New Jersey (Monmouth County, NJ) & Long Island (Nassau County, NY) Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death and Catastrophic Personal Injury Lawyers

At the law firm of Cerussi & Gunn, P.C., our attorneys focus their law practice on medical malpractice, wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, and nursing home neglect.  Our law firm is very selective about the cases that we take on, because we want to devote the energies of the firm's lawyers to those matters in which each attorney can make the greatest difference for the injured and the bereaved. For some sample results in medical malpractice, wrongful death, and personal injury cases, see the Verdicts and Settlements obtained on behalf of the clients of the firm's attorneys during their respective careers.

The law firm has handled personal injury and wrongful death cases involving practically all medical specialties including internal medicine, anesthesiology, pulmonology, neurology, pediatrics, and neurosurgery.  The firm's lawyers believe that the law firm's clients are well-served by the close personal attention that each attorney devotes to the firm's cases.   Each lawyer is proud to have achieved many favorable outcomes for those who have sustained an injury or died as the result of the negligence or malpractice of another, including patients who have been injured by a doctor, nurse or other medical, hospital and/or nursing home professionals.  Our law offices also understand that getting answers to the question of "why" in a medical malpractice, personal injury or wrongful death action is as crucial a goal as financial compensation to many of the firm's clients.

Recognized by Clients and Peers

Many of our past clients refer us to others on the basis of our accomplishments on their behalf. Moreover, Mr. Cerussi's legal peers have recognized his capabilities through his designation as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, an honor bestowed on only 2% of the lawyers in the State of New Jersey. Many of the firm's cases are referred by other law firms. 

Contact Us 

To schedule a free consultation regarding a hospital or physician error, pharmacy mistake or other medical malpractice, nursing home abuse or neglect, or negligence case which resulted in serious personal injury or wrongful death, please contact Charles A. Cerussi at our law firm. The firm has primary offices in Monmouth County, NJ and on Long Island (Garden City in Nassau County). We serve all counties in New Jersey (NJ) and New York (NY) including Monmouth County, NJ, Nassau County, NY, Ocean County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Queens County, NY, Manahattan and Suffolk County, NY.

Sample Desciption of Cases Handled by the Firm

Our attorneys have handled numerous wrongful death actions arising from medical malpractice and other types of accidents (e.g., motor vehicle accidents, construction site accidents).  The firm has experience in representing individuals in medical malpractice actions who have suffered an adverse drug reaction, allergic reaction and/or anaphylactic reaction to medication.  In one such recent malpractice case in Ocean County, NJ, our client developed drug induced pulmonary edema when her internist and cardiologist ignored a known allergy to sulfa medication, which tragically resulted in her death.  In a cardiology malpractice case, our young client was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis and given a combination of drugs that resulted in a condition known as rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown), and this client also tragically died.  Another client walked into an emergency treatment center while suffering an asthma attack and because the facility was not properly staffed, she was not timely treated and the attack resulted in her untimely death.  In another malpractice action (Monmouth County, NJ) against a neurosurgeon, our young client, who had suffered an aneurysm, died after the surgeon failed to relieve her intracranial pressure, which led to the AVM rupturing (uncal herniation). In another medical malpractice/wrongful death case, our client suffered a heart attack (myocardial infarction) and died at a hospital in Nassau County (Long Island) after the results of a cardiac stress test (which showed blockage or ischemia) were not communicated.  In another medical malpractice case, our client died following bypass surgery at a NY hospital when multiple attempts at intubation by a young resident were unsuccessful.  Another medical malpractice case involved a young woman who died from a pulmonary embolism (which resulted from a DVT (deep vein thrombosis) while an IVC filter was being retrieved by an interventional radiologist at a New York hospital.  We are currently representing  the family of the Estate of an individual who died at a New Jersey hospital (Monmouth County) from a seizure and cardiac arrest which resulted from internal bleeding and the failure of the hospital's resident physician and nurses to timely perform a blood transfusion, which had been ordered due to the patient's hematocrit levels falling.

We have handled a wide array of medical malpractice and other medical negligence cases resulting in severe and/or disabling personal injury.  By way of some examples, the firm has represented children in obstetrics (OBGYN) malpractice cases who were injured at birth from the negligence of the obstetrician and sustained a brachial plexus injury, otherwise known as a shoulder dystocia injury, resulting in Erb's Palsy.  Our lawyers handled a medical malpractice case arising out of an anesthesia error that occurred during orthopedic surgery at a New Jersey hospital (Monmouth County), which resulted in cardiac arrest, hypoxia, encephalopathy and severe brain injury.  We have handled a gastoenterology malpractice case against a gastroenterologist arising out of a colonoscopy, which resulted in a spleen injury and splenic rupture requiring splenectomy.  The patient in that case suffered a respiratory arrest and developed ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome).  We have handled medical malpractice cases for clients who sustained a scar or disfigurement through the negligence of a plastic surgeon or scarring from a burn injury.  Another client's head was scarred when a NY brain surgeon performed an operation for an aneurysm and operated on the wrong side of the patient's brain.  Another client suffered injury and disability when an impending stroke was not diagnosed or treated at a NJ hospital (Mercer County).  Another urology malpractice case involves a client who suffered multiple amputations when an obstructed ureter went untreated and led to sepsis and septic shock at a Long Island hospital (Suffolk County).  Our attorneys successfully prosecuted a medical malpractice case against a spine surgeon in NY who allowed a hemangioma to bleed into our client's spinal cord, resulting in quadriplegia.  We also won a medical malpractice trial against an orthopedic surgeon in New Jersey who failed to timely diagnose an infection and administer antibiotics.

The firm is experienced in handling misdiagnosis or failure to timely diagnose cancer cases within the fields of radiology (e.g., mammography, MRI, CT or CAT scan) and oncology.  Our attorneys have experience in cases involving breast cancer and cervical cancer.  Breast cancer cases often involve the spread of metastatic cancer and more extensive treatment such as a mastectomy or chemotherapy, which may have been avoided had an earlier, timely diagnosis been made.  In a case against a NY urologist, our client suffered internal bleeding during surgery for prostate cancer after the insertion of a central line, which injured his subclavian artery and caused a pneumothorax and massive internal bleeding.  This complication went undiagnosed and untreated despite persistent complaints of pain, nausea and shortness of breath.  We are currently handling a delay in the diagnosis of lung cancer case for a client whose abnormal chest x-ray results were never relayed to him by his NJ cardiologist (Monmouth County).

We have handled cases against a nursing home for patients who have developed a pressure sore known as a decubitus ulcer (Ocean County), and in one such case the ulcer resulted in an amputation.  In an endocrinology case against a New York nursing home, the facility failed to administer medication for our client's adrenal insufficiency (Addison's Disease) and our client passed away.