The way pediatricians are working on preventing personal injury for children and teenagers is evolving. There was a time when doctors would be taught to provide the same advice for any family for each type of injury. For example in the field of teen driver crash injury prevention, each teen…
We are proud to announce that for the tenth consecutive year our attorneys have been named to the New York Super Lawyers list. In 2015 nine of our lawyers were selected. These are: Ben B. Rubinowitz(Top 100), Anthony H. Gair, Howard Hershenhorn, Jeffrey B. Bloom, Richard M. Steigman, Jerome I. Katz, Stephen…
The NYPD has been handing out flyers to elderly pedestrians in Southern Brooklyn recently in an effort to reduce the high number of elderly pedestrian fatalities in the area. The flyer is providing tips on how to navigate the streets more safely. According to recent statistics more than half of…
Since the de Blasio administration launched The Vision Zero program to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities in New York, jaywalking tickets have been increasing significantly. By the end of last year, according to NYPD statistics, jaywalking summonses had nearly quadrupled the average for the previous six year. In a long article,…
Failure to diagnose or delay to treat herpes simplex in the eye area can result in serious personal injury such as episcleritis, keratopathy, iritis, blepharitis, conjunctivitis, uveitis, keratitis, retinitis, optic neuritis, glaucoma, proptosis, cicatricial lid retractions, and extraocular muscle palsies. In “case of the month: a lesion near the eye”, the…
One day before he died in a construction accident, 19 year old Fernando Vanegas told his mom that he was worried about the safety of the construction site after a retaining wall designed to hold back the soil around the base of a building where he was working had almost…
Failure to diagnose a medical condition can be medical malpractice. However in some rare cases patients can suffer from unknown conditions that even the the most skilled doctors have failed to diagnose despite extensive clinical investigations. These patients now have a new possibility to submit their case to the some of the nation’s…
A 21 year old woman died and her 22 year old friend was seriously injured in a bicycle accident in New York City. The two women were riding their bicycles on Hylan Blvd. in Great Kills yesterday afternoon around 4:30 pm when they were struck by a boat trailer that had…
Hospital medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in this country, behind heart disease and cancer. In a recent article in the New York Times, a retired transplant surgeon explains how an unresponsive medical staff left him no other choice but to break into into the crash cart, a…
Our Partner Jeffrey Bloom will be a speaker at the “Mount Sinai Update: Breast Imaging Conference” to be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on October 12, 2015 . Jeff will speak from 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM and his presentation will cover the plaintiff’s attorney’s perspective on…