Cases & Experience

Why did this injury happen?

Serious injury or death is sometimes due to the wrongful conduct of others, and the victim or family seeks answers. Why did this happen? Was it preventable? Is someone legally responsible? People deserve answers to these questions. This firm seeks the answers for our clients and strives to hold the individual or corporation responsible for their misconduct. The Schifferman firm has experience in matters including injuries due to medical negligence, defective products, and motor vehicles. We have handled these questions since 1980. This includes almost 20 years representing defendants and working with insurance companies. This experience gives us insight and understanding that helps our injured clients today.

Each case is evaluated to determine its merits, and we offer our best advice to the client. The investigation may include interviews, gathering records, and evaluation by outside experts in their field. We can give you the advice you deserve and take you through each phase of the case: filing the complaint, discovery, handling motions, settlement negotiations and trial. If an appeal occurs, we associate the best appellate attorneys available to defend your rights.

Medical Negligence

The National Institute of Medicine estimated 98,000 Americans die each year due to preventable errors. Many more are injured. These are not just bad outcomes. They are mistakes that should not occur.

Preventable medical errors cause devastating injuries to patients and their families. There are not only the obvious injuries but the sense of betrayal that the health care field failed.

We can help answer the questions so you know whether a mistake was made and whether someone should be held accountable. These are complicated questions that require expertise and experience. These are among the most difficult and complicated cases. Medicine and science are technical subjects and not easily mastered. Our experience since 1980 allows us to help our clients.

Insurance companies have the money, resources, and desire to defend every case vigorously. The victim's lawyer must be able to match that effort. Our years working in the field give us the ability to fully represent you.

Each case is fully investigated to determine whether the case has merit. This typically includes collecting all pertinent medical records and reviewing them with qualified experts in the field. We have contacts in all medical fields and seek objective medical opinions to evaluate the care and learn the cause of an injury or death.

The firm has extensive experience in these cases. We have handled hundreds of cases involving misdiagnosis, medication errors, birth injury, improper surgery, and failure to monitor.

Nursing Homes

As we age we worry about who will take care of us when we can no longer care for ourselves. Sometimes we just need extended care following an injury. We put our trust in nursing and rehabilitation homes when we and our loved ones are most vulnerable.

We can help you when the nursing home or rehabilitation facility fails to provide proper care. Homes need to provide a safe environment free of abuse or neglect. They must provide safe medical care by competent doctors and nurses. They must put their own financial interest second to the care and safety of their residents.

Some of our clients were victims of failure to perform diagnostic tests as ordered, failure to care for pressure sores, failure to order tests and failure to act upon abnormal test results. In each case we help find the truth and to hold them accountable.

Defective Products

Corporations have an obligation to make reasonably safe products that do not injure consumers. They cannot put profits ahead of people. As individuals we have a right to know the products we use are safe.

We have extensive litigation experience with drugs, vaccines, medical devices, tools and household goods. When possible we seek to have the product changed and consumers notified of the defect.

Motor vehicle

Through a thorough investigation and reconstruction we can find out why a collision occurred and whether someone is responsible. We have experience in cases against individual drivers, companies and government agencies in highway design and negligent drivers. We also have the knowledge to find all the applicable insurance available. We can help coordinate your multiple insurance coverages.