Aaronson Rappaport is pleased to announce that it has elected Jonathan A. Meister to membership in the firm and has been selected as the firm’s next managing partner. Jonathan will be Aaronson Rappaport’s 3rd managing partner.   Jonathan has been extensively involved in the day-to-day management of the firm for many years, working under both Mark Feinstein and thereafter Nancy […]

Congratulations to the team of Nick Marotta, Nanor L. Terjanian and Michelle N. Lopez, successfully obtaining summary judgment in Queens County in a case involving claims that malpractice caused a infant to be born neurologically impaired. The plaintiff had alleged that Aaronson Rappaport’s client failed to provide proper prenatal medicine consultations and thus timely diagnose Intrauterine Growth […]

Congratulations to Robert Melnick and his litigation team for another defense verdict on behalf of an Aaronson Rappaport client! The case was venued in New York County.  Plaintiff alleged that our client performed an incorrect cervical spinal decompression surgery. As a result, plaintiff claimed he was left with continued compression resulting in the need for an […]

Congratulations to Jay Rappaport and his litigation team for another successful defense of an ARFD client!  The case was tried in New York County and involved claims that ARFD’s client, an orthopedic surgeon, failed to properly diagnose and treat a subluxation of bones in the plaintiff’s foot, and negligently advised the plaintiff to weight bear […]

Larry Bloomstein and Robert Isabella successfully obtained discontinuance of a breast surgeon charged with failing to biopsy a breast with suspicious findings found on mammography.  The patient later died due to metastatic breast cancer.  The litigation team successfully argued  before a Kings County trial judge on the eve of jury selection that a key expert […]

Lawrence W. Rosenblatt and his team were able to achieve dismissals on behalf of multiple ARFD clients in April and May in two  cases – in Queens and Kings Counties – as a result of summary judgment motions. The Queens matters involved issues surrounding the performance of emergent neurosurgical treatment by two neurosurgeons.  It was claimed […]

March 2018 – Congratulations to Larry Bloomstein and his team for successfully defending an Aaronson Rappaport client, a plastic surgeon, at trial in New York County! The plaintiff claimed the defendant surgeon improperly performed facial laser skin resurfacing in conjunction with PRP fat implantation into both temples. The claimed injuries included facial burns, MRSA infection […]

March 2018- Congratulations to Lawrence Rosenblatt and his team for a second successful defense of an Aaronson Rappaport client in March 2018. Mr. Rosenblatt was able to convince the court that the plaintiff did not offer sufficient evidence at trial to allow the case to go to the jury.

Amanda Zifchak successfully moved and argued for summary judgment on behalf of a large metropolitan medical institution and it’s affiliated physician in Kings County.  While the focus of the motion was on the applicable Statue of Limitations, the court also granted summary judgment on the medicine.  This was undoubtedly due to Amanda being able to […]

March 2018- Samuel Shapiro and his team successfully defended another Aaronson Rappaport client in the Bronx, resulting in a defense verdict. This was no easy task given that Bronx County is widely viewed as a “plaintiff-friendly” venue for medical malpractice cases. Well done! This win was the third trial victory for an Aaronson Rappaport client […]