Office Location
99 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
T 212.286.8585
F 212.490.8966
ny@hpmb.com
Areas of Practice
Medical Liability Defense
Education
University of Massachusetts: 1998
Brooklyn Law School: 2006
Bar Admissions
New York
Adam M. Dlugacz
Managing Partner
As managing partner at HPM&B, Adam oversees all aspects of the firm’s business, including client relations and development, finances, and operations. Adam also serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and as the administrative partner for Healthcare Risk Advisors.
Adam joined HPM&B in 2010 and became a partner in 2017. Recognized as a leader by his peers and clients, he was elected to serve on the firm’s Executive Committee in 2022. Adam has devoted his career to representing premier medical centers and health systems, academic medical centers, individual physicians and other healthcare professionals in complex, high exposure, medical liability actions. Adam’s practice focuses on all medical specialties, including neurosurgery, interventional cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and orthopedic surgery. Adam represents our clients at all phases of pre-trial litigation through to verdict at trial.
In addition to obtaining successful results for our clients, Adam has provided several lectures and mock trial presentations to physicians and hospitals regarding the implications of various issues in medicine and litigation. He has also given lectures for CLE programs on issues encountered by medical malpractice attorneys.
Prior to joining HPM&B, Adam was a prosecutor in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in the Office’s Special Victims and Domestic Violence Bureaus where he successfully prosecuted numerous felonies at trial.
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Verdicts & Cases
Case Discontinuance
HPMB recently obtained another dismissal for their clients, a major teaching hospital in NYC and one of the hospital’s nurse anesthetists. Plaintiff, a dentist, alleged that the defendants caused serious, permanent nerve damage during placement...
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Senior Partner Charles Bach, Managing Partner Adam Dlugacz and...
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Partners Adam Dlugacz and Alejandra Gil successfully moved for summary judgment on behalf of a gastroenterologist and major teaching hospital thereby securing dismissal of plaintiff’s claims that the defendants failed to timely diagnose his...
Read MoreFrye Motion Granted
Partners Adam Dlugacz and Daniel Ratner successfully argued that plaintiffs should be precluded from advancing their theory of causation that the infant-plaintiff suffered silent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy due to prolonged exposure to...
Read MoreSummary Judgment in New York County Obstetrical Malpractice Case
Representing a major New York City medical center and two obstetrician-gynecologists, HPM&B successfully moved for summary judgment dismissal of all claims on behalf of an infant who was born prematurely with severe neurological damages....
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