Significant Awards
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Negligence
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School Liability
Assault by unattended emotionally disturbed student on general education student, leaving victim with devastating Traumatic Brain Injuries. Settled.
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$9.0 million
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Negligent security resulting in shooting and parapalegia |
$4.3 million |
Product Liability
Tip over of a Genie personnel lift resulting in shattered knee and wrist.
Trial Court granted additur. Liability and additur sustained by 1st Department and Court of Appeals. Link to Court of Appeals Oral Argument |
$3.0 million
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Product Liablity - Negligent design of Flag Football Belt |
$1.6 million |
Labor Law Violation,
Carpenter fell from ladder sustaining severe leg and ankle injury
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$1 million |
Lead Poisoning |
$590,000 |
Premises liability, negligent installation of industrial heater caused explosion, injuring plaintiff |
$800,000 |
Premises liability, trip and fall over restaurant canopy support |
$450,000 |
Golf Cart - Negligent collision with golf cart |
$445,000 |
Premises liability, plaintiff injured after walking into plate glass room divider |
$365,000 |
Premises liability, ceiling collapse |
$300,000 |
Auto Accident - Intersection collision |
$290,000 |
Sidewalk construction created a hazard causing plaintiff to fall, sustaining fracture of elbow |
$275,000 |
Bicycle Accident - cyclist collided with pedestrian |
$250,000 |
Premesis Liablity, slip and fall on wet floor in retail store |
$200,000 |
Premesis Liability - Slip and fall on ice accumulation at a residence |
$175,000 |
Motor vehicle accident resulting in severe knee injury to plaintiff pedestrian |
$150,000 |
Police Misconduct,
Negligent discharge of weapon striking bystander, minimal residual injuries |
$93,000 |
Sidewalk construction created a hazard causing plaintiff to fall, sustaining fracture of elbow |
$45,000 |
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Medical Malpractice
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Failure to diagnose and treat pulmonary embolism |
$2.25 million |
Failure to diagnose plaintiff's cancer of the larynx |
$1.6 Million |
Failure to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to newborn infant |
$1.56 Million |
Double Medical Malpractice
Failure to diagnose cancer and over-radiation |
$1.5 million |
Failure to diagnose plaintiff's cancer of the nasopharynx |
$825,000 |
Failure to diagnose displaced hip from birth to age 4 years |
$825,000 |
Failure to diagnose kidney disease resulting in loss of kidney |
$750,000 |
Arthroscopic Surgery on the wrong knee |
$600,000 |
Surgical Error resulting in perforated bowel |
$575,000 |
Improper manipulation of cervical spine |
$550,000
Treating doctor suspended from practice for 3 years |
Failure to diagnose appendicitis |
$400,000 |
Failure to diagnose and treat appendicitis |
$350,000 |
Negligent administration of anesthesia |
$300,000 |
Over-radiation of treatment for Kaposi Sarcoma in HIV positive patient |
$225,000 |
Improper radiation treatment, causing plaintiff to sustain burns |
$223,000 |
Failure to properly treat wrist fracture resulting in malunion of bones |
$150,000 |
Failure to diagnosis stroke |
$125,000 |
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