Case Results

$18,000,000 verdict on behalf of a twin born after a long delay with a severe brain injury-hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.

$7,900,000 verdict for failure to monitor glucose levels in post CABG patient leads to death of 47 year old leaving a wife and two children.

$7,500,000 recovery for a baby who was seriously brain-damaged at the time of his birth. Due to a delay in delivery, the baby lost vital oxygen to his brain and develop cerebral palsy. This case was one of the largest settlements ever recorded in Westchester County New York.

$6,400,000 recovery for a young woman’s pregnancy that was mishandled before she went into labor leading to seizures with resultant brain damage.

$6,000,000 recovery for the mother of a profoundly brain-damaged youngster afflicted with cerebral palsy settled with the doctors and hospital for the full extent of the insurance coverage.

$4,649,000 recovery for failure to timely diagnose and treat hypertension in a pregnant woman resulting in cognitive deficits.

$4,600,000 recovery for the parents of a two-year-old girl who sued a hospital for failing to monitor their child after surgery leading to loss of blood and resultant brain damage.

$4,090,000 pre-suit recovery for a young man whose spinal cord was injured during spine surgery.

$3,500,000 recovery. The parents of a nine-year-old boy damaged as an infant by an untreated infection brought suit against the doctors in charge of the care. The child developed the common signs of a herpes infection which required the rapid administration of an antiviral medication known to be effective against herpes. The doctors delayed in giving the medication leading to severe cognitive problems and continuous drooling. The settlement will result in payments to the child approaching twenty million dollars.

$2,500,000 recovery. A 61-year-old native of Queens underwent gastric bypass surgery. Due to the failure of her health care providers to timely diagnose and treat a postoperative leak, she endured eleven (11) months of unnecessary pain and suffering prior to her untimely death.

$2,400,000 verdict for failure to diagnose and treat cyclodialysis cleft post cataract surgery.

$2,200,000 recovery. A 37-year-old Long Island resident, wife, and mother of two minor children underwent gastric bypass surgery in August 2005. Due to the failure of her health care providers to timely diagnose and treat post-operative complications, she became septic and died two weeks after her surgery.

$2,100,000 recovery. This result was obtained on behalf of a gentleman who underwent a simple, laparoscopic procedure to have a kidney stone removed. Due to a failure of his health care providers to monitor a post-operative bleed while in the recovery room, the patient went into hemorrhagic shock and suffered brain damage.

$2,000,000 recovery for the failure to timely diagnose and treat a recurrent kidney cancer leading to death.

$2,000,000 recovery for hemorrhagic shock, cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage due to a failure to timely and properly manage bleeding post birth of a stillborn.

$2,000,000 settlement for a young 29-year-old New Jersey wife and mother who developed bleeding after giving birth to a stillborn. Due to a failure of her health care providers to timely and properly manage the bleeding, she went into hemorrhagic shock, cardiac arrest and suffered permanent brain damage.

The husband of a mother of two brought suit for the failure to timely diagnose and treat recurrent kidney cancer. This wrongful death case was brought as a result of a physician’s failure to take seriously the complaints of a woman who had a prior bout with kidney cancer. Despite multiple office visits and diagnostic tests, the physician failed to discover that small cancer had recurred at the site of previous cancer. The failure to treat the local recurrence led to her untimely death.

$1,975,000 pre-suit recovery for sterilization resulting from a surgery without informed consent.

$1,900,000 recovery for wrongful death due to a hospital’s failure to advise of the true extent of bladder cancer.

$1,900,000 recovery for failure to timely diagnose prostate cancer.

$1,900,000 recovery for wrongful death due to failure to properly manage and treat a leak following a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.

$1,800,000 recovery failure to advise of CT results leads to metastatic kidney cancer and death.

$1,750,000 recovery for a leg injury due to a failure to timely diagnose flesh eating disease.

$1,700,000 recovery for failure to timely diagnose lung cancer.

$1,500,000 recovery for failure to order a thallium stress test leading to death. The result was obtained on behalf of the husband and two children of a 39-year-old woman who died after her cardiologist failed to order a thallium stress test in response to her signs and symptoms. The case settled just prior to summations.

$1,450,000 recovery due to the failure to timely diagnose and treat a heart attack in the Emergency Department.

$1,250,000 pre-suit recovery for a delayed diagnosis of cancer due to a misread x-ray.

$1,200,000 recovery for the failure to timely diagnose a brain bleed.

$1,100,000 recovery for wrongful death during surgery to place a dialysis catheter.

$1,100,000 verdict for the failure to diagnose cauda equina syndrome in emergency room presentation in a 56 year old man now claiming urinary urgency, back pain, leg weakness and erectile dysfunction.

$1,000,000 recovery due to the failure to timely diagnose and treat a heart attack.

$1,000,000 verdict against landlord on behalf of infant who suffered lead poisoning due to exposure to lead based paint.

$800,000 settlement for a gastric bypass malpractice case settled in the 1980s. This early case, involving Jejunoileal bypass, revolved around a failure by the surgeon to adequately monitor post-operative nutrition and electrolytes.