Personal Injury
Duffy & Duffy’s lawyers handle a variety of personal injury cases, including cases where victims have been harmed in motor vehicle accidents, through negligence or work related injuries. Duffy & Duffy’s experienced lawyers can guide you through this process, working to make sure you receive justice.
As one of the preeminent trial firms in the nation, Duffy & Duffy, has the experience, tenacity and compassion to handle every aspect of your case. From our intake department and paralegals to associates and trial counselors you’ll find unparalleled professionals ready to answer any question, walk you through the legal process and ultimately fight for a favorable outcome. Each case however, is unique to that individual and situation. Each outcome will depend on the individual facts involved in each case.
This Web site includes information on some of the most common types of personal injury. If you have a question on a different incident, please do not hesitate to call Duffy & Duffy.
a case?
Failure to Investigate
Duffy & Duffy secured a $1,250,000 settlement on behalf of a family when physicians failed to properly investigate a suspicious right breast lump reported by the patient. Physicians did not perform a complete differential diagnosis...
(To read more click here)
Failure to Adhere to Proper Standards
Duffy & Duffy secured a $950,000 settlement on behalf of a family when a physician failed to properly adhere to proper medical standards and follow up with his patient who had been unable to tolerate an MRI...
(To read more click here)
Motor Vehicle Crash
Duffy & Duffy secured a $975,000 settlement following a motor vehicle accident. The patient suffered three hours of pain in the hospital, and eventually died, following a collision with a drunken driver...
(To read more click here)
Mismanaged Care
Duffy & Duffy secured a $3,000,000 settlement on behalf of a family when a physician’s mismanagement of prenatal care resulted in premature birth, leading to brain damage....
(To read more click here)
Negligence
Duffy & Duffy secured a $500,000 settlement on behalf of a family following negligent post-operative monitoring of a 5 year-old infant. A shunt revision for hydrocephalus led to wrongful death...
(To read more click here)
Failure to Act
Duffy & Duffy secured a $750,000 settlement on behalf of a family when physicians failed to properly perform a Morgan Clamp circumcision on a new born. In addition, physicians failed to timely recognize the extent and nature...
(To read more click here)
Misreading
Duffy & Duffy secured a $1,931,530 settlement on behalf of a family left fatherless after a rheumatologist misread a man's chest x-ray, failing to recognize lung cancer. Even though the man had a chronic cough...
(To read more click here)
Untimely Action
Duffy & Duffy secured a $6,250,000 settlement on behalf of a woman whose premature birth could have been prevented with a timely sonogram. As a result of the premature birth...
(To read more click here)
Two Verdicts, One Week
Duffy & Duffy secured two verdicts in one week on behalf of two Suffolk County families, both victims of medical malpractice and negligence. Duffy & Duffy proved that the first plaintiff’s doctor delayed in properly diagnosing his prostate cancer...
(To read more click here)
Equipment Misuse
Duffy & Duffy secured a $1.7 million verdict on behalf of a plaintiff that suffered a debilitating stroke when the surgeon negligently severed an artery during surgery to remove a tumor. Duffy & Duffy proved that the surgeon failed to properly utilize the appropriate surgical equipment when performing the surgery...
(To read more click here)
Prenatal Negligence
Duffy & Duffy secured a $6.6 million settlement on behalf of a female plaintiff when physicians failed to take her family’s history of disease into account during her pregnancy. The plaintiff’s medical history showed that her unborn baby had a one out of four chance of being born...
(To read more click here)
Failure to Act
Duffy & Duffy secured a $109 million verdict on behalf of a brain-injured plaintiff and his wife – the highest malpractice verdict in the United States that year. Duffy & Duffy proved that the doctors’ failure to treat...
(To read more click here)
Verdict Taps Montefiore for $19.2M
A paralyzed father of three plans to move from a nursing facility back home with his family after winning a $19.2 million negligence award…
(To read more click here)
Santa Comes Early to Needy Nassau Families
The volunteers' annual tradition of bringing gifts and delivering joy to needy families at Christmastime began in 1995 when Michael Santo, 53, a personal injury lawyer…
(To read more click here)
North Hills Doctor a Believer in Medical Tort Reform
Michael Duffy is quoted about tort reform: "The entire conversation has focused on whether money can be saved and physicians can be made to feel more comfortable," Duffy said…
(To read more click here)
Med Mal Justified, Say Lawyers
A Bronx jury recently awarded $20 million to a man who was paralyzed by an apparent medical error in 2004…
(To read more click here)
LI Law Firm Wins $20 Million Med Mal Verdict
A Bronx man has won a $20 million medical malpractice verdict in Bronx Supreme Court from a New York City hospital after a delay in his diagnosis...
(To read more click here)
Inappropriate Response
Duffy & Duffy secured a $7.3 million settlement just before trial reached the Suffolk Country Supreme Court, in Long Island, New York. On behalf of a female plaintiff, Duffy & Duffy proved the defendants failed to properly and appropriately respond to an emergency ...
(To read more click here)
Delay in Diagnosis
Duffy & Duffy secured a $19.2 million verdict in the Bronx Supreme Court in the 12th Judicial District on behalf of a 53-year-old male paraplegic plaintiff. Duffy & Duffy proved a delay in diagnosis and treatment of a spinal abscess resulted in paraplegia.
(To read more click here)
Brooklyn-Born Attorney Rises to Success in the Courts
A Brooklyn-born attorney who never attended law school followed his own path to success in the courtroom....
(To read more click here)
Botch Costs Hosp $19M
A jury has awarded $19.2 million to a Bronx man left paralyzed when doctors at Montefiore Hospital failed to promptly detect and treat...
(To read more click here)
