A History of Winning Results

Case Results

$7,000,000 recovery for failure to timely perform a cesarean section causing brain damage to newborn.

$4,100,000 recovery for severe airway burns to an individual when an endotracheal tube ignited during laser airway surgery for removal of benign vocal cord polyps.

$4,000,000 recovery for individual for cardiopulmonary arrest and severe permanent anoxic brain injury due to negligent removal of an endotracheal tube.

$3,350,000 recovery for wrongful death of an individual who died from respiratory failure due to defendants’ failure to closely monitor her respiratory status.

$3,000,000 recovery for wrongful death of an individual from metastatic melanoma.

$2,900,000 recovery with guaranteed yield exceeding $5,000,000 for obstetrical malpractice arising from defendants’ failure to clearly document and communicate newborn mother’s gestational diabetes, and failure to timely diagnose and treat hypoglycemia in the newborn, resulting in brain damage.

$2,749,661 arbitration award for injuries suffered by an individual including removal of stomach, polyneuropathy and shortened life expectancy, arising from bariatric surgeon’s negligent follow-up care after gastric bypass surgery. medical malpractice

$2,747,000 recovery following arbitration for birth injuries including hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, cerebral palsy, brain damage, right hemi paresis and acquired microcephaly. medical malpractice

$2,500,000 recovery for an individual who suffered crush injuries to upper extremity in motor vehicle accident, for which she underwent re-implantation surgery, followed by bilateral lower extremity compartment syndrome, compartment syndrome of upper non-injured extremity, infection and fascitis, requiring bilateral above knee amputation as a result of defendant vascular surgeon’s failure to perform primary amputation of upper extremity.

$2,500,000 recovery for hospitalized child who became permanently blind while under the care of defendant doctors who failed to timely assess, diagnose, monitor and treat significantly increased intracranial pressure.

$2,500,000 recovery for death of an individual by air embolism during pulmonary valve replacement surgery, due to defendant doctors’ failure to know that she had a patent foramen ovale which was documented in medical records and never repaired.

$2,500,000 recovery for 65 year old man whose dura was punctured during surgery for spinal stenosis causing spinal cord injury and neurological compromise.

$2,400,000 recovery for minor child due to defendant’s having lost the front portion of the child’s skull.

$2,070,000 recovery for the wrongful death of a woman who suffered a postpartum hemorrhage and cardiac arrest after defendants failed to provide blood and medications in a timely manner.

$2,000,000 settlement for wrongful death of a 42 year old married father of two minor children whose vital signs were not properly monitored after he underwent surgical repair for multiple facial fractures he sustained when a portable basketball hoop collapsed.

$2,000,000 recovery for a woman arising out of the defendant’s failure to timely diagnose and treat breast cancer.

$2,000,000 recovery for woman arising from defendant gynecologist oncologist’s failure to diagnose 10 week pregnancy before proceeding with hysterectomy for rapidly growing pelvic mass, thought to be choriocarcinoma, a rare form of cancer.

$2,000,000 recovery with guaranteed yield exceeding $3,500,000 arising from defendant obstetricians’ failure to recognize and timely act upon nonreassuring fetal tracings and failure to timely deliver fetus by cesarean section, resulting in hypoxic encephalopathy requiring a permanent shunt, brain damage and cerebral palsy to newborn. Total payments of expected life term of minor plaintiff exceed $17,500,000.00.

$2,000,000 arbitration award for injuries suffered by a 62 year old man after elective laparoscopic mesenteric lymph node biopsy during which defendant negligently cut off the blood supply to the bowel, resulting in ischemia and death of bowel tissue.

$2,000,000 recovery for injuries suffered by a minor who was injured and sustained mid-shaft fractures of his left tibia and fibula. Due to defendants’ negligence, he suffered transmetatarsal amputation of his left foot, soft tissue necrosis, permanent loss and damage to nerves, necrotizing vasculitis and permanent scarring and disfigurement.

$1,990,000 recovery for failure to recognize the malignant potential of a calcified mucocele of the appendix in a 54 year old man, resulting in his death.

$1,900,000 recovery for an individual who suffered spinal cord compression and paraparesis as a result of defendant neurosurgeon’s failure to securely reattach his lamina after cervical surgery.

$1,850,000 recovery for wrongful death of a man from a failure to timely and properly treat the signs and symptoms of deep vein thrombosis.

$1,815,000 verdict for failure to timely diagnose and treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, originating as a thyroid mass, resulting in death of a 29 year old male. With statutory interest, total judgment was $2,592,546.

$1,750,000 settlement for the wrongful death of a 52 year old male from a pulmonary embolism as a result of defendant’s negligent failure to order a D-dimer test “STAT” and failure to send the decedent for immediate evaluation to rule in or rule out pulmonary embolism when decedent visited defendant’s office with a history of immobility and complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath.

$1,750,000 recovery for failure to pre-oxygenate and adequately monitor respiratory status and cardiac status in connection with intubation; failure to appropriately conduct cardiac arrest resuscitation.

$1,500,000 settlement by mediation for wrongful death of a 35 year old woman from a delay in treating pulmonary embolism.

$1,500,000 settlement by mediation for wrongful death of a 32 year old widow resulting from negligent performance of laparoscopic gastric banding procedure.

$1,100,000 recovery for failure to properly treat married father of two minor children resulting in his death by suicide.

$800,000 settlement for failure to timely diagnose and treat esophageal perforation resulting in the wrongful death of a 78 year old man.

$400,000 settlement for 72 year old female who alleged that her annual mammograms were incorrectly reviewed, interpreted, and reported by five defendant radiologists in the same practice resulting in a delay in diagnosis and progression of plaintiff’s breast cancer from stage I to stage III with decreased chance of ten year survival.