TYPE: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Patient suffered anoxic brain damage after anesthesiologist failed to monitor
oxygen levels during a cesarean section. Hospital failed to properly credential
or monitor physician. Our firm served as co-counsel for patient’s
conservator.
Settlement for plaintiff against hospital, anesthesiologist,
and anesthesiologist’s professional corporation:
$16,725,000 |
TYPE: FALLDOWN
Our client was a visiting nurse, taking care of an
86-year-old woman. Following a snowstorm, our
client reported to work at 7:00 a.m., slipped and
fell on ice on the front steps and broke her ankle. The
walk had been shoveled an hour earlier.
Expert
Testimony revealed that a freezing rain had occurred
approximately 6 hours prior to the commencement
of our client's shift. The jury awarded $150,000.00,
finding that the homeowner should have arranged
for salting and sanding of the walkway in order
to provide safe passage for our client to report
to work.
Judgement for plaintiff against homeowner:
$150,000. |
TYPE: WORKER'S
COMPENSATION
Our client was employed as a nurse at a large hospital. The
hospital had a Managed Care Plan in place. Our
client suffered a back injury as a result of lifting
a patient. Several years later, while working in
Texas, she suffered an exacerbation of that accident
which required surgery. Our client underwent
surgery and was out of work for 1.5 years. The
hospital denied her claim on the basis that she
had treated with an unauthorized out of state physician.
Following a formal hearing and an appeal to the
Compensation Review Board, it was determined that
our client was entitled to get temporary total
benefits for the year and a half that she was out
along with payment of her medical bills. |
TYPE: PRODUCT
LIABILITY
Our client was a 65 year old man whose lower left
leg had been amputated. He purchased a prosthetic
limb, which was fitted by the seller. A few
days later, he complained that the locking device
was not working; he was assured that it was functioning
properly. Two days later, the prosthesis
fell off while he was walking, causing him to fall
and sustain multiple knee fractures. Complications
developed which prevented him from using a new
prosthesis and caused him to fall a second time,
while using crutches. In the second fall,
he fractured the femur in the same leg.
Suit
was brought against the seller and fitter of the
defective prosthesis. The case was settled at a
mediation conference for over $300,000. |
TYPE: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Patient presents to hospital emergency room with complaints of chest pain and
upper back pain. Patient is then evaluated by ER physician and patient’s
primary care physician and discharged despite abnormal chest x-ray. Patient
dies the next day from an undiagnosed ruptured aortic aneurysm.
Settlement for plaintiff against hospital and
primary care physician: $2,100,000 |
TYPE: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Patient treats with primary care physician for routine annual physical examinations.
Patient’s prostate screening test is elevated. Primary care physician
does not inform patient of results or refer patient to a urologist
Settlement for plaintiff against primary care
physician: $550,000 |
TYPE: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Child was treated by pediatrician during first year of child’s life.
Pediatrician fails to diagnose and/or treat displacement of the femoral head.
Settlement for plaintiff against pediatrician:
$270,000 |
TYPE: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Patient suffered damage to ulnar nerve during surgery causing numbness to part
of non-dominant hand.
Settlement for plaintiff against surgeon: $300,000 |
TYPE: PERSONAL INJURY
Plaintiff’s decedent was driver of motor vehicle involved in a minor
accident. Her motor vehicle came to rest in the right lane of I-84. Shortly
afterward, she was struck by another vehicle operated by a driver under the
influence of alcohol. Plaintiff decedent dies shortly afterward.
The vehicle operated by the driver under the influence
of alcohol, was owned by the driver’s father.
The driver’s father had signed a document
for his insurance carrier, excluding his daughter
from liability coverage under his million-dollar
umbrella policy.
The driver had her own insurance policy of $100,000.
Settlement against driver and owner of motor vehicle:
$925,000
Additionally, a dram shop action was brought against
the bar that served alcohol to the impaired driver.
Settlement against bar: $250,000, the collectable
limit pursuant to Connecticut law. |
TYPE: PERSONAL
INJURY
Plaintiff, an elderly woman, was walking across the street in a crosswalk when
she was struck by a vehicle making a left turn. Plaintiff suffered injury
to her knee. The driver had a limited insurance policy, which was offered
and thereafter an underinsured motorist claim was made under a policy
held by the plaintiff’s daughter with whom the plaintiff resided.
Settlement against driver and underinsured motorist
policy: $200,000 |
TYPE: PRODUCTS
LIABILITY
Our client was a passenger
in an SUV which was proceeding at about the
speed limit on a divided highway. The driver
lost control around a curve hit a guardrail and the SUV turned over, throwing
him out of the vehicle and causing him
severe injuries, including a fractured neck and
paralyzing him from the neck down.
By use of expert testimony we were able to establish
that the vehicle was not designed to prevent a
rollover. We established a design defect
in the SUV and recovered a multi-million dollar
settlement. |
TYPE: MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE
A middle-aged client went to his family dentist for fairly routine dental
work. He was given novocaine and immediately felt a sharp pain. Although
he tried to protest and get the dentist to stop the procedure, the dentist
continued to drill.
After
the treatment, the client’s numbness
persisted, and client lost most of his sense
of taste.
The case went to trial. The
jury awarded our client $330,000 for the losses
he suffered. |
TYPE: PERSONAL
INJURY
Our client was a passenger in a motor vehicle which lost control, left the highway
and stuck a stone wall. The plaintiff, though she was 92 years of age,
had been living independently in her own apartment. She sustained a broken
hip and was no longer able to care for herself and needed assistance with bathing,
dressing, and other activities of daily living. She never fully recovered
from her injuries.
Her injury claim was settled for $450,000!! |
TYPE:WORKER'S
COMPENSATION
Our client suffered a head injury at work after
falling from a forklift. Our client sustained
a fracture of the skull and claimed permanent total
disability. The case was resolved through
a structured settlement with a present value in
excess of $1 Million. |
TYPE: DOG
KNOCKDOWN
The plaintiff, a 69-year-old woman, was knocked
into by a dog, causing an injury to her knee. A
lawsuit was brought against the dog owner and defended
through the dog owner’s homeowner’s
insurance policy. The case was settled for $125,000.
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