Exclusively focused on representing plaintiffs, especially in mass tort litigation, Eric Chaffin prides himself on providing unsurpassed professional legal services in pursuit of the specific goals of his clients and their families.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2014 – Did you know that car crashes are the number one youth killer in the United States, with 390,000+ Americans injured or killed in distracted driving accidents each year? To raise awareness of this critical issue, the Chaffin Luhana Foundation…
On September 17, 2014, an expert panel advised the Food and Drug Administration to enforce more regulations on testosterone treatment therapy drugs. Currently it is easy to get a prescription for testosterone therapy drugs and many men use them for low testosterone levels that occur…
When: 1:30pm, Monday, October 20, 2014 Where: Quaker Valley High School PITTSBURGH, PA-Chaffin Luhana Partner Eric Chaffin and Chaffin Luhana Foundation Spokesperson and Paralympian Stephani Victor will visit Quaker Valley High School on October 20, 2014 to help stop students from driving distracted
What are normally seen as “routine” medical procedures can often go very wrong. Comedienne Joan Rivers, for example, was going through a routine scoping of her throat in September 2014 when she went into a cardiac arrest, from which she never recovered. Single mother Stacey…
A September 2013 study published in the Journal of Patient Safety reported that an estimated 210,000 to 400,000 people die in hospitals every year from some sort of preventable harm. Medical malpractice claims continue to be filed in great numbers across the nation as patients…
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2014 – Did you know that car crashes are the number one youth killer in the United States, with 390,000+ Americans injured or killed in distracted driving accidents each year? To raise awareness of this critical issue, the Chaffin Luhana Foundation…
On August 1, 2014, the family of a Virginia man filed a testosterone wrongful death lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The plaintiffs have named Androderm manufacturers Actavis and Watson Pharmaceuticals as defendants in the case. This is one of…
What constitutes medical error? According to a 2005 study, despite a lot of research in the area of error in medicine, “few studies have defined or measured ‘medical error’ directly.” Yet properly defining the term is important if hospitals are to improve and commit fewer…
A New York man was recently awarded $2.3 million in his medical malpractice lawsuit. According to The Journal News, a Rockland County jury found the doctor in the case negligent for failing to properly treat a serious infection. A 2011 study published in the Journal…
Partners Eric Chaffin and Roopal Luhana have been selected as New York Metro Super Lawyers for 2014. This is the fifth year in a row that Mr. Chaffin has received this honor. Partner Roopal Luhana was named a New York Metro Super Lawyer in 2013,…
On April 1, 2013, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federal Tylenol lawsuits into one court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The panel ruled that all cases shared common matters of fact, and that handling them together would be more…
On August 24, 2014 the American Heart Association (AHA) released a statement outlining the agency’s position on e-cigarettes. It supports any regulations or laws that “prohibit the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to youth.” It recognizes how popular the product has become to the nation’s…
