Annamarie Bondi-Stoddard is the managing partner for the firm of Pegalis & Erickson, LLC.  Ms. Bondi-Stoddard has over 25 years experience representing plaintiffs in various types of medical malpractice cases which include women’s health issues, birth injuries, surgical, neurosurgical, cardiac, cancer-related cases, and a host of other medical specialty cases where negligence is involved.  She has not only written extensively on medical malpractice in publications such as The New York Law Journal and several lectured topics pertaining to medical malpractice law for lay audiences as well as fellow industry professionals. She has been voted by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® and New York Super Lawyers.  She was named one of Long Island’s Top 50 Business Women in 2005.  And awarded Long Island Business News ‘Who’s Who in Women in Professional Services” for 2010 and celebrating with other industry leaders the 2010 Long Island Business News “50 around 50” award.

The most important part of medical malpractice litigation, according to Ms. Bondi-Stoddard, is to help financially secure the future of significantly injured individuals so as to give them a better quality of life and in part to relieve some of the financial burden placed upon their overwhelmed family members.  She is also an advocate for patient safety awareness and devotes much of her time to community service on various health related issues. Additionally, she is President of the Long Island's Women's Agenda (LIWA) an umbrella organization for non-for- profit on Long Island providing a voice for women on a variety of professional, health and family related issues. She has been an active member of LIWA’s Health Care Committee which organizes health related seminars aimed at educating the women of Long Island on a variety of health and medical issues. Ms. Bondi-Stoddard is also currently an active member of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women’s Luncheon Committee contributing to the annual Long Island Heart Walk.  She is also involved with the American Cancer Society’s ‘Choose You’ movement, which encourages women to put their health first and be healthy role models for those around them.

Ms. Bondi-Stoddard is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York as well as the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. In addition, she is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Federal Claims. She is also a member of New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Nassau-Suffolk Trial Lawyers Association, Nassau County Bar Association (member Medical Legal Committee), American Association for Justice, New York State Bar Association, Nassau County Women’s Bar Association, New York County Bar Association and United Cerebral Palsy Auxillary of Nassau County.

She obtained her law degree from Boston University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University where she graduated summa cum laude, with departmental honors.

Some of her published articles include the following:

• “Smart Patient, Healthy Patient”, Long Island Women’s Agenda: Issues in Focus. Women’s Health Issue-Winter 2008

• “Medical Malpractice Damages in Infant Death Cases”, New York Law Journal September 21, 2007

• Lawyers Bookshelf, book review for the New York Law Journal of Paul Levine’s “Solomon v. Lord” November 22, 2005

• “Perspective: ‘Frye’ Hearing in Medical Malpractice Actions–‘Frye’ is Misapplied,” New York Law Journal, Special Section – March 15, 2004