Lawrence W. Rosenblatt, Partner

Lawrence W. Rosenblatt is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School. Prior to entering law school, he worked for several Fortune 500 retailers in management and operations.

Lawrence manages complex medical malpractice and civil litigation matters with multi-million-dollar exposures from inception through trial, focusing on obtaining excellent results in a cost-effective manner. Lawrence has obtained numerous defense and directed verdicts, as well as dismissals on summary judgment and Frye motions, for his clients throughout New York. He is a member of the firm’s Executive and Marketing Committees.

Admitted to all New York State courts and the Federal courts of New York, Eastern and Southern Districts, Lawrence also manages complex litigation matters in New Jersey.

Lawrence is an invited member of the prestigious Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM). Selected attorneys and law firms are extended membership by invitation only based on nominations from CLM Fellows. Lawrence has served as CLM’s Chair of its National Medical Malpractice Sub-Committee and has been a panel speaker at national and regional conferences on the subjects of defense strategies employed in high exposure medical malpractice matters as well as in Frye and Daubert motion practice. Lawrence is a former member of the New York City Bar Association’s Medical Malpractice Committee and has achieved a peer-reviewed AV-rating by Martindale-Hubbell.  He is annually nominated for inclusion in such publications as New York -Metro Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators in multiple practice areas.

Practice areas include professional negligence, general liability, premises, construction, auto and employment law, with an emphasis on high-exposure medical malpractice, catastrophic injury and general liability matters in the greater New York and New Jersey areas.

Representative Verdicts/Summary Judgment Results:

• Westchester County – Defense Verdict for a pediatric gastroenterologist in a medical malpractice matter action, where it was claimed there was a failure to include anorectal malformation in a differential diagnosis, resulting in the subsequent failure to perform a digital rectal examination on a 3-month old infant. It was claimed that this alleged failure resulted in a 12-week delay in diagnosis of a severe congenital anal stenosis, resulting in a colonic neuropathy from severe and prolonged constipation, loss of chance of achieving lifelong continence. During summations, plaintiff requested damages in excess of 25 million dollars.  After three hours of deliberations over two days, the jury returned a unanimous 6-0 verdict in favor of the physician.
• Dutchess County – Defense Verdict for a regional health network and its cardiovascular practice in a medical malpractice action, where it was claimed that negligent supervision and positioning during cardiac scanning resulted in injury to the 50-year-old male patient’s shoulder, resulting in numerous operations and ultimately reverse shoulder replacement with permanent disability to his dominant arm. After deliberations, the jury returned a unanimous 6-0 verdict for the defendant.
• Kings County – Directed Verdict for a urologist in a medical malpractice/wrongful death action involving allegations of following to prevent, timely recognize and treat a systemic infection following elective prostate biopsy that resulted in death within a week of the biopsy. After plaintiff rested, Mr. Rosenblatt successfully argued, by reference to the trial transcript, that the plaintiff failed to establish proximate cause and that the only departure opined by plaintiff’s expert was a hypothetical one, which was not established through the testimony of the plaintiff, resulting in the case being dismissed prior to the defense having to put on a case.
• Queens County – Defense Verdict for an emergency medicine physician and Long Island hospital in a medical malpractice/wrongful death action involving claims of failing to timely diagnose and treat a pulmonary embolism resulting in death.  Notably, the jury unanimously (6-0) found Mr. Rosenblatt’s clients not liable on all six departure questions that the Court allowed the jury to consider.
• Kings County – Directed Verdict for a Brooklyn hospital in a medical malpractice/wrongful death action involving claims of a retained foreign object following surgery alleged to have resulted in the patient’s death.
• Kings County – Defense Verdict in medical malpractice/wrongful death action, where it was claimed that the defendant endoscopist failed to properly monitor and appreciate worsening vital signs, leading to the arrest and death of a patient in his 50s, during an elective colonoscopy.
• Kings County – Defense Verdict for a vascular surgeon in a medical malpractice action, where it was alleged, the plaintiff suffered permanent neurologic injury.  Following closing arguments, the jury found for Mr. Rosenblatt’s client, returning a unanimous 6-0 defense verdict in under 15 minutes.
• Richmond County – Defense Verdict for an infectious disease consultant in a medical malpractice action, where it was alleged, the physician did not properly treat an infection, leading to permanent disability in one of the patient’s legs. After deliberations, the jury returned a unanimous 6-0 verdict of no liability on behalf of the physician.
• Dutchess County – Directed Verdict for a hospital in a medical malpractice action, where it was claimed that the hospital was vicariously liable for the actions of the co-defendant surgeon.  Mr. Rosenblatt successfully argued at the close of evidence that the plaintiff did not elicit sufficient evidence during trial to allow the claim to be considered by the jury and the Court agreed.
• Kings County – Summary Judgment for a Brooklyn hospital in a bed sore case. During oral argument, plaintiff was forced to concede deficiencies in the plaintiff’s expert’s affirmation, Mr. Rosenblatt arguing that the expert’s opinions did not properly provide causal connection – to either conscious pain and suffering or death.
• Queens County – Summary Judgment leading to dismissal for two neurosurgeons involving claims surrounding the performance of emergent neurosurgical treatment.  Mr. Rosenblatt retained a leading expert in the field to proffer an affidavit in support of the motion, compelling plaintiff’s counsel to discontinue the case against the two neurosurgeons.
• Kings County – Summary Judgment for an internist, where it was alleged that there was a failure to timely diagnose and treat prostate cancer, leading to metastasis and shortened life expectancy.  Mr. Rosenblatt, aside from arguing that the internist comported within good and accepted care, also demonstrated that  there was no actual proof of metastatic disease given the plaintiff’s refusal to undergo biopsy;  that the plaintiff’s life expectancy was not statistically shortened given the number of years since treatment was concluded with no recurrence;  and, that the plaintiff’s expert’s arguments were conclusory, an argument adopted by the court in its decision dismissing the case as to all defendants.
• Bronx County – Summary Judgment in a dental malpractice case, arguing that plaintiff’s expert affidavit was conclusory and did not adequately refute the opinions offered by the defendant’s expert.