Blog Posts in June, 2011
Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
In Justice Douglas E. McKeon's fluorescent-lighted chambers in the Bronx, a new way of handling medical malpractice suits was on full, and sometimes gruesome, display. Around a polished wood table, ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
To the Editor: In " Watching the Detectives " (Op-Ed, June 16), Joanna C. Schwartz asserts that the New York Police Department "ignores lawsuits" and "in contrast" to other police departments doesn't ...
Continue reading "PAUL J. BROWNE- NYPD comiss responds to NY Times that asserts that the New York Police Department "ignores lawsuits"" »
Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
In 2009, a judge in Manhattan had a lucrative appointment to hand out: oversight of a diamond district building that was drifting into foreclosure. Nearly 600 people in Manhattan had been approved for ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
New York State and the federal government provided $1.4 million annually per person to care for Jonathan and the other residents of the Oswald D. Heck Developmental Center, a warren of low-rise ...
Continue reading "A Disabled Boy's Death, and a System in Disarray-problems in care and abuse of our disabled" »
Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
For the first time in 30 years, awards for claims against the Police Department surpassed those generated by city's hospitals. New York City paid out $520.6 million in settlements and judgments of ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their chests twice on the ...
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