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Significant Awards
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Negligence
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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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Negligent security resulting in shooting and parapalegia |
$2.7 million |
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Product Liablity – Negligent design of Flag Football Belt
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$1.6 million |
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Labor Law Violation,
Carpenter fell from ladder sustaining severe leg and ankle injury
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$1 million |
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Lead Poisoning |
$590,000 |
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Premises liability, negligent installation of industrial heater caused
explosion, injuring plaintiff |
$800,000 |
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Premises liability, trip and fall over restaurant canopy support |
$450,000 |
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Golf Cart – Negligent collision with golf cart
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$445,000 |
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Premises liability, plaintiff injured after walking into plate glass room
divider |
$365,000 |
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Premises liability, ceiling collapse
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$300,000 |
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Auto Accident – Intersection collision
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$290,000 |
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Sidewalk
construction created a hazard causing plaintiff to fall, sustaining
fracture of elbow |
$275,000 |
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Bicycle Accident – cyclist collided with pedestrian
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$250,000 |
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Premesis Liablity, slip and fall on wet floor in retail store
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$200,000 |
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Premesis Liability – Slip and fall on ice accumulation at a residence
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$175,000 |
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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 |
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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
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$2.25 million dollars
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Failure to diagnose plaintiff's cancer of the larynx |
$1.6 Million |
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Failure to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to newborn infant |
$1.56 Million |
Double Medical Malpractice
Failure to diagnose cancer and over-radiation
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$1.5 million |
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Failure to diagnose plaintiff's cancer of the nasopharynx |
$825,000 |
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Failure to diagnose displaced hip from birth to age 4 years |
$825,000 |
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Failure to diagnose kidney disease resulting in loss of kidney |
$750,000 |
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Surgical Error resulting in perforated bowel |
$575,000 |
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Improper manipulation of cervical spine
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$550,000
Treating doctor suspended from practice for 3 years |
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Arthroscopic Surgery on the wrong knee |
$450,000
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Failure to diagnose appendicitis
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$400,000 |
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Failure to diagnose and treat appendicitis
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$350,000 |
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Negligent administration of anesthesia
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$300,000 |
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Over-radiation of treatment for Kaposi Sarcoma in HIV positive patient |
$225,000 |
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Improper radiation
treatment, causing plaintiff to sustain burns |
$223,000 |
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Failure to properly treat wrist fracture resulting in malunion of bones
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$150,000 |
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Failure to diagnosis stroke |
$125,000 |
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