Richard A. Gurfein is a past president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. Before being admitted to practice, he was an Electrical Engineer and a High School Math teacher. He tried his first case 10 days after becoming a lawyer and hasn't stopped for almost 40 years. His success as a trial lawyer representing injured clients has gained him membership in the elite "Million Dollar Advocates Forum".
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Medical Malpractice |
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Personal Injury Wrongful Death |
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Product Liability |
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Work Related Injury Contruction Accidents |
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Late and Misdiagnosis of Disease |
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Premises Liability |
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Auto AccidentsTruck AccidentsMotorcycle Accidents |
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Pedestrian Accidents |
The fundamental problem of proof in cases of Erbs Palsy is that there are defense experts who believe (or at least say they believe) that Erbs Palsy is a naturally occurring phenomenon.
“If the child’s injury is caused by a dangerous product,” he added, “it could result in an action against the manufacturer and anyone else who participated in putting the product into the ’stream of commerce.
Is this not cause for medical malpractice if any of the unsuspecting patients got sicker, or died, because the test they had taken hadn’t been read by their doctor?
No workdays are normal on a construction site. Based on years of experience handling cases for hardhats injured and killed in the line of duty, that construction sites are never normal.
Preston J. Douglas graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in Biology and from Brooklyn Law School with a J.D. He is admitted to practice in both New York and Florida. Mr. Douglas' practice takes him to both state and federal courts across the country.
Susan Benoit is a graduate of Hunter College and has spent the better part of her career protecting the rights of her clients. She has developed an expertise in plaintiff's personal injury cases.
