Andrew S. Kaufman, Partner
akaufman@kbrlaw.com

Andrew S. Kaufman, is a Partner who represents
health care providers in virtually all medical specialty fields as well as many of the most prestigious hospitals in the New York metropolitan area. He also represents a number of well-known medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Over the past twenty years Mr. Kaufman has tried more than one hundred cases to verdict, including numerous cases of multimillion-dollar exposure. He has lectured at the New York State Bar Association, the Greater New York Hospital Association, Yale University School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Westchester County Medical Center and a number of major metropolitan hospitals and is a former Trial Advocacy Instructor at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

Mr. Kaufman has published on topics including medical malpractice, risk management, long term care liability, negotiating techniques and settlement strategies and drugs and medical devices liability litigation in The New York Law Journal, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, The Journal of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management, and The American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. Some recent publications include: Risk Reduction Strategist In Persona Injury Litigation, NYLJ – January 21, 2000, Reviewing Nursing Home Liability, NYLJ – June 6, 2001, Prosecution and Defense of Suicide Claims, NYLJ – July 26, 2002, An Introduction to Hospital Emergency Room Litigation, NYLJ – July 31, 2003, Nursing Home Liability Revisited, NYLJ – May 3, 2004, Litigation Involving the Noncompliant Patient, NYLJ – November 7, 2005, An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Depositions of Medical Experts, NYLJ – May 23, Junk Science Hearings: Timing Is Everything, NYLJ – July 24, 2006, Conceding Liability: Is There Anything to Be Gained? – February 15, 2007 and Bariatric Surgery Claims – A Medico Legal Perspective – “Obesity Surgery, 16 2006” - 2007

He is the past President of the New York State Medical Defense Bar, a past Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association Section on Law and Medicine and was a keynote speaker at their annual convention. He is the Chairperson at the NYSBA biannual seminar on Medical Malpractice Litigation.

Education
J.D. Rutgers University
School of Law (Law Review)

Bar and Court Admissions
New York 1979
Pennsylvania 1978
U.S. District Courts – Southern and Eastern Districts of New York 1980

Other Professional Affiliations
President, New York State Medical Malpractice Defense Bar, Member, N.Y. State Bar Association, N.Y. City Association of the Bar American Society for Health Care and Risk Management