Insights

The opioid epidemic is not limited to adults. A 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that approximately 891,000 adolescents between the ages of 12 to 17 misused opioids in the prior year.

Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP was featured in New York’s Leaders in the Law 2018.

With the increased litigation against short- or long-term care facilities and hospitals relative to the care and treatment rendered to elderly patients, there is an associated increase in litigation against physicians specializing in geriatric and palliative care

Senior Trial Partner Bruce G. Habian and Senior Associate Jeffrey Stupak’s Motion for Summary Judgment was granted dismissing the defendant Hospital from an action in Supreme Court, Albany County.

MCB’s Summer 2018 Newsletter Features the Following Articles

Senior Partner Kenneth Larywon was invited to speak in the International Council of Ophthalmology’s World Ophthalmology Conference for 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movements.

In June 2018, Senior Trial Partner Anthony M. Sola, assisted by Partner Thomas Kroczynski, Associate Kerona Samuels and paralegal Marilyn Weiss obtained a defense verdict after a 2 week trial in Supreme Court, Queens County before Justice Earnest Hart.

Senior Trial Partner Anthony M. Sola, assisted by Of Counsel Tracy A. Abramson and Associate Jacqueline A. Wild, obtained a defense verdict after a 3 week trial in Supreme Court, Nassau County before Justice Thomas Feinman.

Plaintiff, a then 52-year-old woman with spondylolisthesis at L4 - L5, claimed that a pedicle screw was negligently placed during stabilization surgery performed by our client surgeon.