{"id":84980,"date":"2025-12-30T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84980\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:01:09","slug":"li-based-law-firm-expands-to-bronx-boosts-malpractice-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84980\/","title":{"rendered":"LI-based law firm expands to Bronx, boosts malpractice support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A medical malpractice law firm with an office in Uniondale has expanded into the Bronx, having already won an <a href=\"https:\/\/libn.com\/tag\/80-million-verdict\/?taxo-tag-body\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with $80 million verdict\" target=\"_blank\">$80 million verdict<\/a> in that county.\n<\/p>\n<p>Duffy &amp; Duffy, which has an office at RXR Plaza, now also has a location at 388 Canal Place in the Bronx to strengthen its capacity in serving residents and families in the borough on medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and personal injury matters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpening an office in the Bronx is about showing up for the community\u201d Michael Duffy, managing partner and general counsel at Duffy &amp; Duffy, told LIBN.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBronx families deserve accessible, high-level legal representation close to home, especially when they\u2019ve been harmed by preventable medical negligence,\u201d Duffy said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The firm secured the $80 million verdict in 2022, for a client who suffered permanent neurocognitive injuries, after a jury found that Jacobi Medical Center, part of NYC <a href=\"https:\/\/libn.com\/tag\/health\/?taxo-tag-body\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with health\" target=\"_blank\">Health<\/a> &amp; Hospitals, was negligent. The client was born at 23 weeks following inadequate prenatal care, despite a known history of cervical weakness in the mother. The client suffered catastrophic injuries, including cerebral palsy, chronic lung disease, and profound intellectual and developmental disabilities.\n<\/p>\n<p>James LiCalzi, partner and associate general counsel at Duffy &amp; Duffy, said in a news release that had \u201cthe doctors had provided our client\u2019s mother with the proper medical care required under the circumstances, this tragedy could have been prevented.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Duffy &amp; Duffy cited the case as an example of its work on medical accountability matters in the Bronx. The opening of the Bronx office further expands the firm\u2019s capacity to handle such matters for the community, according to the news release.\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to serving Long Island and New York City, the firm also serves clients in Westchester County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A medical malpractice law firm with an office in Uniondale has expanded into the Bronx, having already won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[41414,128,41415,41416,41417,41418,41419,41420,9,24,9634,63,41421,2152,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-84980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-80-million-verdict","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-law-firm","tag-duffy-duffy","tag-legal-expansion","tag-long-island-law-firm","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-negligence","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nursing-home-abuse","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-law","tag-personal-injury","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}