Robert Vilensky

May 14, 2020 | New York Law Journal

If we want the law to continue to guide the country and the world and want future generations to take the mantle, then maybe it's time for us older lawyers to consider giving up our positions so that those future generations can take over.

By Robert Vilensky

2 minute read

October 26, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Robert Vilensky, a partner of Ronemus & Vilensky, writes that with the passage of the state budget this year came a provision that has a direct effect upon what medical malpractice lawyers generally refer to as "brain-damaged baby cases."

By Robert Vilensky

12 minute read

August 27, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Robert Vilensky, a partner at Ronemus & Vilensky, and Erica Podolsky, an associate at the firm, write: Children in our society are considered "precious assets" and are treated differently by the public at large. In medical malpractice cases in New York, however, children are treated like second class citizens. The influence of tort reform is clear in the laws that have been passed and in the decisions rendered by New York judges in applications filed by children for late notices of claim.

By Robert Vilensky and Erica Podolsky

10 minute read

June 02, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Robert Vilensky, a partner with Ronemus & Vilensky, writes that colon cancer kills approximately 57,000 people a year. Many of these deaths could be avoided by early detection. Colonoscopies, however, are not without risk or consequences.

By Robert Vilensky

14 minute read

February 13, 2002 | New York Law Journal

Lead was banned from paint products in 1978. Yet it was not until 1991 when the Center for Disease Control (CDC) lowered the acceptable amount of lead in the bloodstream from 25 micrograms per deciliter to 10 micrograms per deciliter that lead paint poisoning cases really started to explode. By lowering the threshold at which a diagnosis of lead poisoning could be made from 25 to 10 ug/dl, the CDC created thousands of children as new potential plaintiffs.

By Robert Vilensky

16 minute read