Past Verdicts & Settlements

Personal Injury

• $8,000,000 Recovery for wife in divorce involving spousal abuse
• $7,500,000 Jury Verdict for wrongful termination
• $6,500,000 Jury Verdict for a man paralyzed in a shooting in a parking lot
• $5,000,000 Jury Verdict – punitive damages for theft of bank proceeds
• $5,000,000 Recovery for a young boy who suffered a severe leg injury on a ride at an amusement park
• $4,500,000 Recovery for a man who was paralyzed due to injuries received in a hot tub on a cruise ship because there was no lifeguard or other supervision.
• $2,900,000 Recovery for a man who suffered a leg/hip amputation while cleaning out the inside of waste management truck
• $2,500,000 Jury Verdict for a young girl who received serious injuries to her leg in an incident at her school
• $1,500,000 Recovery for the family of a man who died in an airplane crash
• $1,460,000 Jury Verdict for family of a child killed in a motor vehicle/pedestrian collision while walking to school
• $1,400,000 Recovery from a high school for the family of a teenage boy who was struck and killed by automobile while running with his high school track team
• $1,400,000 Recovery for the widow of a 70 year old man fatally injured when struck by a car driven by a valet parker.
• $1,300,000 Recovery for a wrongful death in an electrical accident
• $1,300,000 Recovery for a 21 year old single man who suffered closed head injury when struck by hood of car while attempting to jump start a dead battery.
• $1,150,000 Recovery for a left arm amputation in an electrical accident
• $1,100,000 Recovery for a father and son badly burned at a bagel shop due to faulty gas lines
• $1,000,000 Recovery to hotel guest who stepped on a hypodermic needle in his hotel room
• $1,000,000 Recovery for the parents of a child severely injured at a private school on the playground equipment
• $1,000,000 Recovery for a woman who sustained neurological injuries because of carbon monoxide poisoning from an improperly repaired automobile exhaust system
• $1,000,000 Recovery for a 25 year old single man who fell from defective ladder

Car Accidents

• $25,000,000 Verdict for a woman who was severely injured by a drunk driver in an automobile collision – punitive damages were awarded
• $10,000,000 Recovery for a woman who was paralyzed in a motor vehicle collision
• $4,250,000 Recovery for a man who received cervical injuries in an automobile collision
• $3,000,000 Recovery for man injured in a trucking accident
• $3,000,000 Recovery for a 35 year old woman who suffered RSD as a result of slipping on improperly painted concrete
• $3,000,000 Recovery for wrongful death of a young single man who was killed in a collision involving a tractor trailer and aggravated liability
• $2,500,000 Recovery for a 50 year old man who suffered closed head injury and a 3 level fusion of the low back as a result of car collision
• $2,000,000 Jury Verdict to a mother and child, both severely injured in an automobile collision – bad faith action
• $2,000,000 Recovery for the wrongful death of a mother killed in car crash when thieves were eluding the police in a negligent chase
• $1,100,000 Verdict against insurance company for a man who sustained back injuries in an automobile collision
• $1,075,000 Recovery to family for injuries received by a child in a motor vehicle collision
• $1,000,000 Jury Verdict for family of a father killed in a tractor trailer collision
• $1,000,000 policy limits – Recovery for a 35 year old man who suffered partial paralysis in a single car collision on a dirt road while attempting to avoid improperly placed surveyor stick
• $775,000 Recovery for a 30 year old single woman who was 7 months pregnant and suffered physical and psychological injuries when a driver struck her vehicle and killed her mother and her unborn child
• $600,000 Recovery for teenage boy who suffered closed head injury in a rear-end collision with a tractor trailer truck.

Bicycle Accident

• $11,900,000 Jury Verdict for injuries caused in a motorcycle collision
• $9,000,000 Recovery for man who suffered multiple injuries including a chronic open wound as a result of a bicycle collision with a utility truck
• $1,650,000 Jury Verdict for motorcyclist’s leg injury which caused an infection
• $1,500,000 Recovery for the wrongful death of a motorcyclist
• $1,100,000 Recovery for a 57 year old married man who suffered significant shoulder injury as a result of bicycle collision

Insurance Claims

• $3,500,000 Jury Verdict for bad faith action against insurance company
• $1,000,000 Jury Verdict for failure to pay life insurance proceeds

Product Liability Claims

• $10,000,000 Recovery for developer in a construction claim regarding a defective product
• $1,500,000 Recovery for an industrial accident involving a defective product

Medical Malpractice

• $12,000,000Recovery for parents of a child who sustain brain-damage at birth due to medical malpractice
• $10,900,000 Recovery for a brain-injured man and his family – medical malpractice
• $9,000,000 Jury Verdict for the wrongful death of a child in a medical malpractice action
• $6,500,000 Recovery for the family of a child who sustained amputations of both arms due to hospital and physicians’ failure to properly diagnose necrotizing fasciitis
• $5,900,000 Recovery for the family of a woman whose condition during anesthesia was not properly addressed causing her to sustain a severe hypoxic brain injury resulting in her current persistent vegetative state.
• $5,800,000 Recovery for a man rendered a paraplegic in a medical malpractice action
• $4,600,000 Recovery for a brain-injured baby due to medical negligence during birth
• $4,300,000 Jury Verdict for the family of a man whose cardiac condition was not properly diagnosed and treated which led to his death
• $3,500,000 Recovery to a man who received an overdose of radiation while being treated for cancer of the jaw.  The overdose caused him to suffer spinal cord injuries
• $3,150,000 Recovery for the family of a young woman whose allergic reaction to a spider bite was not treated by hospital personnel in a timely and appropriate manner; she went into respiratory arrest and subsequently suffered brain damage which left her in a coma.
• $3,000,000 Recovery for a woman being treated in hospital for injuries she received in an automobile collision, developed a spinal cord abscess which resulted in paralysis
• $2,900,000 Jury Verdict for wrongful death in a medical malpractice action
• $2,480,000 Recovery for the family of a woman who died in childbirth – medical malpractice
• $2,230,000 Recovery for the family of a man who was being treated for cervical fractures he received in a bicycle vs. automobile collision.  Due to improper care and monitoring in the hospital, he suffered a respiratory arrest which led to hypoxic encephalopathy and ultimately, his death
• $2,200,000 Recovery for an elderly man who, due to medical malpractice, developed a decline in neurological functioning while he was a patient at an assisted care facility
• $2,100,000 Recovery for the family of a man whose aortic aneurysm was misdiagnosed due to the failure to timely order and read radiological studies, resulting in his death
• $2,100,000 Recovery for a woman who developed a severe infection due to improperly performed gastric bypass surgery.
• $1,900,000 Recovery for a man who lost his leg in a medical malpractice action
• $1,750,000 Recovery for a physician being operated on for a herniated disc. While in surgery, the physician’s blood pressure was allowed to drop which resulted in an ischemic event causing permanent brain and neurological injuries
• $1,700,000 Recovery for the family of a woman who died in the hospital due to medical malpractice
• $1,650,000 Recovery for woman given the wrong medication in the hospital – medical malpractice
• $1,500,000 Recovery for a man who was misdiagnosed in the Emergency Room and subsequently suffered serious injuries – medical malpractice
• $1,500,000 Recovery for the family of a young woman who died due to medical malpractice while undergoing plastic surgery
• $1,500,000 Recovery to the wife of a man who had undergone triple bypass surgery and was given an overdose of medication which caused his death.
• $1,500,000 Recovery for the family of a 47 year old woman who died due to complications from a bleed following a renal biopsy
• $1,200,000 Recovery for wrongful death – medical malpractice
• $1,200,000 Recovery for a brain-injured baby due to medical negligence during birth
• $1,000,000 Recovery for family of a man who died of a heart attack – medical malpractice
• $1,000,000 Jury Verdict for a man who injured his elbow while at work, the injury was misdiagnosed and he developed osteomyelitis – medical malpractice
• $1,000,000 Recovery to the family of an infant, admitted to hospital for respiratory difficulties, who was given the incorrect parenteral nutrition formula which lead to the child’s cardiac arrest and subsequent death.

Legal Malpractice

• $4,200,000 Recovery in a legal malpractice action
• $2,000,000 Recovery for legal malpractice