You're riding in the bike lane on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx when a City sanitation truck makes a right turn across your path at East 167th Street. The driver never sees you. You wake up at Lincoln Hospital with a shattered T10 vertebra, and the doctors tell you that you'll never walk again. Your family is focused on surgery, rehab, and survival — as they should be. But under New York law, a clock started running the moment that truck hit you, and the 90-day notice of c

You scheduled a surgery at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, expecting a normal recovery. Perhaps it was a hernia repair, a hysterectomy, or a colectomy. Instead, you woke up with an injury no one is explaining clearly — a perforated bowel, a severed bile duct, a nerve injury that left a leg weak, or an infection that turned septic. You think you have a malpractice case, and you may be right. However, Nassau County hospital malpractice claims against NUMC follo