OUR CASE RESULTS

Tens of Millions of Dollars Recovered for Injured New Yorkers

Pedestrian Hit By Driver

$2,000,000

$2,000,000.00 to a retired woman who sustained numerous hand and wrist fractures requiring surgery while walking into the street to hail a cab. The Plaintiff was struck by the Defendant’s pickup truck which was in the process of backing up out of a parking spot.

Car Accident

$1,950,000

$1,950,000.00 to plaintiff who sustained fractures to his lower extremity when involved in an intersection accident.

Bus Accident

$1,875,000

$1,875,000.00 to an administrative assistant who was struck in the rear by a bus and sustained cervical and lumbar herniations requiring surgery.

Car Accident

$1,534,000

$1,534,000 settlement to a back seat passenger in a livery vehicle who underwent a lumbar fusion surgery with a revision procedure.

Car Accident

$1,450,000

$1,450,000.00 to a student that was injured in a Florida highway accident who sustained a lumbar herniated disc requiring surgical intervention.

Car Accident

$1,150,000

$1,150,000.00 to student who sustained herniated discs requiring surgery while a passenger in a van that was cut off by another motor vehicle.

Automobile Accident

$1,125,000

medical equipment delivery man in his late 50’s who sustained herniated discs in his neck requiring surgery and a left shoulder SLAP tear while driving a work van that was stuck in the rear by an automobile.

Automobile Accident

$1,125,000

$1,125,000 settlement to a 60 year old man who sustained a type 1 SLAP tear of the shoulder and a cervical fusion surgery as a result of bulging disc at C5-C7.

Rear-End Accident

$850,000

$850,000.00 to a middle-aged plaintiff who was rear-ended while at a stoplight and sustained a shoulder tear and cervical disc herniation which required fusion surgery.

Automobile Accident

$1,000,000

(full policy settlement) to a middle age man involved in an automobile accident who claimed a herniated discs at L4-S1 requiring a lumbar fusion surgery. The defense contended that the herniations were pre-existing and not related to the accident.

Car Accident

$675,000

$675,000.00 to a woman involved in an automobile accident who claimed a herniated disc in her cervical spine and an aggravation of herniated and bulging discs in the cervical and lumbar spine requiring a cervical fusion surgery. Plaintiff had prior lumbar and cervical fusion surgeries in connection with a prior accident and spine conditions. The defense contended that she did not sustain a serious injury in the accident and merely suffered from the natural progression of her degenerative spinal condition that preceded the subject accident.

Van Accident

$675,000

$675,000.00 to a plaintiff who was struck by a van and sustained a herniated disc and extremity injuries.

Automobile accidents

$600,000

$600,000 settlement. Subsequent to jury selection to a middle-age woman who was involved in an automobile accident. Plaintiff had two prior automobile accidents injuring some of the parts of her body in issue with the lawsuit. Causation was contested by the defendant.

Pedestrian Accident

$550,000

$550,000.00 to a middle-aged plaintiff who was struck at an intersection and sustained knee injuries requiring two arthroscopic surgeries and a right shoulder tear.

Slip & Fall

$470,000

$470,000.00 to an 86 year old woman that tripped and fell on an uneven portion of asphalt in a parking lot who sustained a fractured left shoulder requiring a reverse arthroplasty.

Slip & Fall

$470,000

To a middle age man who fell off of a stoop without a railing who had a history of drug and alcohol abuse. The plaintiff claimed head and spinal injuries in the initial fall. Thereafter, he claimed that he blacked out and drove his car off of the Staten Island Expressway and struck a tree
thereby sustaining numerous other bodily injuries as a result of the head trauma he sustained in the stoop accident that took place approximately 9 months prior to the single vehicle car accident. The defense contended that the subsequent accident was not related to the head injuries from the stoop accident, but were instead related to his past history of 13 concussions relating back to his high school and college sports days and/or his history of drug and alcohol abuse. The available insurance coverage in this case was only $500,000.00.

Rear-End Accident

$450,000

$450,000.00 to a 60-year-old plaintiff who was in a rear-end collision and sustained cervical disc herniations.

Slip & Fall

$450,000

$450,000.00 to a middle-aged plaintiff who tripped and fell when she attempted to step over a plastic gate that was utilized to keep the defendant’s dog from gaining access to certain rooms in the defendant’s house (defendant offered $25,000.00 prior to obtaining the jury verdict).

Workplace Accident

$400,000

$400,000.00 to a plaintiff who was involved in an unwitnessed fall from a ladder while at work thereby sustaining a torn ACL in his lower left extremity.

Scaffolding Accident

$400,000

$400,000.00 to a construction worker that was hit on the head while attempting to move a scaffold who sustained a cervical herniation and a meniscal tear of the knee requiring arthroscopic surgery.

Shattered Window Injuries

$385,000

$385,000.00 for a tenant who was injured when his apartment window blew open and shattered thereby causing him to sustain lacerations and scarring to his arm.

Car Accident

$325,000

woman in her 30’s who tripped and fell in the backyard area of her rental house who sustained an anterior talofibular ligament sprain (foot) and an aggravation of a L5-S1 lumbar herniated disc that previously required surgery.

Car Accident

$300,000

$300,000.00 to a plaintiff who sustained a herniated disc and a slap tear of the left shoulder when he was struck from behind on the highway (defendant offered $25,000.00 prior to obtaining a jury verdict).

Car Accident

$290,000

$290,000 of a $300,000 insurance policy as a result of a trip and fall accident on an unlevel walkway flag that was located between the driveway and the front door. Liability was contested by the defendant as plaintiff lived there and was said to have walked over the 1/3” height differential between walkway flags on a daily basis.

Car Accident

$250,000

$250,000.00 to a woman involved in an automobile accident who claimed herniated discs and an aggravation and exacerbation of her multiple sclerosis condition (at arbitration defendant offered $20,000.00 to settle which was rejected bu the plaintiff; and, subsequently, after a full hearing on the merits, the arbitrator awarded the full available policy limits.

Herniated Discs

$250,000

$250,000.00 expeditious policy tender to a 30 year old man who sustained herniated discs requiring surgical intervention.

Pedestrian Accident

$250,000

$250,000.00 to an intoxicated plaintiff who fell from a seated position from the trunk of his friend’s car when his friend drove away thereby causing plaintiff to sustain head injuries and a mild mallet finger.

Slip & Fall

$220,000

$220,000.00 to a woman who slipped on a recently painted staircase and sustained multiple cervical and lumbar bulging and herniated discs that were treated conservatively with chiropractic treatment, physical therapy, and acupuncture. The plaintiff did not have any epidural injections or surgery.

Herniated Discs

$175,000

elderly man who tripped and fell on a raised sidewalk thereby sustaining a broken nose and a broken right hand with a slight 1-2mm anterior displacement of the fragment.