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 suffered nerve damage resulting in increased pain in his lower extremities. The plaintiff further claimed that the surgery also resulted in the development of a subdural hematoma, which compressed his cauda equina nerves o
