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You're driving down the road and things are fine.  A split second later, they're not. We're lucky – we live in a time when automobile safety standards are advancing and cars are becoming much...

Surgical items left in patients, or “foreign object” cases, happen more frequently than you would imagine in New York. This is almost always negligence Surgery is common.  It happens thousands of times per day at hospitals across the country.  Most of these surgeries are successful, some are not.  Most...

The Albany Times Union features a story about a D'Orazio Peterson employment discrimination client – a female firefighter who alleges severe sexual harassment over a period of many years.

https://youtu.be/BzkCvw7_wMM The website Medium.com recently published a fascinating, and extremely frightening, excerpt from a book entitled The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the...

The United States Supreme Court issued two decisions yesterday that adversely impact Plaintiffs in an already difficult employment law field. The first, in the case of Vance v. Ball State University, focused on how to define the term “supervisor”, which under Title VII of the Civil Rights act is significant. The Court...

https://youtu.be/3kF5G57ma4A Learn why medical malpractice cases are some of the most difficult.

DISCLAIMER: The results are specific to the facts and legal circumstances of each of the clients' cases and should not be used to form an expectation that the same results could be obtained for other clients...

We hear about situations where someone's surgery goes horribly wrong, but no one ever thinks it will happen to them. Thousands of people undergo surgery every single day, right? It is true that approximately...

New York Labor Law Section 206-c requires employers to give a nursing mother (whose child is up to three years of age) unpaid breaks in order to express breast milk.  The employer must provide the employee with written notice...

The Albany Times Union has reported that the New York State Assembly is set to take up as many as six pieces of the long debated...

https://youtu.be/BzkCvw7_wMM People do not call lawyers when things go right at a hospital, rehabilitation facility, or nursing home. They call us...

“My supervisor is generally disrespecful towards me, and told me that dealing with my kids is a weekend issue, not a workplace issue.  Is this legal?” This question, a very commone one, raises two important issues. The first is that New York is what is known as an “at-will”...