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Napoli Bern Ripka, LLP Blog

Napoli Bern Ripka, LLP Blog
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7/19/2008
Oguz Ozdemir
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New York Hospital Being Sued Over Death of Jamaican

The family of a Jamaican woman who died after being left unattended on the floor of the psychiatric ward at Kings County Hospital Centre (KCHC) in Brooklyn has slapped the public-run hospital and the City of New York with a $25-million lawsuit.
Tecia Harrison, the eldest child of the deceased, Esmin Green, filed the wrongful death notice yesterday. She is being represented by civil rights attorney Sandford Rubenstein. In an interview at his downtown Brooklyn law office yesterday, Rubenstein said what was important to Green's family was getting justice for their loved one.
    Negligence obviously occurred in the New York hospital, which lead to the death of the Green. Whoever was responsible for the acts of neglect, as well as the acts of cover-up, should be held criminally liable under our system of justice, said Rubenstein. "What's important is that they get change, so that what happened to their mom never happens again to anyone else."He said while it had taken Green's tragic death to bring some much-needed reform at Kings County, this was only the beginning.
The family's lawsuit comes even as the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and the City Department of Investigations continue their probes into allegations that hospital staffers changed Esmin Green's medical chart after she died. The medical record indicates that the sick woman was sitting quietly in the waiting room at 6:20 a.m. on June 19, the day she died. The security camera recording activities in the waiting room contradicted this claim, showing that Green had long fallen off her chair and was still lying on the floor at 6:20 a.m., finally receiving attention some-20 minutes later.
"It's clear from the timeline that exists that records were falsified with regard to what happened," Rubenstein noted. Harrison, Green's 31-year-old daughter, at first said she would not view the tape showing her mother's final moments, but yesterday looked at snippets of it at her lawyer's office. "I had to see what my mother went through, although I couldn't face all of it," she told The Gleaner. "It was heartbreaking, horrifying. A piece of me died when I saw my mother fall on the floor," she added.Green's body has been flown home to Jamaica, where the funeral will take place on Sunday at Point Hill, St Catherine.
If any of your family members had an accident or incident that was caused by the negligence, malicious intent, or carelessness of another party, our wrongful death law firm can determine whether you have grounds to file a wrongful death claim against the negligent party. At Napoli Bern Ripka, our wrongful death attorneys have the resources and the eagerness to litigate wrongful death cases. Our firm’s experienced attorney’s have the expertise to find out what happened, how it happened, and how it could have been prevented
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