{"id":2606,"date":"2019-12-26T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T20:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:06:30","slug":"new-york-appellate-court-reverses-summary-judgment-granted-to-medical-providers-on-claim-regarding-vegetative-patients-conscious-pain-and-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-court-reverses-summary-judgment-granted-to-medical-providers-on-claim-regarding-vegetative-patients-conscious-pain-and-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment Granted to Medical Providers on Claim Regarding Vegetative Patient&#8217;s Conscious Pain and Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a lawsuit arising from an alleged act of medical malpractice, a Syracuse medical malpractice plaintiff may seek reasonable compensation for several different types of damages. Two of the most common types of damages are medical expenses and lost earning capacity caused by the act(s) of medical negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Money damages may also be awarded for pain and suffering in some cases. Of course, in order for this to happen, there must be\u00a0 proof that the victim was aware of his or her suffering, at least on some level. While it is not necessary to show that he or she was fully &#8220;awake&#8221; and completely aware of everything that was happening at the time in question, there must be some evidence of awareness of his or her pain during the relevant time. Whether or not this was so in a certain case can be a point of much contention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-first-department\/2019\/10590-450176-16.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case<\/a> arising in the Supreme Court of New York County, the plaintiff was a woman who sought monetary compensation for the death of a medical patient who died after having been treated by the defendants, two hospitals and several other medical providers. Two of the defendants sought summary judgment on the issue of the plaintiff&#8217;s conscious pain and suffering claim, arguing that there were no genuine issues of material fact as to whether the decedent was cognitively aware during the time that she was admitted to those defendants&#8217; medical facilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-appellate-court-reverses-summary-judgment-granted-to-medical-providers-on-claim-regarding-vegetative-patients-conscious-pain-and-suffering\/#more-2606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lawsuit arising from an alleged act of medical malpractice, a Syracuse medical malpractice plaintiff may seek reasonable compensation for several different types of damages. Two of the most common types of damages are medical expenses and lost earning capacity caused by the act(s) of medical negligence. Money damages may also be awarded for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","category-medical-malpractice","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment Granted to Medical Providers on Claim Regarding Vegetative Patient&#039;s Conscious Pain and Suffering &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 26, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a lawsuit arising from an alleged act of medical malpractice, a Syracuse medical malpractice plaintiff may seek reasonable compensation for several &#8212; 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