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Medical Malpractice
Confidential settlement of a medical malpractice claim involving a healthcare provider’s misdiagnosis of a 10-day-old minor patient. As a result, the minor patient suffered extensive brain injuries which ultimately led to severe and profound cognitive and physical developmental delays.
Workers Compensation
Confidential settlement amount constituting the largest workers’ compensation award in the history of the employer on a state, national, and global lever. Claimant was thrown off a Walkie Rider onto some shelves lacerating her leg. One week later, the Claimant suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke. This on-the-job incident led to a left hemicraniectomy, resulting in severe and profound cognitive and physical disabilities.
Wrongful Death
$1,025,000 settlement with liability carrier for a wrongful death action. The defendant navigated his vehicle into the lane of the client, resulting in a catastrophic head-on collision. The client expired on scene as a result of the collision.
Auto/Truck Driver Negligence
$400,000 settlement of an 18 Wheeler (log truck) accident involving a 66 yr old truck driver who suffered an injury to his head, face, mouth, neck, chest, abdomen and legs. He was treated for carpal tunnel syndrome, surgical exploration of the extensor tendon of the index finger, a deformity of the base of the metacarpal, nonfunctioning left adrenal adenoma, broken ribs, multilevel cervical spondylosis, severe in grade C3-C4 through C6-C7, cellulitis, right leg, and severe osteoarthritis of the patellofemoral joint and mild osteoarthritis of the medial and lateral knee joints.
Wrongful Death
Confidential settlement of the wrongful death claim of a mother and father who lost their 16-year-old son in the Spring of 2009 while he was participating in football practice. Their son was hit during a play, went into Commotio Cordis, and passed away as a result of insufficient treatment by the coaches and the emergency medical services personnel.
Auto Negligence
$375,000 settlements on the claims of a 53-year-old man who suffered serious injuries in an automobile collision. He was diagnosed with injuries including, but are not limited to, blunt abdominal trauma, internal bleeding or Hemoperitoneum (presence of blood in the peritoneal cavity), liver laceration, arterial extravasation from omentum, spinal injuries, and other serious injuries and damages.
Premises Liability
$325,000 settlement with liability insurance carrier for injuries sustained by a 9-year-old child, who was injured when a gate on the school premises closed on her foot, breaking the foot, resulting in the need for amputation of two toes from the foot.
Workers Compensation
$300,000 settlement of Worker’s Compensation case involving insurance company who refused to pay for needed surgery
Insurance – Bad Faith
$257,924.52 settlement against the Life Insurance Company for denial of accidental life insurance benefits.
Auto Negligence
$250,000 settlement with 2 insurance carriers for the claims of a 23-year-old woman and her two children after an SUV was driven into her home, killing her 3-month-old child, and putting her and her 2-year-old child in the hospital. The mother suffered from multiple abrasions and hematoma to her forehead. The 2-year-old child suffered from multiple abrasions and a laceration over the posterior scalp.
Auto Negligence
$232,500 settlement against the insurance company for injuries sustained by a male and his four minor children when the defendant failed to yield while making a left turn.
Auto Negligence
$200,000 settlement with two insurance carriers on the claims of a 29-year-old woman, her fiancée, and their three children, a 10-year-old, 6-year-old and 1-year-old, who were hit by a drunk driver. The mother suffered from minor injuries to her cervical area. The father suffered from abdominal pain and multiple contusions. The 10-year-old suffered from contusion of the face and abrasions to her leg. The 6-year-old suffered from severe shock, hemoperitoneum, ruptured spleen, closed head injury, LeFort facial fracture and pulmonary contusion versus aspiration.
Workers Compensation
$175,000 settlement with insurance carrier for a 59-year-old claimant who injured his back when he fell on some metal while constructing a carport. He sustained injuries to left rib, a moderate size central disc herniation,T12-L1, a broad based annulus bulging with right-sided asymmetry, L2-3; a broad based central disc herniation present L3-4; a broad based central disc herniation L4-5 and L5-S1 facet arthropathy. The claimant ultimately underwent a T1 2- L5 laminectomy with instrumented posterolateral fusion.
Medical Malpractice
$150,000 settlement with insurance carrier in a case involving the dispensing of the wrong amount of prescription medication by a local pharmacy causing injuries and damages to the plaintiff leading to surgical complications.
Workers’ Compensation
$150,000 settlement with insurance carrier on the claims of a 42 year old man who suffered injuries at work when a backhoe carrying large stones fell on him and pinned him to the side of a ditch. He was diagnosed with bilateral flailed chest with pneumothorax, multiple facial fractures, multiple rib fractures, lacerated forehead, blood in ears, T-spine fractures, a lacerated liver, along with several other injuries.
Premises Liability
$100,000 settlement with insurance carrier on behalf of the Plaintiffs for the consumption of botulism-contaminated food. Plaintiff was treated for botulism poisoning and associated complications to include dysarthria (motor impairment), slurred speech, blurred vision, pneumonia, liver complications, ptosis (prolapse of the eye), severe mental anxiety and fear of death.
Workers Compensation
$99,500 settlement with insurance carrier. Claimant initially injured his rotator cuff jumping in and out of a forklift. He then hurt his back picking up bags from the floor after a pallet broke. Claimant had severe multi-level degenerative changes, most prominent at C4-5 where there was moderate central spinal stenosis.
Premises Liability
$95,000 settlement with insurance carrier arising from a fall on a slippery floor by a 58 year old male at a local restaurant. The incident resulted in a medial lateral meniscus tears, an anterior cruciate ligament tear, and a chondromalacia of the intertrochlear groove. As a result of this incident, Plaintiff underwent a surgical lateral meniscectomies and debridement of the anterior cruciate.
Auto Negligence
$95,000 settlement with insurance carrier. A 19-year-old woman sustained pain in her right rib area and had multiple cuts, contusions and abrasions about her entire body when her vehicle was struck by another vehicle which failed to yield and pulled into the path of her car. She also injured her neck, lacerated her right knee and forehead. She underwent surgery to repair the avulsion fracture to her right foot.
Workers’ Compensation
$85,000 settlement with insurance carrier. Plaintiff initially injured his right knee while loading a wood cart. A month later, he slipped and fell on wet sawdust while carrying a 2×10 on his shoulders, injuring his neck and re-injuring his knee. He subsequently underwent several surgeries to include: Anterior cervical diskectomy, C5-6 & C6-7 with spinal canal and neural foraminal decompression, Anterior cervical diskectomy, C4-5 with decompression on spinal canal and both neural foramina, Right knee arthroscopy and possible partial medial meniscectomy.
Auto Negligence
$85,000 settlement with insurance carrier for a 27-year-woman involved in a motor vehicle accident who suffered lower back pain, left shoulder pain, pain on the left side of her neck and an accompanying headache. The client ultimately underwent an anterior cervical discectomy for her herniated cervical disk at C5-6.
Discrimination
$75,000 settlement with employer for sexual discrimination
Discrimination
$70,000 settlement with employer for sexual discrimination
Premises Liability
$68,000 settlement with insurance carrier for the claims of female plaintiff who suffered an injury while using a metal ladder at the pool. The ladder broke and a piece of metal pierced her right leg causing a deep incision. The injury resulted in Right leg cellulitis secondary to the puncture wound.
Auto Negligence
$60,000 settlement with insurance carrier for the claims of a 52-year-old woman who was broad sided on the driver’s side resulting in back and cervical pain. More specifically, she had a small central disc herniation at C3-4 and C4-5 which caused a slight cord compression. She was accompanied by her two minor children who sustained minor injuries in the accident.
Discrimination
$50,000 settlement with employer for sexual discrimination
Auto Negligence
$50,000 settlement of an MVA with insurance carrier for injuries sustained by a 45 yr. old motorcycle driver who impacted the passenger door of a pickup. He suffered injuries to the left shoulder, both knees, tibia areas, and ankles. He also received a left AC Joint separation and a mildly displaced left 2nd rib fracture in the collision.
Premise Liability
$50,000 settlement with insurance carrier. A 69 yr old female Plaintiff suffered a slip/fall accident due to excessive water accumulation on the floor at a hospital caused by leakage from ceiling ducts and/or vents on the lobby floor caused by negligent maintenance of the air conditioning systems. Plaintiff suffered a lateral dislocation of her elbow with the radial head being subluxed laterally, as well as of the olecranon fossa to the lateral aspect of the trochlea, contusion and bruising of the left knee, and related injuries.
Auto Negligence
$50,000 settlement with UM carrier for the claims of a 28 year old restrained driver of an automobile which was at rest at a stop light when she was rear-ended by another vehicle. She was diagnosed with superior end-plate compression FX of L5 and left scapular FX with resultant shoulder pain.
Workers’ Compensation
$50,000 settlement with insurance carrier. A 53 year old claimant involved in a work related incident when the golf cart she was riding in took a sudden turn injuring her shoulder. She suffered a rotator cuff tear and underwent an ORIF procedure.
Wrongful Death
$50,000 settlement with two insurance carriers with limited coverage. Client was a passenger being driven by someone under the influence of alcohol, who turned in front of another car. The driver of the other vehicle was also under the influence of alcohol. The impact of the collision resulted in the on-scene death of the client.
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