Medical Malpractice

Cancer Malpractice

If you have been the victim of medical malpractice involving cancer, contact the New York and New Jersey medical malpractice lawyers at Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman

Misdiagnosis and late diagnosis of cancer is a deadly error that should never happen. With so many sophisticated diagnostic tools at their disposal today, such as mammograms, MRI’s, CAT/CT scans and biopsies, doctors should rarely, if ever, fail to correctly diagnose a patient’s cancer; and do so in a timely manner while the disease may still be treatable.

But the frightening facts remains that while last year more than 300,000 men and women were diagnosed with either prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, breast cancer and malignant melanoma (skin cancer), there were thousands of patients whose cancer went undetected, or detected too late, and suffered the devastating consequences, because of the negligence, or errors made by doctors, and/or by a pathologist who misread a biopsy, or by a radiologist who misread the films from a scan.

Not only were the patients’ lives destroyed, but spouses and children of the patients very often lost the emotional, and financial support, they depend on in their everyday lives. The New York and New Jersey medical malpractice lawyers at Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman have been representing victims of late diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer 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 clients who have been victims of late diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer has totaled in the many millions.

Collectively our lawyers have more than one hundred years of experience representing victims of late and misdiagnosis of cancer.

Further, 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 four of our partners have been recognized in Super Lawyers.