{"id":370,"date":"2010-05-13T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T22:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2010-05-13T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T22:40:16","slug":"st-vincents-hospital-closure-in-new-york-leaves-those-with-malpractice-suits-in-legal-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/st-vincents-hospital-closure-in-new-york-leaves-those-with-malpractice-suits-in-legal-limbo.html","title":{"rendered":"St. Vincent’s Hospital Closure In New York Leaves Those With Malpractice Suits In ‘Legal Limbo’"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan has closed, creating a quandary for hundreds of plaintiffs that have medical malpractice suits pending againt the shuttered facility, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/05\/13\/2010-05-13_st_vincents_hospital_closing_threatens_hundreds_of_medical_malpractice_lawsuits.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

These New Yorkers, an estimated 260 people, have been left in what The News calls “legal limbo” in terms of their litgation against the now bankrupt hospital.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0These victims may\u00a0never collect damages against St. Vincent’s, because the hospital’s assets are now\u00a0in Bankruptcy Court.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The pending lawsuits include cases where babies suffered brain damage during delivery, according to The News.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

St. Vincent officials decided to close the hospital, creating a furor in its Greenwich Village neighborhood,\u00a0because the facility is in debt for $1 billion. The hospital then\u00a0filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\r\n

The News reported that St. Vincent’s was self-insured against medical malpractice suits, and had set up a trust fund to\u00a0pay for successful claims.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

But that fund “is underfunded\u00a0by $150 million to $250 million — and its holdings\u00a0would first be doled out to priority\u00a0creditors rather than potential victims,” according to The News.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

A number of the malpractice suits are\u00a0either in the pretrial or trial stage.<\/p>\r\n

So these the unfortunate familes of\u00a0victims, those who died and those still living, have no recourse, and must bide their time to see if St. Vincent’s real estate generate enough money to\u00a0ultimately reach them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan has closed, creating a quandary for hundreds of plaintiffs that have medical malpractice suits pending againt the shuttered facility, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/05\/13\/2010-05-13_st_vincents_hospital_closing_threatens_hundreds_of_medical_malpractice_lawsuits.html These New Yorkers, an estimated 260 people, have been left in what The News calls “legal limbo” in terms of their litgation against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,416,417],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mecical-malpractice-attorney","tag-medical-malpractice-suits","tag-st-vincents-hospital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t