Insights

Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP is pleased to announce that Jessica A. Bresnan has been named as a Partner of the Firm, effective January 1, 2015. Jessica joined the Firm as a first year associate in 2008.

Senior Trial Partner Jeff Lawton won a unanimous defense verdict in New York County involving the timing of a repair procedure for an abdominal perforation.

The Partners of Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP were selected for inclusion in the December 23, 2014 issue of Legal Leaders as seen in New York Magazine, the New York Law Journal, Wall Street Journal, Connecticut Law Tribune and New Jersey Law Journal.

Senior Partner, Jeffrey A. Shor, recently received a defense verdict in Supreme Court, Nassau County in a case involving a 46-year-old federal air marshal, who underwent a surgical excision of the plantar heal spur and plantar fascia tenotomy performed.

Senior Trial Partner John J. Barbera recently obtained a malpractice defense verdict in Supreme Court, Dutchess County. The case involved an 81-year-old previously ambulatory woman who was permanently confined to a wheelchair following hip replacement surgery.

Senior Partner Bruce G. Habian obtained a defense verdict in Supreme Court, Queens County in a case involving a patient with 22 3/7 gestation pregnancy who presented with contraction activity, and severe dilated membranes.

Partners Joseph L. DeMarzo and Stewart G. Milch recently won an important victory in the Appellate Division, First Department in a long term care facility wrongful death case. MCB represented a facility where plaintiff’s mother had been a resident.

Senior Trial Partner Jeff Lawton won a defense verdict in Queens County in a case involving an alleged perforation following a first trimester termination of pregnancy procedure on a 20-year-old patient.

Partner Erik Kapner received a unanimous defense verdict in Supreme Court, Kings County in a case involving a diabetic patient who underwent drainage of a foot ulcer.

During the performance of several types of spinal surgical procedures, some spine surgeons utilize a bone graft substitute, Bone Morphogenetic Protein, to stimulate spinal fusion.