The court addressing the lawsuit filed by a New York woman against Dr. Keith Berman who messed up her plastic surgery in 2003, gave a verdict in her favor, announcing an amount of $3.5 Million as compensation to her.

The jury said that the plastic surgery was expected to lift and increase the breast but it ended in a mess called "double bubble deformities".

A New York woman is reported to have filed a class action lawsuit on March 3 against Netflix and Warner Home Video over the two companies' recent agreement to postpone new launch being available via the rental service for 28 days after launch.

New York Governor David Paterson and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have revealed that a penny- per-ounce tax on sugary beverages is essential to curb obesity and recoup some of the billions of dollars a year spent on healthcare to treat people living with diabetes and other diseases.

A $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures has been received by the 2008-founded fast-growing publishing platform 'Posterous' - a company that regularly releases new products; one of the most recent ones being Post. ly, which allows users to share media on their Twitter account.

David Paterson revealed on Friday to serve out the term he inherited from Eliot Spitzer two years ago but would end his bid for a full four-year term.

"I hope that history will remember that I fought the good fight, that I did what was hard and I put the people first," he posted.

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast resigned, struggling to live another day in wait for utility crews to resume electricity connection after powerful storms socked the region with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.

The National Weather Service reported that a winter storm that pummeled New York City for two days has reportedly managed to break a monthly record for snowfall in Central Park that stood for 114 years.

The third major snowstorm of the month posed an adverse effect on travel by air, rail and road in and around New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday.

Crude oil futures further increased on Friday, on a weaker Dollar and macroeconomic statistics. Crude's increase to $80 a barrel fueled a rise in the expiring gasoline and heating oil futures.

While thinking about a robotic surgery for his prostate cancer, the first thing that Mike Ameroso asked his doctor was how many surgeries he had undertaken with the robot. Although the patient liked the idea of undergoing a minimal invasive surgery, which promises quick healing and minimum pain, he was worried about the uncommon practice.

Going by the findings of a health care purchasing value survey by New York’s Towers Watson, and Washington’s National Business Group on Health (NBGH), at least 76 percent of the companies feel that poor health habits of the workers are one of the top challenges for maintaining reasonably-priced benefit coverage.