Success Stories

1.6 million dollar settlement in a medical malpractice action based upon the failure to diagnose severe heart disease in a 43 year old father of four, resulting in his wrongful death. This family physician did not take proper note of the results of a holter monitor, which would have informed him that the patient was at risk for sudden cardiac death. Annuities were purchased as part of a structured settlement to provide for his children's college education.

1.1 million dollar settlement in a medical malpractice action for failure to timely diagnose colon cancer in a 53 year old woman. The failure to diagnose was related to the gastroenterologist not reviewing his own records with respect to prior incomplete tests performed.

1 million twenty-five thousand settlement in a medical malpractice action due to operative negligence during a shoulder repair procedure of a 36 year old machinist. The brachial plexus of the patient was burned by an electrocautery device during the surgery. The injury was not reported in the operative record and was only discovered post-surgically.

$575,000.00 settlement to a female bus driver for injury to lumbar discs after being struck in the rear. The injuries to the back prevented the bus driver from returning to work, and interfered with her care of a special needs child.

$475,000.00 settlement for a 57 year old woman against a neurologist that failed to diagnose a cerebral aneurysm and recommend surgery. The aneurysm subsequently ruptured and caused disturbances in vision, and neurological damage.

$450,000.00 settlement during trial for a 55 year old clerical worker who suffered multiple herniated discs in her back and neck, as well as rib fractures and a collapsed lung in an intersection collision in Brooklyn in which she was a passenger.

$380,000.00 settlement in a medical malpractice action for failure to timely diagnose lung cancer, which made chemotherapy necessary due to the delay.

$300,000.00 verdict against a school in Nassau County for shoulder injuries of a student requiring surgery after a teacher drove a van off the pavement of a highway and caused it to flip over, injuring the student passenger.

$225,000.00 settlement in labor law (scaffolding law) case for roofer who fell from defective ladder and suffered back injuries and was disabled from work for 9 months.

$140,000.00 verdict in a hit-in-the-rear automobile accident in which the plaintiff suffered herniated cervical discs and lost two weeks from work. Allstate Insurance Company had offered $8,500.00 to settle this case during trial.

Note: The above results cannot and do not guarantee or predict similar results with respect to any future matters. All new matters must be evaluated on their own particular facts, and with respect to the law as it exists at the time the case is evaluated.