Larry D. Bloomstein, Partner

Larry Bloomstein’s litigation and trial expertise includes the defense of high exposure and complex claims within New York and New Jersey. Larry represents hospitals, medical groups, multi-disciplinary practices, ambulatory surgery centers, hospitalists, nurses, N.P.’s and P.A.’s within matters including all disciplines of medicine, including: Neurosurgery and Neurology, Ob/Gyn, Cardiology,  Surgery (Spinal; Bariatric, General, Orthopedic, Cardiothoracic, Plastic, Vascular, etc.), alleged cancer misdiagnosis, Interventional, Diagnostic and Neuro-radiology; Anesthesia/Pain Management, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, G.I., Hematology, Oncology, Emergency Medicine, and others.

Highlights of Larry’s jury trial and other results include:

• Defense verdict for a pain management anesthesiologist. Plaintiff claimed that unsterile technique during a lumbar epidural injection caused MRSA spinal abscess, bacteremia and urosepsis. Claimed damages were foot drop, dependence on lifelong opiate pain medication, and acute renal failure requring placement on a kidney transplant list.
• Defense verdict for a GI/Advanced Endoscopist in a case involving colon perforation during a complex polypectomy, thereby leading to emergent surgical repair, followed by delayed bleeding requiring transfusions and additional surgery.
• Pre-Answer dismissal of claim involving a pregnant Covid patient who suffered permanent brain damage due to cardio-pulmonary arrest stemming from alleged pulmonary embolus.
• Secured discontinuance during trial for a spinal surgeon who allegedly mismanaged a thoracic spinal burst fracture causing permanent cord injury, paraplegia, and incontinence.
• Defense verdict for a hospital in a wrongful death suit alleging a cardiac patient suffered a fatal arrest three hours after discharge home.
• Defense verdict for a surgeon accused of causing extensive facial burning and scarring due to claimed misuse of a laser device.
• Defense verdict for a plastic surgeon charged with negligent nasal and forehead reconstruction surgery following Mohs removal of extensive skin cancers.
• Defense verdict for a pediatrician who allegedly failed to diagnose malignant melanoma and who purportedly altered the office EMR as part of a “cover-up.”
• Defense verdict for a vascular surgeon who allegedly misplaced  –and then failed to retrieve– a vena cava filter, which then migrated to the heart, perforated the superior vena cava and right atrium, and caused the patient’s death.
• Defense verdict for a general surgeon who allegedly clipped the common hepatic duct during laparoscopic gallbladder removal.
• Defense verdict for a radiologist alleged to have caused a severe anaphylactic reaction due to the contraindicated use of IV contrast.
• Defense verdict for a plastic surgeon in case involving claimed improperly performed bilateral brachioplasty.
• Directed verdict duirng trial for orthopedic surgeon who allegedly caused osteonecrosis during arthroscopy, thereby requiring total knee replacement.

Larry received his B.A. from Rutgers College and graduated from Pace University School of Law, cum laude, where he served as an editor of Pace Law Review. He is admitted to the New York and New Jersey state bars, federal court within the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and to the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals.

In addition to his defense work, Larry is actively involved in continuing legal education, mentors the firm’s junior attorneys and interns, and served as an “Attorney Courtroom Ethics” panelist at the NYS Bar Association’s Annual Conference.  He has also lectured on litigation topics, including: voir dire, taking and defending depositions, and medical records analysis. His past pro bono work includes successfully obtaining political asylum for a targeted Liberian refugee. Larry also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Half Hollow Hills Community Library, Dix Hills, New York.