New York, NY
Medical malpractice Lawyer at New York, NY
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
OUTCOME: March, 2013 - Verdict for $3,600,000.00
Our client was a NYC licensed arc welder who welding a steel water tank when he fell from a ladder fracturing his wrist and injuring his cervical and lumbar spine. He was never able to resume his care ... er as a welder and remains permanently unemployable.
OUTCOME: May 2012 - Verdict for $1,000,000.00
Delay in diagnosis of laryngeal cancer resulting in a total laryngectomy rather than a partial laryngectomy.
OUTCOME: February 2012 - Verdict for $5,100,000.00
Our client was crossing 34th street by Herald Square with the walk sign in her favor, when a bus was waived thru a red light by a NYC traffic agent. The right front corner of the bus struck Ms. Lewis' ... head and the front tire ran over her foot and dragged her 10 feet beyond the crooswalk. The pedestrian foot was crushed with a degloving injury and required a partial amputation of her foot and multiple procedures. Her neuropathic pain can only be managed with heavy painkillers and neurontin that impair mental functioning and memory prevent her from returning to her full time job which
OUTCOME: Verdict reduced to $2,693,002 by Appellate Division
A New York City sanitation worker sustained debilitating injuries to his knee due to a dangerous condition of an oily slippery garage floor.The jury awarded him $5,100,000.00 for pain, disability, lost ... wages and future medical expenses. The defendant appealed claiming the verdict was excessive and that truck garages are inherently messy and dangerous. The Court rejected that argument but agreed the jury award was too high.
OUTCOME: Settled after 4 weeks of trial for $7,250,000.00
Jones was a NYC Corrections Officer who had demonstrated pychotic episodes, suicidal games of Russian roulette, verbal hallucinations and was in counseling provided by the Corrections Department. Due t ... o a failure of the medical division in sharing information with the division that controls access to the officer's weapon for personal protection outside the facility, the Officer was given her gun back while she was impaired from drinking and severely depressed in violation of the Corrections Department internal rules. The officer attempted suicide by shooting herself in the head but survived and recovered. The head injury resulted in the officer becoming a quadriplegic and dependent on others for the rest of her life.
OUTCOME: March 2008 - Verdict for $7,900,000.00
The defendant performed neurosugery on the patient who had a pre-op complaint of one sided weakness. A multilevel cervical fusion was performed that relied on a cage for fixation. The fixation device f ... ailed shortly after surgery and due to the delay in finding a proper neurosugeon to repair the fixation device, the patient became paralysed on the same side of his body where he previously only had weakness.
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