About Miriam Weizenbaum
Miriam Weizenbaum joined Amato DeLuca in 1995 to establish the Providence law firm of DeLuca & Weizenbaum. She is a trial lawyer whose civil litigation practice includes representing people injured by medical errors and negligence, defective products, government and police abuse, and other civil rights violations. Ms. Weizenbaum attended Simon's Rock of Bard College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. After working as a community and union organizer, she earned a Juris Doctorate at Temple University in 1986. In her first job as a lawyer, Ms. Weizenbaum worked as a public defender in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, representing people in misdemeanor, felony, and death penalty cases.
In 2016, Ms. Weizenbaum and her law partner, Amato DeLuca, founded a non-profit public interest law center, the Rhode Island Center for Justice. Since its founding, the Center for Justice has been fulfilling its mission to protect legal rights and ensure justice for vulnerable individuals, families, and communities through partnership with community advocates, while training and mentoring future public interest lawyers through a fellowship program. Miriam Weizenbaum is admitted to the courts of the State of Rhode Island and the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Her professional memberships include the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island Bar Associations, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association.
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A federal judge in Rhode Island found that a federally funded Providence health center spent nearly seven years calling a mother of four's headaches migraines before a brain tumor was found, and on December 9, 2024 entered judgment of $11,885,494.62 under the Federal Tort Claims Act, $8,385,494.62 of it to the injured woman and $3,500,000 to her four children. The tumor turned up only after she lost consciousness in the clinic's parking lot in 2019, and she suffered strokes during the surgery to remove it. The United States appealed. On March 27, 2026 the First Circuit affirmed her pain-and-suffering awards, modified her medical expense award down by $3,600, reversed the children's loss-of-consortium damages for lack of jurisdiction, and vacated the homemaker-damages award for recalculation. As of publication $7,286,894.62 stands confirmed, with the homemaker figure still open on remand.
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