Medical Malpractice Attorney in New York, New York

Medical Malpractice in New York City

New York City is the country's largest metropolitan medical malpractice market. The combination of world-class medical centers, a large at-risk population, no non-economic damage cap, and plaintiff-favorable county venues produces some of the nation's largest malpractice verdicts annually. The Bronx and Brooklyn in particular are known for plaintiff-favorable jury pools that have consistently awarded birth injury and catastrophic injury verdicts in excess of $20 million. The continuous treatment doctrine — which tolls the SOL until the last date of treatment for the same condition — often gives plaintiffs significantly more time to investigate and file than the nominal 2.5-year deadline suggests.

New York's large academic medical centers — Columbia, Cornell, NYU Langone, Montefiore, Mount Sinai — handle the most complex cases in the region, and where complexity is highest, the risk of error is greatest. NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation's largest public hospital system with 11 facilities, is a frequent malpractice defendant. Claims against public hospital entities in New York require service of a Notice of Claim within 90 days under General Municipal Law § 50-e — a critical pre-suit requirement with a very short deadline.