Florina Altshiler Presents a DRI Webinar on Unintentionally False Eyewitness Testimony on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Click here for more information.

On October 24, 2017, Stephen Toner, won a defense verdict in Forte v Galeno & Phelps Memorial Hospital, Index No.: 60621/12 (Supreme Court, Westchester County). The case involved a then 55-year old, 350 pound man who underwent a decompressive laminectomy, and spinal fusion surgery from L3 through S1, with insertion of 8 pedicle screws and titanium rods, in his lower back. The plaintiff claimed that as a result of the misplacement of pedicle screws during that surgery he suf