Teenager suffered severe TBI attempting to AWOL from residential program

Dec 20, 2017

OUTCOME: $6,000,000 settlement

Rotator cuff injury from low-speed crash that resulted in $75 of property damage to the plaintiff's truck

Nov 21, 2014

OUTCOME: $124,000 verdict

Minor impact rear-end multi-vehicle collision resulted in shoulder injury that insurance company disputed as a result of which it did not make any pre-trial offers of settlement. The relatively minor ... property damage to the plaintiff's vehicle was in part because of its hitch. When there is a hitch there is much less energy absorbed by the vehicle and that energy is transferred to the occupants.

Adult day-care facility allowed elopement of elderly man with dementia, resulting in fractured hip in fall off-premises fall

Jan 20, 2014

OUTCOME: $85,000 settlement

The failure to supervise an elderly man's walking from the bus into the adult day-care facility resulted in his wandering off and sustaining a hip fracture off of the premises.

Failure to properly anticoagulate after hip replacement surgery resulted in pulmonary embolism

Dec 18, 2013

OUTCOME: $775,000 settlement

Despite well-accepted guidelines and the hospital's own policies recommending an INR range of 2.0 to 3.0, orthopedic surgeon ordered an INR of up to 2.0 or below, resulting in pulmonary embolism.

Defective medical device and medical malpractice resulted in elderly patient's untimely death

Dec 09, 2013

OUTCOME: $2,000,000 settlement

Failure of medical device as a result of manufacturers' failure to test and to warn and as a result of medical care providers' failure to follow instructions for use resulted in the death of an elderly ... woman.

Tibial plateau fracture sustained in car crash required fixation and probable TKA

Jan 02, 2013

OUTCOME: $450,000 settlement

Car crash resulted in tibial plateau fracture that required surgical fixation with plates and screws, and will require multiple additional surgeries including a total knee arthroplasty, and which left ... plaintiff with a permanent partial disability of his leg (12%). The defendant's insurer disputed the need for future surgeries.

Front-seat passenger in car rear-ended by tandem tractor-trailer on I-84 sustained cluster headaches and spine injuries

Jul 26, 2011

OUTCOME: $275,000 settlement

Cluster headaches are sometimes referred to in the medical literature as the worst pain a person can endure.

Motor vehicle crash resulted from fatigued and distracted trucker's negligence and caused life-changing injuries

Apr 15, 2011

OUTCOME: $6,721,534 verdict reduced by 27% for comparative negligence

2nd chaired lengthy trial on behalf of a woman and her husband severely injured as a resulted of a collision with a tractor-trailer driven by a fatigued and distracted trucker in violation of the Fair ... Motor Carrier Safety Regulations