Robert Higgins: Medical Malpractice "Lawyer of the Year"

Best Lawyers® has selected Lubin & Meyer's Robert M. Higgins as Boston's "Lawyer of the Year" - Medical Malpractice Law for 2015. Best Lawyers is the most trusted guide to legal excellence, and is based upon attorneys evaluating others in their profession using peer surveys. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings and have earned a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Attorney Higgins has achieved several significant jury verdicts this year including:

• October 2014 -  $16.7 million verdict for a woman who died of lung cancer after a radiologist missed evidence of the cancer in an X-ray
• September 2014 - $13 million verdict for the death of 38-year-old man who died following tonsillectomy and throat surgeries.
• July 2014 - $1 million jury verdict for doctor's failure to diagnose rectal cancer
• March 2014 - $4.8 million verdict for misdiagnosis of 23-year-old man's fatal heart ailment

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Lubin & Meyer PC - Rhode Island's Leader in Medical Malpractice Law