Serious injuries are physical and emotional injuries that have a significant impact on a person’s working and/or personal life, and were caused by:

 

  • failing to keep a construction site hazard-free, including supplying the wrong or defective tools

  • mesothelioma from asbestos exposure

  • carelessness by drivers of cars, trucks or buses

  • defective drugs or products

  • failing to keep property hazard-free, including from tripping hazards

  • injuries during international airline flights

  • civil rights violations, including discrimination and wrongful arrest

Results Include:

 

✓ $15 million jury verdict in U.S. District Court in favor of father against non-U.S. airline operating out of JFK Int’l Airport based on conspiracy between it and mother and her family from same country to remove American-born daughter from the U.S. in violation of family court order

✓ $2.7 million pre-trial settlement ($4.5 million future value) in favor of estate and surviving wife/children for the death of husband/father who contracted mesothelioma 20 years after cutting asbestos cement pipes

✓ $1.5 million pre-trial settlement in favor of carpenter injured at a Manhattan 60-floor building construction site by jerry-rigged mechanical hand saw supplied by his employer

✓ $900,000 pre-trial settlement in favor of 28-year old who suffered third-degree burns on a thigh and stomach from spilled hot tea water during an international flight

✓ $495,000 pre-trial settlement in favor of 82-year old who suffered kidney damage after using popular colonoscopy preparation product

✓ $415,000 pre-trial settlement in favor of 58-year old who suffered a hip injury after tripping and falling in a gouged-out road repair

✓ $350,000 settlement, after jury selection, in favor of woman who suffered nerve damage to her breast from a cell phone that was operating for nine hours, even though not being actively used

✓ $350,000 pre-trial settlement in favor of a high school who suffered a fractured knee after tripping on spilled liquid that school had failed to mop up

✓ $300,000 pre-trial settlement, full value of auto insurance policy, for knee and neck injuries requiring surgery

✓ $250,000 jury verdict in favor of driver who suffered a shoulder tear causing by another driving backing up into his car

✓ $218,000 pre-trial settlement in favor of female high school student who had been bullied into performing sexual acts on male students over several months in unpoliced and locked school stairwells

✓ $190,000 pre-trial settlement in favor of two teenage females who were illegally patted down and verbally abused by NYC undercover police officers

✓ $110,000 settlement in favor of 80-year old who suffered hypersensitivity pneumonitis from toxic mold exposure in NYC apartment; landlord also waived $75,000 in back rent