Sullivan & Brill, LLP and co-counsel recently obtained a $750,000 settlement on behalf of a client whose radial nerve had been severed by a surgeon attempting to remove two tumors in her right arm.  The client presented to the surgeon with neurofibromatosis, a condition that causes tumors to grow on nerve tissue.  The doctor that committed the medical malpractice evaluted the client and assured her that the small tumor could be removed without any damage to the radial nerve.  However, prior to the surgery, he did not perform the proper tests to ensure that the tumor could be safely removed without damaging the radial nerve, and during the surgery, he severed it, leaving the client with a significant loss of use of her right hand.

Surgical errors are not uncommon and may not be readily apparent.  If you or someone you care about thinks they may have been a victim of this type of medical malpractice, call 212-566-1000 for a free consultation or complete the form at the left and an experience medical malpractice lawyer will call you to disucss your case.

The New York personal injury lawyer Joseph Sullivan recently obtained a $500,000 settlement, with the assistance of a Florida law firm, for a client who was the victim of a sexual assault by an employee of a major cruise line.  The incident occurred while the ship was in port in a foreign country.  The cruise line immediately began taking statements from the victims and employees involved and attempted to thwart any attempt to have the incident investigated by the foreign authorities.  Immediate intervention by Sullivan & Brill, involving the FBI, local Florida police and authorities from the foreign country, resulted in a police investigation that was critical to the success of the case. Ultimately, the employee involved was tracked down and deposed in Costa Rica.  His testimony was integral to the settlement of the case.  

Cruise ships are far more dangerous than the industry would like the public to believe.  Injuries caused by sexual assaults and slip and fall accidents are not uncommon.  Many people don’t realize that terms and conditions on the back of the cruise ticket require that they formally notify the cruise line of the details of the accident in a very short period of time, often 30 days, and that it limits the time within which they must file suit.  If you are injured on a cruise ship, you must act quickly.  The cruise ship accident lawyers at Sullivan & Brill can help you get the compensation you deserve.

After twisting her ankle late one evening, a Sullivan & Brill client went to a Nassau County podiatrist complaining of pain.   He took x-rays and told her it was a bad sprain. After three months of continued pain, she went to an orthopedist, who took additional x-rays and diagnosed her with a fractured lateral malleolus. Sullivan & Brill filed suit against the podiatrist, claiming that the delayed diagnosis made the fracture worse, requiring surgery that would not otherwise have been necessary.  The podiatrist claimed that he did diagnose the fracture and his records so indicated.  The turning point in the case came, when medical malpractice attorney, Joseph Sullivan, locked the podiatrist into this testimony and then secured insurance claim forms and a handwriting expert to demonstrated that the podiatrist's testimony was false and that he changed his records to cover up his mistake.  The podiatrist and his insurance company continued to argue that even if the fracture had been immediately diagnosed, the course of treatment would have been the same, so the client had not sustained any injury from the missed diagnosis.  The podiatrist and his insurance company finally acceded to Sullivan & Brill's demand as the jury was being impaneled.

The delayed diagnosis of injuries and disease leads to thousands of more serious injuries and deaths every year. If you or a loved one has been injured by this type of medical malpractice, Sullivan & Brill can help you. For a free consultation, call 212-566-1000 or fill out the form to the left and an experienced medical malpractice lawyer will call you.

A settlement of $350,000 was recently obtained by medical malpractice lawyer Joseph Sullivan for a women whose Brooklyn dermatologist gave her the incorrect results of a biopsy of a mole on her forehead.  She was told by the office staff that the biopsy was normal, when in fact it showed she had a basal cell carcinoma.  When the mole began to rapidly grow, she saw another dermatologist, who made the correct diagnosis.  Thankfully, the cancer had not spread and she was able to have it completely removed with Mohs surgery by a Manhattan surgeon.  Today, she is cancer free.  However, the surgery left scars on her forehead, which Sullivan & Brill successfully argued she would not have been left with had the cancer been immediately diagnosed and removed. 

The failure to diagnose cancer leads to thousands of serious injuries and deaths every year.  If you or a loved one has been injured by this type of medical malpractice, Sullivan & Brill can help you.  For a free consultation, call 212-566-1000 or fill out the form to the left and an experienced medical malpractice lawyer will call you.

Sullivan & Brill, LLP, with the assistance of co-counsel, recently obtained a $250,000 settlement on behalf of a middle-eastern man falsely accused of scalping tickets in front of a well know Manhattan theater.  The man was on line at the theater when he saw people he know from his community.  He walked forward to say hello, when a private security guard approached him and accused him of scalping tickets.  He denied the accusations and refused to leave the theater.  The New York City Police were called.  When he refused to leave, his arm was twisted behind his back, he was thrown on the ground and arrested.  The police would only agree to release him from the precinct if he signed something saying he was not injured.  He refused so he was booked on charges of trespassing and scalping.  The criminal charges were eventually dismissed.  A federal civil rights lawsuit was brought against the New York City Police Department and the theater claiming that the client's civil rights were violated as a result of the false arrest, false imprisonment and police brutality.  During the pre-trial phase of the case, the New York false arrest lawyers uncovered the existence of a video tape of the incident that had mysteriously disappeared.  This fact opened the door to the $250,000 settlement for the false arrest and one night of false imprisonment suffered by the client.

If you or someone you car about has been the victim of a false arrest, false imprisonment or police brutality, you should immediately seek advice from a civil rights lawyer that is experienced in handling civil rights cases. For a free consultation with such an attorney, complete the form to the right or call 212-566-1000. Based in New York City, Sullivan & Brill, LLP represents clients throughout the United States, as well as in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Westchester County and other upstate New York counties.

Personal injury lawyer, Joseph Sullivan, recently negotiated a $180,000 settlement for a pedestrian knocked down by a car backing up to pull into a parking space.  As a result of the fall, the man sustained a herniated disc in his lumbar spine (lower back), for which he received physical therapy, epidural steroid injections and trigger point injections.  The insurance company claimed that the accident was the client’s fault because he was crossing the street between blocks and that the man was not seriously injured in the accident, but rather any injuries he had were the result of a work place accident he had years before the pedestrian knock down accident.