Are You Looking for a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer?

At GGCRBHS&M, we seek to help you recover compensation so that you can afford the care you need in order for you and your family to begin to recover. Our attorneys will work with qualified experts in the medical profession to help prove your claim. Throughout your case we will remain attentive and responsive to your medical and legal needs and meticulously prepare your case for trial. When your family suffers as a result of negligence, you deserve maximum compensation.

New York's Judiciary Law 474-A provides that in a medical malpractice case the attorney’s fee is 30% for the first $250,000 of the sum recovered. For the next $250,000 recovered, the fee is 25%. For the next $500,000 recovered the fee is 20%. For the next $250,000 recovered the fee is 15%. After that for any amount recovered over $1,250,000 the fee is 10%. Percentages are calculated on the net sum recovered after deduction of expenses and disbursement for expert testimony and investigative or other services properly expended by the attorneys in enforcement of the claim.

Yes. Pursuant to New York Civil Practice Law and Rules section 3012-A, a certificate of merit must accompany the complaint which states that the attorney for the plaintiff has consulted with an expert physician and that under the basis of that expert review, there is a reasonable ground for the commencement of a medical malpractice case.

Pursuant to section 3406 of the NY Civil Practice Law and Rules, the notice of medical malpractice action is a mandatory form that must be filled by the plaintiff with the clerk of the Court within 60 days of the service of answers by all defendants.

Our NYC personal injury lawyers have achieved verdicts and settlements that are among the largest in New York including:

• $120,000,000 verdict awarded by a Westchester County jury in a medical malpractice case for a 41-year-old father. Doctor's negligence led to irreversible brain damage, necessitating lifelong care at a brain injury center.
• A substantial but confidential settlement in Joan Rivers Medical Malpractice Case. The 81 year old star died after doctors performed unauthorized medical procedures during a routine endoscopy (see video below).
• $103,000,000 verdict (one of the largest ever) in a Broome County, NY, medical malpractice case on behalf of a Binghamton baby who was brain damaged at birth due to the lack of oxygen because of the failure to perform a sufficiently prompt emergency cesarean section.
• $90,939,857 jury verdict for a Brooklyn child whose cerebral palsy was due to the failure of an obstetrician to diagnose placental abruption and who thus delayed the cesarean section that was necessary to rescue the baby who was suffering from a lack of oxygen.
• $60,033,041.23 unanimous jury verdict – Highest Medical Malpractice Verdict in Nassau County History (2025) for a 65-year-old electrical mechanic who was left permanently paralyzed after a routine epidural steroid injection by Dr. Robert Iadevaio at the Pain Institute of Long Island (currently Catholic Health Long Island).
• $17,250,000 verdict for a man who was rendered partially incontinent as a result of medical malpractice in failing to diagnose a spinal malformation.
• $12,000,000 settlement for a man who was over radiated by the radiation center where he was treated for cancer.

In addition to successfully representing plaintiffs in a variety of medical malpractice matters, the lawyers at Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf are sought out by the legal community for their expertise--our lawyers have written articles in the area of medical malpractice and have taught continuing legal education courses in the specialty of medical malpractice. Below are a list of recent publications, lectures and courses in which our lawyers have been involved:

• The Judicial Institute. Ben Rubinowitz was asked to lecture to New York State Judges at “Judge School.” Ben spoke about “Common and Not So Common Scenarios That Give Rise to Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Cases.” Ben also demonstrated the Cross Examination of a Target Doctor in a Medical Malpractice Case. March 5, 2025.
• Winter Urologic Forum, "Recent Malpractice Cases: A Plaintiff's Perspective". Failure to Diagnose Prostate Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Surgical Errors and Lack of Informed Consent Cases. January 20, 2025, Virtual Presentation.
• Massachusetts Association of Pediatric Urologists, Teaching Urologists about Medical Malpractice, November 13, 2024, Boston, Massachusetts.W
• Webinar: A $120 Million Dollar Verdict - How did it Happen? Discussed from Start to Finish, May 20, 2024/5:00pm - 7:00pm Featuring Ben Rubinowitz
• Long Island Radiological Society, How to Avoid Medical Malpractice & What to do if You are Named in a Lawsuit?, May 14 2024
• American Urologic Association National Meeting, “MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, How to Protect Yourself and What to Do If You Are Named In A Lawsuit,” San Antonio, May 5, 2024
• Winter Urologic Forum, Medical Malpractice, “Do’s and Don’t’s,” Colorado, January 12 – 14, 2024
• Webinar: Trial Lawyer University: A case analysis by Ben Rubinowitz about his $120 million Westchester medical malpractice verdict, January 4 2024
• "A Plaintiff's Perspective: Medical Malpractice - Urologic Complications Leading to Injury and Death", American Urologic Association (AUA) Annual Meeting, Lecture and Demonstration, Chicago, April, 2023
• Winter Urologic Forum, “AVOIDING MEDICAL MALPRACTICE” Aspen, Colorado, January, 2023
• Judicial Institute, Lunch and Learn for New York State Judges, Medical Malpractice, March 15, 2022
• Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine, Communication Mistakes Leading to Medical Malpractice, San Diego, California February 25, 2022
• Winter Urologic Forum, “AVOIDING MEDICAL MALPRACTICE” Vail, Colorado, January 17, 2022
• MAYO CLINIC, Societies for Pediatric Urology, SPU 2021 “LESSONS FROM A PLAINTIFF’S LAWYER” December 4, 2021
• "A Plaintiff's Perspective: Medical Malpractice - Urologic Complications Leading to Injury and Death", American Urologic Association (AUA) Annual Meeting, Virtual Lecture and Demonstration, September 11, 2021
• Medical Malpractice / COVID and the Courts, THE JUDICIAL INSTITUTE, 8/2/2021. Educational teaching to New York State Judges at their annual conference\
• American Academy of Emergency Physicians, Virtual Emergency Room Physician Director’s Forum, Tips from a plaintiff’s lawyer: medical malpractice prevention and documentation, May 7, 2021
• COVID and the COURTS, NYU School of Law Live Simultaneous Transmission, January 11 2021