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ProPublica on How Columbia Hospital Ignored Women and Protected a Predator

We have taken note of the recent ProPublica article titled “How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator for More than 20 Years” that sheds further light on the deeply troubling allegations against Robert Hadden, a former OBGYN convicted on July 25, 2023, of sexually abusing patients. As legal representatives of over 100 …

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Robert Hadden convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, announced the 20-year prison sentence of Robert Hadden, convicted in January for enticing and inducing four victims to travel interstate for unlawful sexual activity. Hadden, who practiced medicine from 1987 to 2012, abused dozens of patients over two decades, using his position as an …

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New York Presbyterian Hospital Dr Cheng Charged With Multiple Sexual Assaults

A prominent gastroenterologist from Queens, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng, has been charged with a series of sexual assaults, including drugging, raping, and filming the assaults of several women, some of whom were his patients at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital. The charges were announced by the Queens District Attorney’s office and include 50 new counts brought …

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NY Senators ask colleagues to extend Child Victims Act amid COVID-19

Advocates of the Child Victims Act (CVA) as well as child abuse victims themselves are currently urging lawmakers to extend the lookback window of the  Child Victims Act (CVA) for another year, which would give adult victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to file legal actions against their perpetrators. Unfortunately, with COVID-19 putting a …

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signs bill easing limit on sex abuse lawsuits

According to WABC TV New York, Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation Monday to ease restrictions on when childhood sexual abuse victims can seek damages in court, an action that comes after a wave of details last year about the abuse of minors in the Roman Catholic Church. Murphy said in a statement that he recognized …

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Jeff Herman in the New York Post: “Legal experts trash ‘child porn’ claim over Nirvana ‘Nevermind’ album cover”

NEW YORK, August 25,2021, (nypost.com) A lawsuit filed by the man who appeared as a baby on Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album cover is getting a varied reaction from many legal experts. Jeff Herman quoted in the New York Post article: But lawyer Jeff Herman, whose Manhattan firm recently filed around 1,400 suits under New York’s Child Victims’ Act, …

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Herman Law Firm P.A. in the New York Post: “How the Child Victims Act revealed New York’s dark history of child sexual abuse”

NEW YORK, August 13, 2021, (nypost.com) Tomorrow marks the final day to file child sexual abuse cases in New York under the New York Child Victims’ Act. From the New York Post article: “Overall, the [Child Victims’ Act] window has accomplished what it was intended to do,” said Jeff Herman from Herman Law, which has …

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