Your father went into a Manhattan hospital for what the surgeon described as a routine colon resection. Five days later, he was feverish, confused, and in septic shock. Eleven days after the operation, he was gone. The hospital's patient relations office told you they were “conducting a thorough internal review” and would be in touch. While you wait for answers that may never come, the wrongful death statute of limitations in New York is already running — and it's shorter tha

You went into a Bronx operating room for what your surgeon called a routine abdominal procedure. Three weeks later you're back in an emergency room with a raging fever, and a CT scan shows a surgical sponge sitting inside your abdomen, surrounded by infection. You were unconscious for the entire operation, so you have no idea who left it there — the surgeon, the scrub nurse, the circulating nurse, or someone else on the team. New York law has an answer for exactly this proble