Medical Malpractice

Overview

When a doctor, a surgeon or a hospital acts carelessly, or fails to act in time, it can result in serious injury and/or permanent disability.  Or it can cost you your life.  

The most common cases of medical malpractice are usually the result of a wrong diagnosis, or late diagnosis, failure to diagnose, diagnostic error, or surgical mishap.    

Errors that hospital emergency room doctors and nurses, such as failure to diagnosis a heart attack, appendicitis, or a stroke, kills patients every day.  If a nurse gives a patient the wrong medicine, or fails to consider how multiple drugs interact in a patient, it can seriously compromise the patient’s life.

Equally devastating are the errors surgeons and anesthesiologists make in the operating room.  Botched surgery, anesthesia errors and post-operative negligence in hospital and clinical settings are just some of the causes of harm to patients -- harm that leads to medical malpractice suits against the doctor, or institution responsible for your pain and suffering.

The New York medical malpractice lawyers at Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman have been representing victims of medical malpractice for more than three decades.  We have recovered money for our clients in 98% of the cases we have handled.  The total dollars we have recovered for our clients who have been victims of medical malpractice has exceeded $200 million dollars.

Collectively our partners have well more than one hundred years of experience representing victims of medical malpractice. Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman is one of only seven law firms in New York City to be ranked by US News & World Report as a New York Tier 1 law firm in the category of Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs in 2010. One of our lawyers has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, and three of our partners have been recognized in Super Lawyers.