Podiatry Malpractice Lawyer & Attorney : Michael A. Quinn Law Firm : Surgery, Amputation, Podiatric Medicine : New Jersey

A podiatrist from Olympia Fields sexually assaulted a 75-year-old woman during a medical exam then told her he'd done her "a favor," a judge heard in court this week. Dr. Anthony Overton, 63, claims he was following normal procedures for a foot doctor when he touched the woman's breasts and inserted his finger into her vagina and rectum. But as Overton's bench trial began before Judge Michael Toomin at the Cook County Criminal Court on Tuesday morning, Assistant State's Attorney Beth Pfeiffer said, "Those transgressions were a crime."

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FACTS: The estate of a patient who died from a rare form of cancer alleged the man's death was due to negligence of the man's treating podiatrist. Plaintiff claimed defendant violated the standard of care, but the jury disagreed with that argument and returned a verdict in favor of defendant.

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A Long Island podiatrist was arrested and charged with bilking federal and state healthcare programs by billing them for treatments on patients who had died.

Dr. Alan Cantor was arraigned Wednesday on charges including grand larceny and scheming to defraud. Bail was set at $3,000 bond or $1,500 cash.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said that the East Meadow podiatrist had bilked Medicare and Medicaid programs of more than $30,000 over a year-and-a-half by billing them for treatments on patients who had died.

Source: Associated Press [3/13/08]

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Facts: The female plaintiff in her late 20s had received overlapping treatment from the three defendants, including an internist, podiatrist and ob/gyn, with the ob/gyn seeing her last. The plaintiff contended that despite the weight of the 5 ft. 5 in. tall plaintiff, which dropped as low as 101 lbs., frequent rigorous exercise, the loss of her period and the suffering of two stress fractures to the feet, the defendants negligently failed to consider that the plaintiff might be suffering from an eating disorder.

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A podiatrist from Burlington faces multiple counts of illegal drug procurement and possession and insurance fraud for allegedly illegally filling prescriptions at a Simsbury pharmacy and then trying to pay for them using insurance, police said Wednesday. Dr. Robert Januska, 65, who police said is not licensed to prescribe drugs in Connecticut, turned himself in March 3 after police issued a warrant for his arrest, according to Sgt. Fred Sifodaskalakis, head of the detective division of the Simsbury police.

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In this medical malpractice case, the female plaintiff contended that the defendant podiatrist negligently failed to properly diagnose and treat a lump in her foot. The plaintiff also maintained that the defendant failed to perform an MRI prior to surgery, resulting in the defendant allegedly failing to completely excise the mass during the surgical removal of the neuroma.

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