{"id":3395,"date":"2022-05-28T18:18:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T22:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2022-05-26T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:54:06","slug":"new-york-court-discusses-notice-in-medical-malpractice-claims-against-public-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-discusses-notice-in-medical-malpractice-claims-against-public-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Court Discusses Notice in Medical Malpractice Claims Against Public Corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many health care facilities in New York are owned and operated by public corporations. A patient that sustains harm due to incompetent medical care at a hospital owned by a public corporation has the right to pursue damages via medical malpractice claims, but they must adhere to specific notice requirements. If they fail to provide the public corporation with the notice required by New York law, their claims may be dismissed, as demonstrated in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/courts\/ad1\/calendar\/List_Word\/2022\/05_May\/24\/PDF\/Umeh%20%20v%20%20NYC%20Health%20&amp;%20Hospitals%20(2021-04038).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion<\/a> issued by a New York Court. If you suffered injuries while receiving care at a hospital, it is prudent to speak to a Syracuse medical malpractice lawyer as soon as possible to protect your right to seek compensation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is alleged that the plaintiff underwent care at a hospital owned by the defendant city. The facts regarding the nature of his care were not provided, but he went on to suffer unspecified harm, which he alleged arose out of the negligence of the hospital employees. He subsequently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the defendant as well as an application to serve a late notice of claim or to deem the notice of claim timely filed. The trial court denied the motion, and the plaintiff appealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Notice in Medical Malpractice Claims Against Public Corporations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The appellate court affirmed the trial court ruling. In New York\u2019s General Municipal Law section 50, parties allegedly harmed by the negligence of the employee of a public corporation must provide the corporation with notice of their potential claim within 90 days of the date the claim accrued. In the subject case, the court explained that even if the continuous treatment doctrine applied, the time period for filing a notice of claim would have expired in October 2019, but the plaintiff did not file his notice until September 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-discusses-notice-in-medical-malpractice-claims-against-public-corporations\/#more-3395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many health care facilities in New York are owned and operated by public corporations. A patient that sustains harm due to incompetent medical care at a hospital owned by a public corporation has the right to pursue damages via medical malpractice claims, but they must adhere to specific notice requirements. If they fail to provide [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","category-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New York Court Discusses Notice in Medical Malpractice Claims Against Public Corporations &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; May 28, 2022<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many health care facilities in New York are owned and operated by public corporations. 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