered certain injuries as a result of the negligence of the defendant doctors and medical clinic during labor and delivery. The case was tried to a jury, which returned a defense verdict. The plaintiff made an immediate oral motion seeking a mistrial on the basis of substantial juror confusion. The trial court granted the motion. Thereafter, the defendants made a post-trial motion to reinstate the verdict. The trial court denied the motion, but the appellate court granted the motion and reinstated the verdict. The plaintiffs then made a post-trial motion to set aside the verdict in the interest of justice. The trial court denied the motion, and the plaintiffs appealed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/plaintiffs-in-birth-injury-case-were-not-entitled-to-relief-from-defense-verdict-according-to-new-york-appellate-court\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Plaintiffs in Birth Injury Case Were Not Entitled to Relief from Defense Verdict, According to New York Appellate Court\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse medical malpractice case can have many issues and may take several years to ultimately be decided. While this can be daunting to a would-be plaintiff, this does not mean that a claim against a careless doctor or other medical professional should not be pursued. If you believe that you or a loved one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injuries","category-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plaintiffs in Birth Injury Case Were Not Entitled to Relief from Defense Verdict, According to New York Appellate Court &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; March 25, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Syracuse medical malpractice case can have many issues and may take several years to ultimately be decided. 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