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This program sponsored by The Association of The Bar of the City Of New York will be held on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:00 am – 9:15 am at The New York City Bar, 42 West 44th Street, Stimson Room.

The program will focus on various aspects of litigating medical malpractice cases, with attention to pitfalls of practice and other insights, all as viewed from the perspective of an experienced trial judge and two seasoned practitioners. The distinguished panel will consist of The Honorable Douglas E. McKeon, J.S.C. and two members of the medical malpractice bar, Ben B. Rubinowitz, Esq., Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf, and Glenn W. Dopf, Esq., Kopff, Nardelli & Dopf, LLP. Justice McKeon will serve as speaker and moderator.
To register click here.

Our partner, Jeffrey B. Bloom, was recently quoted in New York Newsday about the proposed legislative changes to New York’s Medical Malpractice Insurance laws.

Mr. Bloom said that the administration proposed giving doctors a 6 to 7 percent reduction in premiums, establishing new patient safety provisions, helping the handful of malpractice insurers take excess liability off their books, and re-establishing an assessment so all the state’s property and casualty companies would support the malpractice high-risk pool, not just those few writing malpractice insurance.

However, with the collapse of the financial market and troubles at insurance giant AIG, the program bill was put on hold.

Although the granting of Summary Judgment motions in New York Automobile Accidents is rare our Partner Howard S. Hershenhorn, Partner Rhonda E. Kay on the brief, successfully argued the denial of Plaintiff’s Summary Judgment Motion in Kelly v. City of New York et al. Notably, The Court relied on Kirchgaessner v Hernandez, 40 AD3d 437 [2007]) another one of Howard’s successful reversals of a denial of a Plaintiff’s Summary Judgment Motion in an Automobile Accident Case.

Our partner, Robert L. Conason, is the Chair of The New York State Trial Lawyers Seminar, Communicating A theme During Jury Selection to be held on March 19th, 2009, 132 Nassau Street, New York City. For more information click here.

Our Partner, Ben B. Rubinowitz, is The Chair of The New York State Trial Lawyers Association Seminar MASTERS SERIES-OPENING STATEMENTS & SUMMATIONS to be held on February 24th and March 24th, 2009 at 132 Nassau Street, New York City. Our Partner, Robert L. Conason will also be participating in the program. For more information click here.

New York Construction Accidents

Our Partners Anthony H. Gair, Howard S. Hershenhorn and Christopher L. Sallay co-authored, Recalcitrant Worker and Sole Proximate Cause-The Current State of Labor Law § 240 which was published in The New York State Bar Association Trial Lawyers Section Digest, Fall 2008.

Our Partner, Howard S. Hershenhorn is The Overall Planning Chair Of This New York State Bar Association Program. Also Participating from our Firm are Ben B. Rubinowitz, Chair of The Long Island Program. Our partners, Robert L. Conason and Anthony H. Gair will also be speaking at the program. Below are Links to the locations and dates and description of the Program.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 Albany – www.nysba.org/ConstructionSiteAccidentsAlbany

Friday, November 21, 2008 Syracuse – www.nysba.org/ConstructionSiteAccidentsSyracuse

From USA Today – Michael Dowd, center and Ben Rubinowitz, attorneys for the plaintiffs in $150 million lawsuit against Diocese of Rockville Centre, embrace after the jury returned a verdict in their favor, Friday, May 18, 2007 in Mineola, N.Y.. Awarding their clients a combined a combined $11.4 million in damages, the jury found the nation’s sixth-largest Roman Catholic diocese and a church parish negligent in a case involving a youth minister who repeatedly raped and sodomized teenagers in his care over several years. Kevin McNiff, the attorney representing the Diocese of Rockville Centre, is seen at left rear.