New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog

Trust accompanies a visit to a doctor’s office or hospital. However, when a medical provider overlooks or fails to diagnose a serious medical condition, such as cancer, the consequences can be devastating. In cancer cases, a delayed diagnosis due to medical error can often turn curable cancer into a terminal one. To make matters worse,…

Today marks the anniversary of the devastating Black Sunday fires in 2005, which killed or severely injured seven members of the FDNY. First, Brooklyn firefighter Richard Sclafani died when overcome by smoke at a private house fire. On that same day, five firefighters and a lieutenant became trapped in a Bronx apartment that was consumed by flames and were forced…

Thirteen members recognized for outstanding representation in plaintiffs personal injury, medical malpractice and products liability litigation NEW YORK, NY | November 10, 2017 – Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo, P.C. (SPBMC) is proud to announce that 13 of its members were selected for inclusion in the 2018 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. One…

Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo, P.C. (SPBMC) won a $26 million medical negligence verdict last week on behalf of its client for past and future pain and suffering. The plaintiff was a 7-and-a-half-year-old girl who was born deaf, along with other health problems. She was one of two twin girls born in 2010….

Our client (plaintiff), age 57, was operating his motorcycle on a through street at a “T” intersection, in Bernardsville, New Jersey, when the operator of another motor vehicle pulled out past a stop sign, on the cross street and to plaintiff’s right, and attempted to make a left turn in front of our client. In…