{"id":3444,"date":"2022-08-08T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2022-08-31T19:17:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:17:10","slug":"new-york-court-discusses-establishing-liability-in-a-medical-malpractice-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-discusses-establishing-liability-in-a-medical-malpractice-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Court Discusses Establishing Liability in a Medical Malpractice Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many chronic and acute conditions require surgical procedures. While surgery offers typically offers numerous benefits, people usually experience significant pain after their procedures are complete. Fortunately, such discomfort is readily managed with medication. If a doctor fails to prescribe or administer an appropriate drug, it can lead to endue suffering and emotional trauma and may be grounds for pursuing a medical malpractice claim. A party pursuing such claims bears the burden of proving the care offered by their doctor deviated from the accepted practice of medicine, and if they cannot meet their burden, their claims may be dismissed, as demonstrated in a recent New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/courts\/ad2\/Handdowns\/2022\/Decisions\/D69328.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a>. If you were injured due to an incompetent doctor, it is smart to confer with a Syracuse medical malpractice lawyer to discuss your right to pursue compensation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is alleged that the plaintiff underwent an anterior and posterior lumbar spinal decompression and fusion surgery which was performed at the defendant\u2019s hospital. After the surgery was complete, the plaintiff experienced extreme pain, and she later developed post-traumatic stress disorder due to the trauma. She then filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the defendant, arguing that its staff failed to provide her with an adequate amount of pain medication after surgery. The defendant filed a motion for summary judgment which the court granted. The plaintiff appealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Establishing Liability in a Medical Malpractice Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On appeal, the court upheld the trial court ruling. The court explained that under New York law,\u00a0 a defendant moving for summary judgment in their favor in a medical malpractice case must prove that there are no material issues of fact with regard to at least one of the elements of a medical malpractice case. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-discusses-establishing-liability-in-a-medical-malpractice-case\/#more-3444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many chronic and acute conditions require surgical procedures. While surgery offers typically offers numerous benefits, people usually experience significant pain after their procedures are complete. Fortunately, such discomfort is readily managed with medication. If a doctor fails to prescribe or administer an appropriate drug, it can lead to endue suffering and emotional trauma and may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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 Establishing Liability in a Medical Malpractice Case &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; August 8, 2022<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many chronic and acute conditions require surgical procedures. 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