New York City Physician Malpractice

The New York City malpractice attorneys of the Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm want to let you know more about physician malpractice laws in New York. If you are a victim of doctor malpractice, you need to know your rights and recourse.

Sympathy and Support

Physician malpractice can occur during visits or stays in clinics, private offices, hospitals, or nursing homes. The results can be serious, chronic, or permanent emotionally, physically, and financially. Our lawyers realize how difficult it can be to live with the outcome of a physician’s malpractice and offer you our compassion along with advice and advocacy.

Physician Malpractice and New York City Law

There are two crucial elements to establish according New York City’s physician malpractice laws:

• The doctor departed from good and accepted medical practice and failed to diagnose a patient's medical condition; and
• The failure to properly diagnose was the cause, or a substantial part of the cause, of the patient’s injury.

Your lawyer has to be able to demonstrate to the jury’s satisfaction what would have happened to you if the physician had made an accurate diagnosis and establish the injuries that did occur because of the doctor’s incorrect diagnosis.

Physician’s malpractice is most often associated with failure to make a proper diagnosis, resulting in serious injury or death, but there may be other situations to which it applies. Birth injuries, prescription errors, eye doctor and dentist mistakes, and other negative medical outcomes may be considered physician malpractice as well.

New York City Malpractice Advice

You should contact the law firm of Jacob Fuchsberg for more information about New York City law and how it applies to physicians’ malpractice in general, and your case in particular. Please contact us for a thorough evaluation of your physician malpractice litigation needs at 212-869-3500.