Aaronson Rappaport would like to congratulate trial partner, Robert Deutsch, who recently obtained a defense verdict in Queens County after the jury found that the defendant’s care did not cause plaintiff’s injuries. Mr. Deutsch was assisted on the case and at trial by associate, Daniel Oresajo. The case involved claims that the defendant surgeon failed to properly treat plaintiff’s postoperative infection with the appropriate antibiotics. While the jury found for the plaintiff on the liability question of whether the defendant failed to change the antibiotic in question following cultures that revealed a different bacteria not susceptible to the prescribed antibiotic,

Aaronson Rappaport proudly donated 370 backpacks filled with school supplies to patients and families of The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore as part of its Back(Pack) to School Corporate Social Responsibility Project. This donation allows many pediatric patients the opportunity to continue their studies and education, despite not being able to attend school due to illness. We look forward to our continued participation with this important and exceptional program. Below is the announcement in The Children’s Hospital’s Pediatrics Weekly Newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/f2f787fe5831/pediatrics-weekly-05012017-1290325?e=ed61797501

Congratulations to Aaronson Rappaport trial partner, Neil Brenes, and his trial team, Rupa Banik and Susan Formosa, who received a unanimous defense verdict in Queens County on July 30, 2019, on behalf of their client, a gynecologic surgeon. Plaintiff claimed that the surgeon took the wrong approach to surgery by performing a closed laparoscopy, rather than an open laparotomy, during a bilateral partial salpingectomy that allegedly resulted in an intra-abdominal hemorrhage, requiring an emergent laparotomy, in addition to the need for a hysterectomy due to vaginal prolapse and severe pain, causing infertility. At the close of the case, plaintiff’s counsel recommended

Aaronson Rappaport is proud to announce that Peter J. Fazio has been selected as a faculty member at the 47th Annual International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy held at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California. The IADC Trial Academy is the preeminent defense trial advocacy training program that provides an opportunity for lawyers looking to practice fundamental trial skills or those seeking to take their advocacy techniques and tactics to the next level. The seven-day intensive program blends faculty instruction and demonstration with individual student participation. More than 4,000 students have completed the program since 1973. The Trial