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About Thomas Valet

Thomas Valet Esq. heads our Mass Tort division of RGLZ. He presently is the Deputy Treasurer of NYSTLA and for the past 6 years has served on the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and was elected as NYSTLA’s Parliamentarian in 2015. Tom is a Past-Chair of the Trial Lawyer’s Section of the New York State Bar Association and has served on the Executive Committee of the Trial Lawyer’s Section for the past 20 years. He also Chairs the New York State Bar Association’s Medical Malpractice Committee and is the immediate Past-Chair of the Medical Malpractice Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York. Tom obtained his Juris Doctorate from the Hofstra School of Law in 1985 and is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the United States District Courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Suing the Veterans Administration for Malpractice

2022-09-14T10:04:28-04:00By |Categories: Attorney Articles, Can I Sue the Veterans Administration?, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Negligence, Thomas P. Valet|Tags: |

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT While everyone will agree that Veterans of our military deserve the highest degree of medical care that can be provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the reality is that the VA Health Care System is a disgrace. Reports of Veterans having [...]

Defective Cook IVC Filter Mass Tort Trial Underway

2021-02-03T11:14:35-05:00By |Categories: Defective Products, Medical Malpractice, Tort Cases|Tags: , , |

The First Cook IVC (Intra-Vena Cava) Filter bellwether trial started last week in Indiana October 27th, 2017 The plaintiff’s case is underway in the first of three mass tort trials on whether Cook Medical Inc. is liable for selling a defective IVC filter that migrated through a blood vessel and punctured the plaintiff’s intestine. [...]

Medical Records and Your Rights as a Patient

2018-10-22T18:46:49-04:00By |Categories: Attorney Articles, Medical Malpractice, Medical Recalls, Thomas P. Valet|Tags: |

Medical Records are Private and Protected We frequently hear from clients whose doctors refuse to provide them with copies of their own medical records.  In other cases we hear from clients whose records have been disclosed to other persons without their knowledge and consent.   As a patient, it is important to know your rights both [...]

Mass Tort Report

2020-09-11T14:06:06-04:00By |Categories: Medical Malpractice, Tort Cases, Uncategorized|Tags: |

RGLZ is currently looking for cases involving the following drugs and devices: Ethicon Physiomesh, Atrium C-Qur, And Bard Ventralex Surgical Mesh Failures: There are a variety of mesh products used to surgically treat hernias and other soft-tissue defects, with doctors using these products in more than 1 million operations each year. Many of these mesh [...]

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