- Personal Injury Law
Our firm handles all types of serious personal injury and wrongful death cases caused by:
- Automobile Accidents
- Slip and Falls
- Hospital Negligence
- Medical Negligence
- Birth Injuries
- Premises Liability
- Nursing Home Negligence
- Defective Products
- Construction Accidents
- Toxic Tort
- Vioxx Litigation
- Trucking Accidents
Personal injuries not only cause physical pain, but often emotional and financial hardship through loss of work, medical bills and stress placed upon families and loved ones. We often take our physical and mental well being for granted-until something goes wrong. When an accident happens lives are forever changed. Simple pleasures become chores. Daily routines are disrupted. Economic losses are often devastating. Whether caused by an automobile accident, a defective product, medical malpractice, or other negligent, careless or reckless conduct, injuries alter lives forever. We take responsibility for effective, aggressive investigation and representation, allowing the injured person to attend to health, family and economic issues, while pursuing a variety of legal means to obtain the highest possible financial recovery.
Our team of lawyers, paralegals, and investigators effectively works to level the playing field with the vast resources of insurance companies by putting our experience and proven techniques to work, including early investigation, careful review of medical records, assisting and directing clients to appropriate, supporting medical providers, and thoroughly evaluating economic and emotional losses. Insurance companies have clouded the opinion of the public by distorting statistics and highlighting a few outrageous verdicts among thousands and thousands of legitimate claims. Our firm strives to satisfactorily meet client objectives and goals by focusing on the catastrophic personal toll caused by the negligence, careless, and recklessness of others so that judges, juries and insurance adjusters alike understand the need to fully and fairly compensate personal injury victims for all aspects of their losses.
- Products Liability
Injuries caused by defective products happen every day. These injuries are frequently serious and debilitating. Our firm has years of experience and an excellent track record of representing individuals who have been injured as a result of an unsafe product that was designed, manufactured, sold, and/or furnished by a person or company. This type of case is handled much like other personal injury cases, but the proof is much different. In a product liability case the product and its safety are on trial. We have successfully handled products liability cases over the years and assist injured individuals in bringing their claims and being fairly compensated for their injuries.
- Medical Malpractice Law
Though the majority of health care providers do good work, mistakes are sometimes made which could adversely affect a person, as well as their friends and family, for the rest of their lives. We represent individuals and their families whose medical provider has breached the standard of care in diagnosing or treating medical conditions. We have extensive experience in cases involving:
- Birth-Related Injuries
- Brain Injuries
- Surgical Errors
- Misdiagnosis or Late Diagnosis
- Failure to Diagnose Cancer
- Obstetrical and Gynecological Malpractice
- Patient neglect
- Incorrect Administration of Medication
- Nursing Malpractice
- Psychiatric Malpractice
- Emergency Room Errors
- Elder Abuse
- Toxic Torts
Our firm has extensive experience representing individuals who have been injured by exposure to toxic and other dangerous substances, forms of energy, and devices, including asbestos, chemicals and cosmetics, hazardous waste, medical products and devices, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, radiation and electromagnetic energy, and tobacco. We represent clients in recovering money damages for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and punitive damages, where appropriate, individually or as part of a class action.
- Labor Law
Labor Law Section 240 is also known as the scaffolding statute. It generally holds that an owner or general contractor is strictly liable for any injuries resulting from a fall from an elevated work site. The injuries sustained must be directly linked to an elevation-related risk. Examples include a scaffold that collapses, a ladder that collapses, or a fall due to the lack of a safety belt or defective safety equipment. The New York State Labor Law provides construction workers with varying degrees of protection for construction related injuries. If you are a construction worker who has been injured on a job site, please contact us as quickly as possible to learn what rights you have.
Ameduri Galante Friscia & Curry
471 Bement Avenue
Staten Island, New York 10310
Telephone: (718) 442-9000
Fax: (718) 273-5219
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Ameduri Galante & Friscia serves medical malpractice clients in the five boroughs of New York City: Staten Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, NY.