Personal Injury

Bruce has dedicated most of his professional life to the representation of victims who have sustained serious personal injury as a result of the carelessness of individuals or the negligence of companies that have manufactured defective products or have devoted insufficient attention to safety on the job site.

As a young attorney, Bruce prosecuted lawsuits in behalf of victims who suffered serious personal injuries due to defective products.  Bruce has been involved in litigation against, for example, manufacturers of defective power presses, table saws and defective tractors.  Those actions have been litigated both in the federal and state court systems.

Bruce has prosecuted, moreover, cases in which he has represented clients who have been seriously injured due to unsafe construction site conditions.  Some of those matters include, for example, significant personal injuries arising out of collapsing scaffolds; failing hoists; defective platforms; or dangerous construction equipment and unsafe ladders.

Where injuries have arisen out of employment, Bruce has advised clients, furthermore, concerning worker’s compensation and social security disability benefits in those instances where supplemental sources of income are available to workers.

Throughout his career, Bruce has recovered millions of dollars in money damages for victims who have experienced pain and suffering as well as lost wages and lost income arising out of serious accidents. Bruce has recovered substantial money damages for clients who have suffered serious bodily injuries and for the estates of families whose family members have suffered wrongful death.

Additionally, Bruce has represented consumers in a host of litigation matters involving serious motor vehicle accidents that include, for example, wrongful death; significant accidents occurring on dangerous premises, including unsafe stairways and walkways; and injuries occurring on unsafe roadways and sidewalks where there has been snow, ice or defective pavement.

Further, in matters where there has been substantial evidence of hospital or physician liability, Bruce has represented victims who were seriously injured due to medical malpractice.

Bruce has represented victims who have been falsely arrested and imprisoned; and Bruce has advised clients in a large range of other matters involving negligence, including, for example, exposure to toxic mold. Bruce continues, additionally, to monitor the work of a newly formed toxic mold task force that seeks to explore toxic mold in the State of New York.

Bruce is involved, furthermore,  in advising on matters involving autism that coincided with the administration of the MMR vaccine-for mumps, measles and rubella-and Bruce monitors the work of the Federal Court of Claims that hears vaccination cases arising under a special federal statute.

Bruce has tried cases in the Supreme Court of the State of New York and argued appeals before the appellate courts on both the state and federal levels.

Bruce acts to insure that his clients’ legal interests are vigorously advanced, while focusing on medical and economic issues that are of central concern to his clients.