Brooklyn Medical Malpractice Lawyer

If you or a loved one suffered from medical malpractice in Brooklyn, it is crucial to seek the guidance of a top New York City trial lawyer with extensive experience litigating complex medical negligence cases in Brooklyn courts. Contact the personal injury law firm of Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf to discuss your case.

Our Brooklyn medical malpractice lawyers bring unmatched experience and a deep understanding of the systemic challenges within Brooklyn’s healthcare system. They are experts at uncovering negligence in hospitals that serve one of New York City’s most diverse and densely populated boroughs. Their familiarity with the borough’s public and private hospitals, many of which face chronic understaffing, overcrowding, and communication failures, gives them a unique advantage in representing victims of medical negligence.

• Overcrowded Brooklyn Hospitals and Staffing Shortages: Our attorneys are skilled in identifying how overburdened facilities like Coney Island Hospital, SUNY Downstate, and The Brooklyn Hospital Center contribute to delayed diagnoses, surgical errors, and other preventable injuries. They leverage this insight to demonstrate institutional negligence and secure compensation for patients harmed by systemic failures.
• Disparities in Access to Quality Care: Brooklyn’s healthcare inequities often determine patient outcomes. Our legal team has extensive experience representing individuals from neighborhoods such as Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Bushwick, where limited access to specialists and follow-up care frequently leads to delayed treatment and medical errors. Their deep local knowledge allows them to connect these systemic shortcomings to the injuries suffered by their clients.
• Language and Communication Barriers in Brooklyn’s Diverse Communities: With Brooklyn’s rich cultural mix—including large Haitian-Creole, Russian, and Mandarin-speaking populations—miscommunication remains a leading cause of medical mistakes. Our attorneys have successfully handled cases where hospitals failed to provide qualified interpreters or clear consent procedures, proving lack of informed consent and institutional negligence.
• Fragmented Continuity of Care Across Brooklyn: Many Brooklyn patients receive treatment from multiple providers and facilities, leading to breakdowns in communication and missed follow-ups. Our attorneys are adept at tracing these gaps in care—whether from missed test results, medication errors, or failure to coordinate treatment—and showing how these lapses result in serious, preventable harm.
• Negligence in Brooklyn’s Emergency and Maternity Units: Our trial lawyers have litigated some of the borough’s most catastrophic medical malpractice cases, including birth injuries and delayed emergency interventions. Their success in exposing how hospital mismanagement and communication breakdowns lead to irreversible injuries underscores their reputation as some of the most skilled malpractice attorneys in New York City.

A young mother, Sha-Keema Wise, arrived at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn just a week before her due date, complaining of severe abdominal pain. Physicians assumed she was in early labor, but in reality, she was suffering from a placental abruption—a rare but life-threatening condition in which the placenta separates from the uterine wall, depriving the baby of oxygen.

Despite clear warning signs, doctors failed to recognize the emergency and delayed performing a cesarean section for more than three hours. By the time the baby was delivered, she had suffered profound oxygen deprivation that left her with cerebral palsy. The child will require lifelong medical and custodial care and will never be able to walk, stand, or sit up independently.

After a two-week trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court, a jury of six women found the attending obstetrician liable for failing to properly diagnose the placental abruption. The verdict totaled $90,939,857, one of the largest ever recorded in Brooklyn for a medical malpractice case. Most of the award accounted for the child’s ongoing medical needs, including $88 million for lifetime care and $2 million for lost wages.

This landmark verdict highlights the devastating impact of delayed diagnosis and improper obstetrical care and underscores our attorneys’ dedication to holding medical professionals accountable when negligence causes permanent harm. Through meticulous preparation and expert trial advocacy, our attorneys secured justice for a child and her family whose lives were forever changed by preventable medical error.

At Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf, our unwavering commitment to excellence and results sets us apart. For more than a century, our attorneys have represented victims of medical negligence in Brooklyn with exceptional skill, compassion, and success.

• Deep Experience in Brooklyn Hospitals and Courts: Our attorneys have decades of experience litigating against major Brooklyn hospitals, including SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Maimonides Medical Center, Kings County Hospital, and The Brooklyn Hospital Center. Their familiarity with local medical institutions, expert witnesses, and court procedures provides a distinct strategic advantage when building and presenting complex medical malpractice cases in Kings County Supreme Court.
• Proven Track Record of Verdict and Settlements in Brooklyn: Our Brooklyn medical malpractice attorneys have secured some of the highest verdicts ever awarded in Kings County, including a $91 million verdict for a child who developed cerebral palsy following a delayed C-section at SUNY Downstate (see case study above). They have also achieved numerous multi-million-dollar settlements in cases involving surgical errors, anesthesia malpractice, and failure-to-diagnose conditions. Recent Brooklyn Medical Malpractice Verdicts and Settlements include:
  • $9.2 Million Settlement— In a Brooklyn case involving the failure to timely diagnose and treat a small-bowel obstruction, the delay led to systemic infection, multiple surgeries, and ultimately a kidney transplant.
  • $7,000,000 Recovery for a 35-year-old bookkeeper who was misdiagnosed in a Brooklyn emergency room with Bell’s Palsy while she was actually experiencing an evolving stroke.
  • $4.8 Million Verdict— A Brooklyn physician negligently treated a woman’s cancer with “alternative medicine” therapies, including coffee enemas.
  • $4.85 Million Recovery— In Kings County, the firm secured compensation for a child who suffered a birth injury due to failure to recognize and respond to fetal distress.
  • $4.0 Million Recovery— A Kings County case involving an undiagnosed subdural hematoma following an emergency room visit.
  • $2.3 Million Settlementfor a 57-year-old Kings County woman who sustained multiple bowel perforations during a gluteal augmentation procedure. Her surgeon disregarded her persistent postoperative symptoms until she developed septic shock, necessitating several emergency abdominal surgeries.
  • $2.125 Million Verdict— In Kings County, the jury awarded damages in a wrongful death case arising from dental and medical malpractice following a dental procedure.
  • $1.27 Million Jury Verdict— In Brooklyn, a colonoscopy injury case in which the patient’s spleen was torn at the splenic flexure; the defense maintained a “no-pay” position prior to trial.
  • $1,245,000 Settlementfor the adult children of a 63-year-old Brooklyn woman whose doctor failed to biopsy a worsening vulvar lesion. The delay in diagnosing cancer allowed the disease to spread, leading to her premature death.
• Comprehensive Understanding of Medical Negligence: From misdiagnosis and surgical errors to birth injuries and hospital negligence, our team possesses deep medical and legal knowledge that enables them to analyze records, question experts, and prove liability with precision. This comprehensive understanding allows our attorneys to transform complex medical evidence into clear, persuasive arguments that resonate with juries.
• Reputation for Relentless Advocacy: Our trial lawyers are nationally recognized for their courtroom excellenceand fearless advocacy. Their reputation as tenacious litigators ensures that insurance companies and hospital defense teams take every case seriously. Because the firm is known for taking difficult cases to verdict—and winning—our clients often benefit from higher settlement values and faster resolutions.
• Personalized Legal Representation: Every client we represent receives individualized attention from a senior trial attorney. We deliberately limit our caseload to ensure that each case receives the full resources, focus, and expertise it deserves—from the first investigation through trial. Clients work directly with experienced attorneys who understand the stakes, the medicine, and the emotional toll of medical malpractice.
• A Century of Leadership and Results:With over 100 years of leadership in New York personal injury law, our firm combines deep local knowledge of Brooklyn’s healthcare landscape with nationally recognized trial expertise. Our mission is simple: to provide the highest standard of legal representation for victims of medical malpractice and to hold negligent medical professionals fully accountable for the harm they cause.

• Thorough investigation and analysis of your medical records
• Consultation with top medical experts across multiple specialties
• Careful evaluation of hospital procedures, diagnostic errors, and surgical outcomes
• Aggressive litigation against negligent physicians, hospitals, and healthcare providers
• Comprehensive calculation of damages, including lifelong medical and custodial care needs
• Diligent representation at Brooklyn Supreme Courtand throughout the appellate process, if necessary.

Medical malpractice cases in Brooklyn often involve local hospitals, clinics, and healthcare providers. An attorney familiar with Brooklyn courts and juries understands how to navigate the borough’s legal landscape and effectively advocate for victims of medical negligence.

Seek immediate medical attention to address any harm caused, obtain copies of your medical records, and avoid discussing your potential claim with the negligent provider or their insurer. Then, contact a Brooklyn medical malpractice attorney as soon as possible to evaluate your case.

We conduct a comprehensive investigation that includes reviewing medical records, consulting with top medical experts, and identifying all responsible parties. Our Brooklyn medical malpractice lawyers build strong, evidence-based cases aimed at securing full compensation for our clients.

Common Brooklyn medical malpractice cases involve surgical mistakes, anesthesia errors, birth injuries, delayed or missed diagnoses, emergency room errors, and medication mistakes. If a healthcare provider failed to meet accepted standards of care, you may have grounds for a claim.

Compensation may include past and future medical expenses, loss of income, reduced earning capacity, pain and suffering, and in wrongful death cases, damages for the loss of a loved one. Our goal is to obtain maximum recovery for every client.

In most cases, New York law allows two years and six months from the date of the malpractice to file a lawsuit. However, there are several important exceptions and special circumstances that can alter this deadline:

• Foreign Object Exception: If a foreign object was left inside your body, you have one year from the date you discovered—or reasonably should have discovered—the object to file a claim.
• Delayed Cancer Diagnosis Exception: For missed or delayed cancer diagnoses, you have 5 years from the date you discovered the misdiagnosis, provided it is discovered within seven years of the medical error.
• Children: For minors, the 30-month period does not begin until the child’s 18th birthday, though it cannot extend more than 10 years after the malpractice occurred.
• Mental Incapacity: If the patient was legally insane at the time of the malpractice, the statute of limitations is paused until the disability ends, but cannot exceed 10 years from the incident.
• Municipal or State Hospitals: Cases involving city- or state-run facilities (such as NYC Health + Hospitals) are subject to shorter deadlines and notice-of-claim requirements, sometimes as brief as one year and 90 days.

Because these rules are complex and vary depending on the circumstances, it’s crucial to contact an experienced Brooklyn medical malpractice attorney immediately to ensure your claim is filed within the correct time frame.

With more than a century of experience and numerous record-setting verdicts and settlements, our attorneys have earned a reputation as some of New York’s top trial lawyers. We combine deep medical-legal knowledge with an unwavering commitment to justice for Brooklyn patients.

Whether you or a loved one suffered harm due to a medical error, surgical mistake, birth injury, or delayed diagnosis, the Brooklyn medical malpractice attorneys at Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf are here to help.
Our goal is to ensure that every client receives the maximum compensation possible for their injuries, losses, and future care needs — and to hold negligent medical professionals fully accountable for the damage they cause.

Contact us today at 212-943-1090 or through our online form for a free consultation with one of our top-rated Brooklyn medical malpractice lawyers.

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