The CVS pharmacy on 18th Street and Park Avenue is in trouble after customers found old prescription information billowing through the nearby streets. Numerous papers containing patient's names, addresses and old prescription info were not properly disposed of, and patients are angry. Shirley Okin told the Daily News, "I'm just so angry. I'm going to blow my stack!" However, she was apparently fine with letting the press know her mishandled prescription was for fioricet with codeine from back in 2002. more ›

The NY Times has a sad update about the family of the 5-year-old boy who fell to his death when a housing project elevator malfunctioned last year. The Times says, with the family of Jacob Neuman (pictured) is suing the Housing Authority for negligence, the HA wants to interview Jacob's brother, 9-year-old Israel who witnessed his brother fall from the 10th floor. However, his parents' lawyer has asked a judge to waive the testimony. The Neumans are worried about Israel's state of mind—"in play therapy, he drew an elevator shaft with red at the bottom," though he acts out against classmates, kids consider him a "rachmoonus" (pity) case— and a court-appointed psychologist wrote, "His defenses are so brittle that when thoughts regarding the incident reach or are introduced into his consciousness, he becomes despondent and he desperately defends against them. It is quite possible, given his present state, that serious mental decomposition may occur. That this will occur is not certain; if it does, it will be devastating indeed." The Housing Authority has a bad track record elevators; there are other lawsuits against the HA over elevator maintenance. more ›

After a judge threw out a rape victim's negligence suit against the MTA and its workers for not helping stop the rape, the victim has now gone public to express her amazement at the ruling. Maria Besedin said, "I'm honestly still in shock. It's so hard for me to process this whole thing because I just really wanted everyone out there to be safe, to never have to experience anything like I did." more ›

A Queens judge has thrown out a suit against the MTA and two of its employees filed by a woman who was raped on the platform of the G train's 21st Street stop and accused onlooking transit workers of not doing enough to help her. Subway conductor Harmodio Cruz and station agent John Koort both called the command center to alert authorities of the assault in progress, but Cruz allowed his train to leave the station and Koort did not call cops directly. The judge said that the effectiveness of those extra efforts was "pure speculation." He added, "This is not the type of egregious situation that offends common sense and decency ... where they watched and did nothing." By the time cops arrived, the rapist had escaped and has not since been caught. The lawyer for the victim, an artist and an NYU student at the time of the attack, said that she was crying and devastated at the news. He told reporters, "How inept do their [transit workers] actions need to be before the courts will let a New Yorker file a case like this?" more ›

Ilir Ademi is suing a New York Sports Club in Queens for its staff allegedly failing to administer CPR or make use of their defibrillator when his wife suffered a heart arrhythmia and died there last spring. His 25-year-old bride Dari Gracova was already brain dead by the time EMTs arrived at the the gym fifteen minutes after she first collapsed. Ademi claims that as his wife lay convulsing on the floor, club employees "came and moved everyone away from her" and then kept them away, refusing to use the automated external defibrillators that are required by law. NYSC has denied responsibility for the death after being hit with the $6 million suit Friday. more ›

A Queens woman who waited hours for a brain scan was won a $10.7 million award from a jury. Candida Diego, 71, had fallen down stairs at the pharmacy where she worked as a cashier and cracked her skull. She was taken to NY Hospital Medical Center of Queens, where she waited two hours for a brain scan "less than an hour before she lapsed into a coma in the emergency room," the Daily News reports. Diego has no movement on her left side and uses a wheelchair and her husband had retired but returned to work as a butcher to support her; he added, "She can't do anything for herself. She's very depressed." Their lawyer pointed out the hospital is a "level one trauma center" but didn't respond like one; the hospital will appeal the finding. more ›