New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog

On January 31, 2018, Governor Cuomo signed Lavern’s Law.  This law changes the time when the statute of limitations begins to run for medical malpractice cases involving failure to diagnose cancer. Before this law, plaintiffs had a 2 ½-year window to start a lawsuit that began to run on the date the misdiagnosis occurred.  For…

A forceful delivery caused severe and permanent injuries to our 5-year-old client.  The mother of this young girl retained our law firm to represent her daughter for personal injuries she suffered at birth because the delivering doctor did not use the appropriate techniques and accepted birthing maneuvers when this baby’s arm became stuck behind the…

A settlement in the sum of $1.2 million was achieved for our client who needlessly suffered a delay in the diagnosis of eye cancer because of a medical office error.  The 50-year-old woman came under the care of an ophthalmologist when she discovered a growth in her eye. The ophthalmologist recommended that she undergo surgery…

A  study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania has confirmed a relatively obvious assumption about healthcare: fewer caregivers provide inferior care. While this conclusion is likely no surprise, the reasons for the decline in care are not necessarily as obvious as one might think. For example, the study concluded that the drop in healthcare quality…

Our attorney Elizabeth Montesano, negotiated a $1.25 Million recovery for a Urologist’s dismissal of symptoms that indicated cancer. Our Client’s cancer had been diagnosed in October 2011, but it was believed to have been eradicated in November 2011, when the cancerous tumor was surgically removed from his bladder. During the four months that followed the…