VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
Since the firm first opened in 1996, Duffy & Duffy has developed into the region’s largest and most successful plaintiff’s medical malpractice firm. We have successfully settled more than 250 medical malpractice cases since 2006, including 70 multi-million dollar settlements.
Some highlights of our success include, the highest personal injury verdict in the country (2007); the third highest verdict in New Jersey history (2008); the second highest medical malpractice verdict in Suffolk County history (2003); and, the highest recorded medical malpractice settlement in Suffolk County (2004).
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Life’s WORC Announces Two New Board Members – Mineloa American
Life’s WORC, a private, not-for-profit organization announced the addition of two new board members…
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LI People on the Move - Newsday
Mary Ellen Duffy, a partner at Duffy & Duffy, has been appointed to the Life’s WORC Board of Directors…
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News in Brief - New York Law Journal
Duffy & Duffy, a medical malpractice firm in Uniondale, has added two of counsels from Levine & Grossman: Mary Rita Wallace and Frank Torres…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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....
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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...
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