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Almost five months after Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle's private plane crashed into an Upper East Side apartment building, a couple is suing Lidle's widow and estate for $7 million. Larry Rosenthal, a dentist, and his wife, whose apartment was damaged, claim that Lidle was "reckless, careless and negligent." The Rosenthals' lawyer said, "If you're not an experienced pilot, you don't belong on the East River with skyscrapers on either side."
The Daily News reports that the Rosenthals weren't even home at the time, though their baby-sister and the baby-sitter's child was there; the lawyer says they are still homeless. Rosenthal's patients include Donald Trump and Bruce Springsteen. However, one patient, Rules author Ellen Fein, has created a few website blasting his work - check out baddentist.com and lyingdentist.com. Last fall, a lawyer for Ilane Benhuri, the woman who was badly burned when the plane crashed into her apartment, said she would be suing Lidle's estate and the FAA.
This lawsuit comes as Lidle's widow Melanie is suing Cirrus, the maker of Lidle's plane. It still hasn't been determined whether Lidle or his flight instructor was flying the plane at the time of the crash; if Lidle wasn't flying the plane, a $1 million insurance policy can be paid out to the Lidle estate.
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Deadspin.com covered this guy earlier in the week. apparently he's quite the money-hungry jerk.
"This man right here is Larry Rosenthal, and he's a dentist on Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood. He also lives in the building that the late Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into last October. This so bothered him that he's suing the Lidle family for $7 million. Not the city: Lidle's family.
Sounds like an asshole, right? Oh, you don't know the half of it. This guy's got such a history of douchebaggery that there's a whole Web site devoted to him, appropriately titled BadDentist.com. What's his history? Here's a paragraph that pretty much sums him up:
"Celebrity" dentist Dr. Larry Rosenthal has been sued at least five times for malpractice. Dr. Rosenthal has had his professional license suspended after he admitted to illegally purchasing and distributing hundreds of grams of cocaine and many other illegal drugs. Dr. Rosenthal got caught lying about all of this under oath, thereby committing perjury, a felony punishable by five years imprisonment. Dr. Rosenthal has been sued by a competitor for stealing client records. Right now, Dr. Rosenthal is being sued by his own associate dentist. In the filings of that case, Dr. Rosenthal's associate claims that Dr. Rosenthal is both a liar and a criminal. Additionally, a receptionist where Dr. Rosenthal used to work claims under oath that Dr. Rosenthal sexually harassed her and other co-workers. Dr. Rosenthal has also lied to the press many times in order to promote himself. Additionally, Dr. Rosenthal has now admitted that providing a list of patients who traded sex for free dental work would violate doctor-patient confidentiality."
http://deadspin.com/sports/baseball/bad-dentist--bad-bad-dentist-241011.php
too bad Lidle missed.
i say, sue the yankees!!!!
they give their players far too much entightlement to act like the jerks they are. as much as the local media enjoys bashing the players, no one targets the real source of the problem - the yankee organization. this is the chance to bankrupt steinbrenner and kick the organization's sorry ass out of the bronx which they are completely destroying!
Why doesn't someone just take a bat to that Rosenthal? He probably has never been physically punished before and therefore has little to fear.
"baby-sister and the baby-sitter's child"
you mean baby-sitter.
yOU HAD TO HAVE KNOWN THIS WAS COMMING !!! I mean really !