Experienced New York Motorcycle Accident Attorneys

Our Personal Injury Law Experience

• Due to strict confidentiality agreements or client preferences in some cases, we are unable to report some of our other successes for additional figures or examples in certain practice areas and categories, but the following is a small sampling of some of our successes.
• Defective Products
  • $4.9 million verdict for a worker whose arm was amputated in a conveyor.
  • $1.4 million federal verdict for a worker whose arm was mangled in a plastic pipe making machine.
  • $490,000 settlement for a worker whose hand was crushed in a belling machine.
  • $450,000 settlement for estate of woman who was ejected from her car in a collision when the seat back failed.
• Property Liability
  • Confidential settlement obtained against recreational facility (negligence) for substantial injuries to hip and spine to child injured during a basketball practice.
  • $1.7 million verdict for a child who sustained a brain injury when a slide at a campground fell on him.
  • $1.6 million settlement against a major municipality that negligently maintained a bridge which collapsed.
  • $1.23 million jury verdict following a 7-day trial for a woman injured in a property negligence case.
  • Confidential settlement against retail store for injury to back necessitating surgery as a result of failure to remove obstacle on floor causing patron to trip.
  • Confidential settlement for broken wrist to 67 year old woman after she slipped on foreign substance at restaurant and evidence demonstrated that restaurant was aware of a recurring condition caused by customer spills.
  • $489,000 verdict for an 83-year-old woman who suffered severe injury due to the failure on the part of an assisted living center to provide emergency lighting
  • $550,000 net recovery after settlement for a 45 year old man who slipped on carpeting that was improperly shampooed.
  • $280,000 settlement for 54 year old woman who slipped on ice outside of a restaurant after ice constantly accumulated as a result of snow melt from overhang.
  • $236,000 verdict for 87 year old woman with macular degeneration who fell down basement stairs resulting in fractured hip, fractured leg and rotator cuff tear.
  • $155,000 settlement for 41 year old woman who slipped on landlord’s untreated sidewalk, sustaining a fractured ankle.
  • $102,000 settlement for a 62 year old man who fell down stairs and fractured his ankle.
  • $80,000 settlement for a woman thrown from a horse, which resulted in a separated shoulder.
• Medical Malpractice
  • Confidential settlement obtained against hospital (medical negligence) for substantial injury to patient who sustained a severe anoxic brain injury on the psychiatric floor.
  • $2.2 million settlement for a child whose pediatrician failed to diagnose a benign, operable brain tumor for 7 years leading to severe cognitive deficits.
  • $2 million settlement for a child who suffered brain damage during birth due to lack of timely intervention by medical personnel.
  • $1.7 million verdict for the estate of a wife and mother discharged from the hospital with a life-threatening disease which, in fact, took her life.
  • $1.7 million verdict against a surgeon and hospital responsible for leaving a sponge in a patient causing severe infection.
  • Achieved a confidential resolution for our client in a matter involving an undiagnosed blood clot that ultimately caused a lower leg amputation.
  • $600,000 settlement for a police officer damaged during an abdominal operation.
  • $500,000 settlement for a new mother who sustained an undetected fourth-degree laceration during childbirth.
  • $475,000 settlement for 40 year old woman injured after improper placement of screws around discs during back fusion surgery.
  • $425,000 verdict for a woman who was damaged during a botched gallbladder operation.
  • $325,000 settlement for misdiagnosed and improperly treated heart attack in 68 year old woman.
  • $255,000 settlement for client due to the misdiagnosis of a severe spinal disc injury.
  • $160,000 settlement for a female patient seduced by the doctor who was treating her for depression.
  • $150,000 settlement due to removal of the wrong thyroid gland in 54 year old woman.
• Vehicle Accidents
  • $1.4 million settlement for young woman who sustained permanent brain damage as a result of a motor vehicle accident.
  • $825,000 settlement for serious spine injury in a motor vehicle accident.
  • $800,000 policy limits settlement for young lady who sustained personal injuries in a motor vehicle accident, and also lost her mother and younger brother in same accident.
  • $525,000 settlement obtained from trucking company that caused injury to client/motorist on highway following crash, resulting in low back surgery and injury to both knees.
  • $500,000 policy limits settlement for 55-year-old woman who was crushed between two parked cars, which were struck by a farm tractor.
  • $500,000 settlement for a rear seat passenger who suffered a fractured pelvis and head injuries from a car accident.
  • $325,000 for the wrongful death of a retired grandmother.
  • $325,000 settlement for wrongful death of a teenage passenger.
  • $250,000 settlement for the estate of an 18-year-old passenger killed by the driver’s negligence.
  • $250,000 policy limits settlement for the death of a father of five whose motorcycle was struck head-on.
  • $250,000 settlement for pedestrian struck in crosswalk by car that resulted in fractured pelvis and femur.
  • $235,000 settlement for a 42-year-old man whose car was struck head-on and suffered significant ankle and foot injuries.
  • $225,000 settlement for a disabled bus passenger for neck injuries suffered when the special county-run bus she was riding overturned.
  • Jury verdict for $127,000 to two teenagers who suffered low back injuries as a result of a rear-end collision.
  • $80,000 settlement for a 45 year old woman involved in a car accident resulting in a non-displaced fracture of wrist.
• Labor Law Violations
  • $950,000 settlement for the estate of an asbestos worker who was killed when a crane operator dropped a beam on him.
  • $540,000 settlement obtained against the State of New York for spinal injury sustained by iron worker knocked off bridge abutment during highway construction.
  • $540,000 settlement plus waiver of workers’ compensation lien for torn meniscus from ladder fall.
  • $500,000 settlement plus waiver of compensation lien for a worker seriously injured when an unshored brick wall fell on him.
  • $485,000 settlement for worker who fell off a roof and severely fractured his ankle. Recalcitrant worker defense defeated.
• General Personal Injury
  • $101,000 settlement to 21 year old college student who suffered fractured teeth after being punched by another student.