Practice Areas
The Areas of our Legal Practice are listed below. To learn more
about an specific area, click on that practice area.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
In the field of medical malpractice the issue is whether the doctor
deviated from accepted standards of care for the average practitioner in
his field so as to cause plaintiff an injury. The medical malpractice
may consist of the doing of an act which the average practitioner would
not do or the failure to do an act which the average practitioner would
do. The issue of causation is often as hotly contested as is the issue
of medical malpractice itself. This firm looks for cases involving
substantial damages in order to make the case one which is economically
viable.
HOSPITAL NEGLIGENCE
This field involves the negligence of a hospital through its employees,
nurses, physicians or lack of corporate responsibility for an injury
caused to an individual while the person is a patient at the hospital.
Nursing errors and prescription medication errors are more common then
the average person thinks in the field of hospital negligence. This firm
has special expertise in dealing with pharmacy related errors in the
hospital setting such as overdoses of chemotherapy, radiation and
general prescription medication.
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PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS
Pharmaceutical products deals with drugs that are sold by prescription
which have dangerous side effects, adverse reactions and toxic effects
particularly when the product is not adequately labeled in terms of
warnings. As a registered pharmacist, Larry L. Leifer, Esq. is very well
suited to handle cases of pharmaceutical products that do not measure up
to accepted standards.
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PHARMACIST MISTAKES AND LIABILITY
This field deals with errors of a pharmacist at a retail level or
hospital level in dispensing medication which is improper, the wrong
dose, the wrong drug, the wrong sequence and dosage. As a registered
pharmacist with ten years of experience in retail pharmacy as well as a
lawyer with 35 years of experience Larry L. Leifer is well suited to
handle pharmacist mistakes. We look for serious mistakes making a
substantial impact on a person’s life in order to justify pursuing this
type of claim.
MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS
This law firm handles all type of motor vehicle accidents involving
cars, trucks, buses, trains, pedestrian knock downs and has been doing
so for close to 38 years. We are well versed in all aspects of motor
vehicle litigation.
CHEMICALS AND DRUGS
This area of practice deals with dangerous chemicals and drugs which
cause an individual serious toxicological harm.
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Dangerous Machinery
This firm has handled machine guard cases where the machinery fails to
have an appropriate guard and an individual loses a hand or a limb as a
result of failure of machine to have adequate guarding. We have also
handled a variety of other types of dangerous machinery from lawn mowers
to bull dozers.
DELAY IN DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER
The law firm of Leifer, Levine & Associates holds itself out as having special
expertise in the field of delay in diagnosis of cancer. This firm has
successfully handled cases involving breast cancer, urologic cancer,
prostate cancer, bladder cancer, various forms of gynecologic cancer. It
is a complex field involving the issues of malpractice, delay in
diagnosis, causation, pre-existing injury and the ultimate result.
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PERSONAL INJURY
This is a broad field of all types of negligence cases and in general
involving some negligent act which causes another person to sustain an
injury where there is a duty to exercise reasonable care on the part of
the tort-feasor. Leifer, Levine & Associates has handled a broad variety of personal
injury claims over the last 38 years.
UNSAFE PREMISES
This is a field which usually involves slip and falls, defective
conditions at houses, apartment buildings, sidewalks, back yards,
amusement centers, bars, all of which the law firm of Leifer, Levine &
Associates
has handled successfully in the past.
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WRONGFUL DEATH
This field involves the wrongful death of an individual due to the
negligence of some third party. Under the wrongful death statute an
individual has two years from the date of a person’s death in which to
file a complaint in court. After the two years it is too late to file a
complaint in Court in New Jersey. The measure of damages in a wrongful
death case is pecuniary loss to those individuals related and dependant
upon the decedent. Examples would be wage earners, housewives, husbands
and children with the potential to care for their parent’s in their
parents later years.
BIRTH INJURIES
This firm has successfully handled birth injuries including cerebral
palsy type injuries, brain damage, spastic quadriplegia, erps palsy,
brachial plexus injuries and failure to render genetic counseling.
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