New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog

The days of having your own physician coordinate your care when you are a patient in the hospital have long passed. If you have been admitted to the hospital recently, you may have experienced a situation where you did not see your primary care physician—maybe they did not even know that you had been admitted…

Several of the attorneys at Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo P.C. have been named to the 2019 New York Metro Super Lawyers® list, 2019 New York Metro Rising Stars list and 2019 New Jersey Super Lawyers list. Recognition by Super Lawyers, one of the nation’s top legal rating systems, is an esteemed honor…

SPBMC trial attorney James Wilkens recently obtained a significant settlement in a medical malpractice suit. The case involved a widowed man with two children on the autism spectrum whose wife died suddenly on June 15, 2015. The plaintiff ultimately received a $3.3 million settlement. Lawsuit Helps Protect Vulnerable Family that Lost a Wife and Mother…

Under New York law, plaintiffs are allowed to recover damages for loss of income and loss of earning potential in a personal injury case in NYC. Where loss of income is actual earnings lost, a loss of earning potential is an estimate of how much you could have earned had you not been injured. They…

Putting a price on lifelong pain and suffering is not a simple task. Two people can be involved in the same accident, suffer the same injuries, but experience more or less pain and emotional trauma than the other. For that reason, pain and suffering falls under the category of non-economic damages, meaning no precise dollar…