Professional Malpractice

BIREN/KATZMAN'S Attorneys Successfully Handle All Types Of Professional Negligence Cases

Virtually everyone hires a professional at some point. Unfortunately, professionals sometimes do not meet the standard of care in their profession - conduct equating to professional negligence or malpractice. If you've been seriously injured or damaged as a result of a professional's negligent conduct, you should contact the law office of BIREN/KATZMAN for a free consultation.

Our attorneys have developed handling techniques designed to maximize our clients' recoveries professional negligence or malpractice cases. For example:

• Liability Disputes - BIREN/KATZMAN has proven liability in extremely complicated professional negligence cases where the professionals and their lawyers and experts claimed that the professional did nothing wrong. We accomplished proving liability in these cases by extraordinarily thorough investigation, combined with use of the best experts and, when appropriate, high tech tools, such as computer modeling.
  
  
• Examples of Professional Negligence Cases - By far the most common form of professional negligence is medical malpractice. A related form of professional negligence is nursing home negligence and elder abuse. Unfortunately, often times when medical professionals make mistakes the resulting injuries are catastrophic. By contrast, when lawyers or architects or brokers or other professionals mess up, the losses are usually monetary; sometimes huge financial losses. The number of ways that professionals can make mistakes is infinite. BIREN/KATZMAN specializes in analyzing and proving when professionals have acted negligently.
  
  
• Maximizing damages - It isn't enough to establish liability, the outcome of a client's case also depends on proving the full extent of damages. BIREN/KATZMAN knows how to find the best experts to maximize damages. In injury cases, this would involve medical experts who can not only diagnose and treat the most sophisticated injuries, but just as importantly can effectively communicate their findings. We work with economists (to establish the monetary losses of our clients), vocational rehabilitationists (to establish the impact of the injury on the client's earnings capacity), life care planners (to establish future care needs and the costs involved) and a host of other types of damage experts, all geared to maximizing our client's recoveries. Use of experts and creativity is especially important to demonstrate the full measure of damages in malpractice cases resulting in wrongful death.
  
  
• Team Approach / Principal Lawyer Handling - BIREN/KATZMAN is unique in that every case accepted by the firm is handled from start to finish by the firm's principals, Matthew B.F. Biren and Marc J. Katzman. Every case is approached on a team basis where every member of the firm works on the case. This team approach involving hands-on involvement of the principal lawyers is much different than how most firms work, where the handling is basically done by an associate and the senior lawyers only get involved, if at all, in the later stages of the case. Our clients profit from this approach because they not only get the benefit of our senior lawyers' extensive experience and knowledge, but they also get the input from many people, which substantially increases the creative ideas generated about handling, which translates to better results.

Our lawyers at BIREN/KATZMAN Trial Lawyers have achieved extraordinary recoveries for clients damaged as a result of professional negligence, including:

• A manager for a famous singer filed suit to collect commissions which the singer was refusing to pay after a successful road tour. The lawyer failed to take actions required by the court, resulting in the manager's claim being dismissed. BIREN/KATZMAN recovered $1.5 million for the manager in a confidential settlement of his legal malpractice action against the negligent lawyers.
  
  
• A construction worker who ended up paralyzed as a result of his surgeon's failure to diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome and perform the necessary emergency surgery collected $1,575,000 in a confidential settlement of his medical malpractice action against the negligent neurosurgeon.
  
  
• A little girl who suffered brain damage when her mother's gynecologist failed to realize that a C-section should have been ordered because of the baby's size and then failed to respond appropriately to a shoulder dystocia which occurred during delivery recovered the maximum insurance benefits available from the doctor in a confidential settlement of her medical malpractice case.

If you have suffered a serious personal injury, such as traumatic brain injuries or spinal cord injuries like paraplegia, quadriplegia or damaged cervical or lumbar discs or a substantial financial loss as a result of professional negligence, you should contact the office of BIREN/KATZMAN to schedule a free initial consultation to review your potential case. Your consultation is free. Your recovery could begin today.

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