Sixty-Six Year Old Lady had a Stairway Banister come out the wall as she went down a flight of stairs at work
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OUTCOME: $750,000.00
One of our clients, a sixty-six year old female, had the misfortune to have a stairway banister come out the wall as she went down a flight of stairs at work. She sustained injuries to her back, but be...cause of her age, and prior back problems, the only settlement offer was $100,000.00, which Wolf & Fuhrman, and our client rejected as to low. When then tried the case to a verdict, and received $750,000.00 for our client.
Medical malpractice
72 Year Old Man had a Burst Aneurysm in his brain after complaining to his Family Dr. over a number of months
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OUTCOME: $600,000.00.
After complaining to his family doctor of headaches ver a number of months, our client a 72 year old retiree had a burst aneurysm or blood vessel in his brain, which resulted in neurological damage. Th...e case was settled before trial for $600,000.00.
Medical malpractice
Physical Therapy Negligence
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OUTCOME: $640,000.00
Following a car accident, our client a retired UPS driver sustained damage to his shoulder for which he underwent arthroscopic surgery, and was then referred to a licensed physical therapist. Shortly a...fter under going therapy, his shoulder dislocated, requiring shoulder replacement surgery. Wolf & Fuhrman obtained him a $640,000.00 settlement in part because we were able to show the therapist had changed his records.
Medical malpractice
Unnecessary Foot Surgery
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OUTCOME: $500,000.00
Wolf & Fuhrman recently settled a case against a foot surgeon for $500,000.00 by proving the surgery to remove a piece of extra bone from beneath the client's first metatarsal was completely unnecessar...y. An x-ray report taken by another doctor just before the surgery showed the bone to be normal.
Medical malpractice
Negligence Of a Podiatrist
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OUTCOME: $700,000.00
Wolf & Fuhrman, obtained a verdict against a podiatrist that was increased by the trial judge to over $700,000.00, based upon the negligent insertion of a metal prosthesis into the joint under the big ...toe
Wrongful death
School-Bus Ride "Killed" Asthma Kid
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OUTCOME: $517,500.00
An ill Queens boy with a history of severe asthma attacks was sent home on a city bus by his school's nurse, only to die at a hospital less than an hour later, his family claims-in a law suit.
Joseph ...Carter, 13 went to the nurse at St. Anthony of Padua School around 12:30 p.m. on April 24 with an asthma attack, according to a lawsuit filed last month in Queens Supreme Court against the city and the nurse.
The RN, Judith Wackman, allegedly kept Carter in her office at the South Ozone Park School for two hours, where he used an inhaler before sending him home on a city bus not with an adult, but with his sister, according to court papers.
"His sister said that while he was on the bus, he was crying because he was in such distress" his lawyer Eliot Wolf said.
She told her mom how much pain he was in.
By the time the suffering child got to his Richmond Hill house at around 2:40 p.m. he was so sick that his mother called 911, according to court documents.
"If 911 was called 10 minutes earlier, it would have made a difference. This kid would have lived" Wolf said.
Medics got Carter, who had been intubated at least once before because of his asthma attacks, to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Wackman should have realized how serious the attack was and gotten Carter to a hospital, mom Janice Burch alleges in court papers.
"The mother had no reason to believe that there was a reason to worry when she sent him off to school" Wolf said.
"To allow a child like that on public transportation without making arrangements to safeguard the child is unacceptable."
The city which provides nursing staff to public and religious schools, did not comment on the law suit.
New York Post, Sunday December 28, 2008
By Kathianne Boniello
