Verdicts and Settlements

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$2.3 million Jury verdict for a 45-year-old Queens County woman after two physicians employed at Elmhurst Medical Center failed to diagnose a large and obvious mass on her left breast as breast cancer.

$1.3 million personal injury settlement for an 18-year-old motorcycle rider when he was struck by a car making a left-hand turn, resulting in a below-the-knee amputation of his left leg.

$750,000 personal injury settlement during trial for a woman who tripped and fell in a dangerous hole located in a public sidewalk; she sustained an L4-L5 herniated disc that required open-back surgery including a laminectomy and discetomy.

$450,000 jury verdict for a mechanic whose face was crushed when a car he was working on was caused to fall off a jack.

$850,000 personal injury settlement during jury selection for a 76-year-old woman when a bus traveling to Atlantic City flipped over, causing her to sustain multiple disc herniations and spinal fractures.

$1.35 million personal injury settlement for a 50-year-old women when her orthopedic surgeon mis-diagnosed her back injuries and performed open-back surgery resulting in the traumatization of her nerve root and a permanent Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Condition (RSD).

$450,000 personal injury settlement for a 38-year-old women who was a passenger in a car that was slammed and pinned into a cement divider by a 18-wheel tractor trailer, causing her to lose several teeth and develop a permanent tempomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) condition.

$550,000 settlement at mediation in Manhattan for 42 year old accounts payable supervisor who slipped and fell down wet and soapy stairs in her Upper West Side apartment building injurying her lower back. The injuries required decompression and fusion surgery with the insertion of permanent hardware in her lower spine at L4-L5.

$320,000 Jury verdict for a 37 year old Bronx County bartender when a bathroom ceiling collapsed on his head while he was showering; He sustained a herniated disc in his neck and a bulging disc in his lower back and he had no surgery at the time of trial (although it was recommended).