Pegalis & Erickson, LLC, is a firm devoted to representing individuals seriously injured as a result of medical malpractice or negligence. The firm has been recognized as one of the premier medical malpractice firms in New York State as well as nationally.

Pegalis & Erickson, LLC has the distinction of receiving the two highest medical malpractice jury verdicts in the State of New York at the time. In 1998, Steven Pegalis won a $116 million verdict as against New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation for a child with severe brain injury as a result of her birth. In 2001, Stephen Erickson won a $114.8 million verdict as against St. Mary's Hospital in Brooklyn for a young woman who sustained severe brain injury while under the care of St. Mary's Hospital.

In 2004, Steve Pegalis again won a record breaking verdict in the amount of $111.7 million for a young girl also severely injured as a result of events at or around the time of her birth.

Throughout the years, the verdicts won on behalf of our clients have consistently been in the top levels both statewide and nationally. The firm's cases have been the subject of both newspaper stories as well as television news reports. Many of our cases have been featured in Long Island Newsday, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The New York Law Journal, VerdictSearch, The National Law Journal, Lawyers Weekly, The New York Jury Verdict Reporter, Long Island Business News, Litigation Week, Herald Statesman and local news stations such as Channel 4 (NBC), Channel 7 (ABC), Channel 12 (Long Island Local News), Fox 5 and Channel 11 (WPIX).

See the Press section of our website for more information.