Vito Cannavo
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
A Bronx jury in February 2016 awarded $183 million to five FDNY firefighters and the families of those killed after the city was found 80% liable for removing personal safety ropes years before a 2005 Bronx tenement fire that forced six firefighters to jump from a fourth-floor window.
For a firefighter injured by falling debris during a firefighting operation
For a client who sustained brain damage due to improper medical monitoring
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.
