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We will consider matters of a serious nature in the following areas:

Personal Injury

* Construction Accidents
o Falls from scaffolding, ladders and lifts
o Cranes and hoists negligently operated
o Objects falling during demolition
o Walls or floors crushing laborers
o Welding injuries
o Explosion and toxic injuries due to flammable substances

* Automobile Accidents
o Pedestrian knockdowns
o Passengers in heavy impact multi vehicle collision
o Motorcycle accidents
o Vehicles improperly repaired causing loss of control
o Roadway design defect causing vehicle to leave travel lane
o Improperly operating traffic lights and signals
o Hit and run accidents

* Premises Issues
o Lead paint poisoning of children
o Fires in apartment buildings caused by faulty electrical systems
o Tenants injured in fires because of defective or missing smoke detectors
o Stairwells and hallways having defects causing people to fall
o Rapes and assaults in buildings (commercial and residential) and hotels due to improper security, such as broken locks and doors
o Defective appliances or equipment in apartment
o Shower water that suddenly becomes scalding hot
o Exploding ovens and gas


Medical Malpractice

* Birth Injuries resulting in brain damage
* ERBS Palsy
* Failure to Diagnose Conditions:
o Cancer such as breast, prostate, cervical, ovarian, etc.

* Surgical errors:
o Doctor operates on wrong body part
o Negligently performed surgery
o Post-operation care that is neglectful leading to infection
o Foreign object left in body
o Doctor fails to inform patient of surgical risks


Nursing Home and Elder Abuse

Product Drug Liability

* Vioxx and Celebrex adverse reactions


Automobiles not designed safely

Factory machine liability

* Improperly designed such as cut off switches and safety Guards in wrong location


Pharmacist gives wrong medication

Asbestos Exposure

Crime Victim Compensation

Gastric Bypass Malpractice

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Malpractice

Injured By The Ab Lounge?

Crime Victim Compensation
If you or a loved one is a victim of a crime that occured in a hotel, your world and your sense of security in the world, has been forever damaged. Depending on the circumstances of the crime and when the crime happened, you or your loved one may be entitled to:

* 1.Crime victims compensation benefits payable by your state government, AND;
* 2.The right to bring a lawsuit for money damages against the assailant or against another person, corporation or entity, that made it possible for the violent crime to occur.



At the law firm of Simonson Hess & Leibowitz, P.C., we will provide to you a free, private consultation where we will advise you of all of your rights. Our staff, which includes a trained, certified rape counselor and a nurse, will discreetly and sensitively discuss with you the facts of the circumstances leading up to the violent crime.

Crimes that occur in hotels, or apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, motels, sponsored trips or vacations may give rise to liability and responsibility on the part of others for negligence or carelessness.

Please contact us so that we may help you with information as to your rights.

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Licensed in New York and New Jersey.

Gastric Bypass Malpractice
Gastric bypass surgery problems and complications can plague those who are victims of malpractice. Simonson Hess & Leibowitz, P.C., works with victims to ensure that your rights are protected.

Common signs of Gastric Bypass malpractice:

* Your doctor failed to immediately respond to your complaints about gastric bypass surgery problems.
* You had leaking that resulted in infection from gastric bypass surgery.
* You experienced excessive pain shortly after your gastric bypass surgery.
* You were adversely affected by serious complications such as clotting, difficult breathing, or kidney problems.
* Your doctor did not monitor your post-operative recovery.


Paul Simonson, Steven Hess and Alan Leibowitz work for injured patients only. We do not represent doctors or hospitals. Personal and individualized service is our hallmark. During more than twenty years of practice, the firm has recovered in excess of $250 million dollars on behalf of injured clients. Gastric bypass surgery problems and complications can plague those who are victims of malpractice. Simonson Hess & Leibowitz, P.C., works with victims to ensure that your rights are protected.

We work together with a team that includes experienced registered nurses and certified paralegals while maintaining working relationships with expert doctors in gastric bypass surgery, emergency, and critical care. We carefully evaluate your gastric bypass surgery malpractice case and formulate a personalized legal strategy designed to maximize your monetary recovery. When necessary, we add to our team a qualified attorney in your local area.

We do not earn our fee unless we obtain money on your behalf. Any costs incurred, such as depositions, investigation reports, medical reports, hospital records, experts' fees and expenses for other testimony and evidence, transportation, and other reasonable expenses shall be advanced and paid by our firm and will be deducted at the end of the case from the gross recovery. Fees shall be computed on the amount remaining after the deduction of expenses. If there is no recovery, although you remain liable for expenses, we are not obligated to seek from you reimbursement for expenses.

There is no fee for a gastric bypass surgery malpractice consultation. If you want to know more about finding gastric bypass malpractice, call us toll-free at 1-888-745-3555 or contact us.

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Licensed in New York and New Jersey.

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Malpractice
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy surgery problems and complications can plague those who are victims of malpractice. Simonson Hess & Leibowitz, P.C., works with victims to ensure that your rights are protected.

Common signs of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy malpractice:

* Your doctor failed to immediately respond to your complaints about lap choly surgery problems.
* You had leaking that resulted in infection from gall bladder surgery.
* You required additional or corrective surgery following your laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
* You needed to have your common bile duct dilated after your lap choly surgery.
* You had to be rehospitalized after your gall bladder surgery.
* You experienced excessive pain shortly after your laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
* Your doctor did not monitor your post-operative recovery.

When any minimally invasive surgery such as Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy is successful, it can be a real blessing. When it is not, it can be a personal and family catastrophe. Our job is to help you sort out laparoscopic cholescystectomy malpractice from unpreventable problems.

Because laparoscopic surgery is done using a television camera and instruments, some surgeons find it difficult to orient themselves to the gall bladder and other organs. This can lead to cutting or damaging the common bile duct or hepatic ducts. Cutting or damaging these important structures can lead to bile leak, infection, bile peritonitis, abscess and death. In addition, the common bile duct may become so narrowed that extensive dilatation or reconstructive surgery is needed. Some patients are left with permanent pain and serious digestive problems.

Leaking of bile usually causes symptoms of pain and breathing difficulties, and any symptoms that might be due to a bile leak must be taken seriously by the surgeon and investigated. The failure by the health care providers to take the patients complaints seriously, and quickly act, is a prime example of malpractice. All too often the patient is discharged from the hospital despite evidence of a bile leak.

It is crucial that the surgeon take the time to educate patient and family on the symptoms of postoperative bile leak together with the need to immediately call the surgeon or return to the hospital if symptoms appear. Never hesitate to return to the emergency room if the surgeon is not taking the complaints seriously, or you can't get in touch with him/her. The presence of a leak can often be confirmed by common x-ray imaging studies.

When a bile leak is occurring, time is of the essence so that irreversible bile peritonitis and infection leading to organ failure and perhaps death does not occur. Repair of bile duct injuries or strictures(narrowing) may require a very experienced surgeon-make sure your doctor refers you to such a surgeon if there is any doubt of his competence to help you.

Se habla español.

Licensed in New York and New Jersey.

Injured By The Ab Lounge?
The Product Liability Department of the firm is now accepting cases involving injuries caused by the exercise equipment known as Ab Lounge, Ab Lounge 2 and Ab Lounge Ultimate Exercisers; all distributed by Fitness Quest, Inc. When opening or folding up these exercise machines, consumers can catch their fingers in the hinges.

Simonson Hess & Leibowitz, P.C. has had extensive case experience and has recovered multi-million dollar awards for clients seriously injured as a result of defective products.

Simonson Hess & Leibowitz PC
15 Maiden Ln
New York NY 10038
Tel: 212 233-5000; 888 745-3555