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Vito Cannavo

Vito Cannavo

New York, NY
Product LiabilitySlip & FallMedical MalpracticeWrongful Death

About Vito Cannavo

Vito A. Cannavo brings corporate and municipal litigation experience to complement trial skills developed across all of the firm's practice areas. Before joining Sullivan Papain, he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Mark Costantino, worked as a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and served as a trial attorney at the New York City Law Department Office of the Corporation Counsel. He joined the firm in 1988 and became a member in 1992. He now leads one of the firm's General Negligence departments and has earned multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements in medical malpractice, premises liability, motor vehicle, and firefighter-related litigation. He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, and holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Notable case results

$6 millionVerdict

For a firefighter injured by falling debris during a firefighting operation

$5.6 million

For a client who sustained brain damage due to improper medical monitoring

$5.5 millionVerdict

In a case where a radiologist failed to diagnose breast cancer

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Product Liability
Slip & Fall
Medical Malpractice
Wrongful Death

Education

Cornell Law School
J.D., 1978

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York

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