Best New York City Medical Malpractice Attorneys

The Rothenberg Law Firm is a family-run personal injury practice in Midtown Manhattan. It has represented injured patients and accident victims since 1969. Other offices serve Brooklyn, Queens, Rockland County, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.

Its malpractice results include $26.3 million for a brain injury misdiagnosis that caused permanent paralysis. The firm also recovered $22.1 million in a defective prescription drug case against a major manufacturer.

Attorneys work with medical experts, medical illustrators, and private investigators to build each claim. Every case is prepared for trial if needed. The firm also serves as co-counsel in all 50 states.

Since 1997, Kerner Law Group has handled personal injury and medical malpractice cases across the Bronx. Stuart M. Kerner and Matthew H. Kerner lead this family-run practice. Their attorneys have long litigated at the Bronx Supreme Court.

The firm maintains offices in Riverdale, Crotona Park, and Pelham, as well as a Yonkers location for Westchester clients. It works with medical experts to document injuries insurers often dispute, such as traumatic brain injury.

Free consultations take place at your home, in the hospital, or at the office. The team also speaks Spanish.

The Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe is a Long Island and Queens personal injury firm. It takes on a wide range of medical negligence claims. Partners Stephen Cohen and Richard Jaffe lead a team with more than 100 years of combined experience. Jaffe is also a trained EMT.

Malpractice cases the firm handles include:

• Birth injuries such as cerebral palsy and Erb's palsy
• Missed heart attack diagnoses
• Surgical errors and objects left inside patients

Offices are in New Hyde Park and Jackson Heights, and attorneys will travel to clients who can't come in. Clients deal directly with the partners. Under the firm's No Fee Promise, you pay nothing unless there is a recovery.

Two malpractice recoveries, $10 million and $8.5 million, anchor the track record of Leav & Steinberg, LLP. This trial-focused Manhattan firm has represented seriously injured New Yorkers since 1999.

Its lawyers pursue claims for failure to diagnose, surgical mistakes, brain damage, and LASIK injuries. They also bring hospital negligence cases and suits against city and state agencies. The attorneys are admitted in the Southern and Eastern District federal courts.

With offices in Manhattan and the Bronx, the firm serves all five boroughs. Clients work directly with their attorneys, not support staff. Daniel Leav and Edward Steinberg are members of the NYC Bar's Legal Referral Service.

Mallilo & Grossman is a Flushing law firm that describes itself as the largest personal injury practice in Queens. It has served Queens, Brooklyn, and the rest of New York City since 1979.

Past malpractice results include $2 million for a disabled woman whose stroke was not diagnosed in time. The firm also won an $850,000 jury award over a poorly treated pressure ulcer.

Founded by Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg, this Manhattan firm reports winning the first million-dollar verdict in the country. It has recovered over $295 million, including $8 million for a patient paralyzed after a neurologist missed an autoimmune disease.

Another case brought $7.5 million after a doctor failed to order an MRI for a teenager. Attorneys also handle birth injuries such as HIE, cancer misdiagnosis, and medical neglect in jails. The firm serves the five boroughs in Spanish, Korean, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu.

Peter Briskin is a personal injury lawyer with a Lower Manhattan office and several locations across New Jersey. Attorney Briskin's team handles complex medical malpractice claims, as well as truck and workplace injury cases.

Results include a $2.1 million truck crash recovery and a $975,000 workplace settlement. Clients pay no upfront legal fees.

A $7.75 million recovery against the City of New York stands among Lambrou Law's results. Lambros Y. Lambrou leads this Financial District firm, which takes medical malpractice, elder abuse, and sexual abuse cases. It also has offices in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Paul F. Oliveri leads Oliveri & Schwartz, P.C., a Brooklyn team of personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers serving New York City. The firm also takes wrongful death cases. Attorneys are reachable 24/7 and will meet you at home, in the hospital, or at an office.

Nursing home neglect is the main focus of Dalli & Marino, LLP. This trial firm has a Midtown Manhattan office. Its attorneys pursue claims for bedsores, falls, and medication errors in care facilities. The firm also takes medical malpractice cases.

It secured $3 million for the family of a dementia patient harmed by chemical cleaner at a Brooklyn assisted living facility.

Seiden & Kaufman is a Manhattan and Long Island firm that handles only personal injury matters. Its partners personally manage each case. The firm speaks Spanish, Italian, and Hungarian and offers rides to its offices on request.

Ira M. Perlman and Robert D. Rosen are Manhattan trial attorneys with more than 35 years in practice. Their malpractice work covers surgical errors, medication mistakes, and dental malpractice. Results include a $1.3 million medical malpractice settlement.

Founded on Wall Street in 1999, O'Hare Parnagian LLP is mainly a business litigation firm. Its separate injury practice represents people hurt by negligence and medical malpractice. Offices are in Lower Manhattan and Scarsdale.