Every case is different and the value of a case depends on numerous factors such as the extent of the liability, the age of the injured person, the type and extent of injury and the degree of permanency, just to name a few. The following samples are meant only as an illustration of some of our recent successes on behalf of our clients, and prior results cannot and do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter, including yours. Please feel free to contact us to discuss any matter.
Confidential Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a New York City woman who suffered Stage IV pressure ulcers.
Confidential Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for the rape of a 90 year old resident by an aide while the resident was in the nursing home unit of a hospital. The aide was later convicted of rape
Confidential Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a fall from a wheelchair resulting in the wrongful death of an 84 year old nursing home resident in Upstate New York.
$4,000,000 – Settlement Before Liability Verdict – Motor Vehicle – construction site accident – pedestrian construction worker struck by motorist resulting in a leg amputation.
$3,120,000 – Verdict – Labor Law – construction accident – a laborer was injured in trench collapse; there were industrial code violations. This resulted in a crush injury to chest, collapsed lung, herniated lumbar disc- and psychological injuries.
$1,500,000 – Verdict – Nursing Home Negligence – a nurse failed to properly identify a resident, who was administered the wrong medication, resulting in death. Verdict included $800,000 in punitive damages. Read the summary here, as published in the New York Law Journal
$1,350,000 – Settlement – Medical Malpractice – failure to diagnose and treat “Steal Syndrome” in diabetic resulting in finger amputations.
$1,300,000 – Settlement – Premises Liability – festival accident. A child participant was stabbed in eye by blade during interpretive dancing resulting in partial blindness in one eye.
$1,000,000 – Settled PreTrial – Nursing Home Abuse – A Department of Health investigation found that a dementia resident’s aide roughly handled her, was abusive and aggressive, causing plaintiff to fall, fracture her hip and die the next day. Kings County, September 2019.
$975,000 – Settlement – Medical Malpractice – for a 57 year old resident who was recovering from a head injury. The facility failed to supervise the resident who suffered a fall resulting in a subdural hematoma with permanent loss of mobility, vision and function.
$950,000 – Settlement – Motor Vehicle – plaintiff was in the process of securing his car to a tow truck, when he was hit by his own car, which had been rear-ended by another vehicle. Plaintiff sustained head and shoulder injuries.
$850,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for an Air Force Veteran with Parkinson’s Disease who suffered significant pain from bed sores. The facility had been cited in 2018 by the Department of Health for neglecting its residents as related to skin, incontinence and pressure ulcer care. They had even uncovered fraudulent records related to the care given to our plaintiff. Columbia County, August 2020.
$775,000 – Settlement – Premises Liability – plaintiff was shot by intruder in unsecured building resulting in paraplegia.
$575,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered from multiple infected pressure ulcers which became infected resulting in death.
$575,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – facility failed to address pressure sore resulting in a below the knee amputation.
$550,000 – Settlement – Medical Malpractice – childbirth – failure to timely perform caesarean resulting in a uterine atony and hematomas, foreign object and subsequent surgeries.
$525,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – facility failed to address resident’s pressure ulcers resulting in death.
$517,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – facility failed to supervise resident which resulted in a fall resulting in a fractured neck, surgery, and death.
$500,000 – Verdict – Medical Malpractice – following surgery, a patient developed multiple pressure ulcers while in the hospital.
$500,000 – Settlement – Labor Law – construction accident – a worker tripped on nail sticking out of floor resulting in a torn meniscus and knee replacement.
$477,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered from multiple pressure ulcers which became infected resulting in death.
$475,000 – Settlement – Home Health Care Negligence – failure to address pressure ulcers resulting in a hospitalization and subsequently, death.
$475,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 91 year old upstate nursing home resident who was left unattended in a bathroom which resulted in a fall and fractured right femur.
$475,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered a fall with a fractured left femur and in addition, developed a pressure sore to the right heel requiring an amputation.
$450,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – facility failed to supervise the resident which resulted in a fall out of bed, a fractured hip with surgery and complications.
$447,500 – Settled PreTrial – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered bed sores.
$450,000 – Settled at Trial – Nursing Home Negligence and Hospital Negligence – for a resident who suffered bed ulcers with below-the-knee amputation of leg.
$435,000 – Verdict – Hospital Negligence – for a patient who received a liver transplant, with complications after surgery, leading to bed sores.
$430,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who fell resulting in an avulsion fracture and developed several pressure ulcers.
$430,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 68 year old resident who developed stage IV sacral and heel pressure ulcers.
$417,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – facility failed to supervise resident which resulted in a fall, fracture, closed reduction surgery, and a pressure ulcer from cast.
$415,000 – Settlement – Motor Vehicle – passenger in intersection accident – resulting in a fractured pelvis and hip.
$400,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence and Hospital Negligence – bed sore case.
$380,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence and Hospital Negligence – for a stage 4 bed sore case.
$362,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 68 year old resident who developed pressure ulcers, became malnourished and subsequently died.
$360,000 – Settlement – Premises Liability – negligent maintenance of boiler – child suffered second and third degree burns.
$350,000 – Settlement – Labor Law – construction accident – a laborer tripped over wire under construction debris resulting in a bilateral torn menisci.
$332,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home and Hospital Negligence – bed sore case.
$330,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence -for a 63 year old resident who was dropped from a lift resulting in a fractured femur. She also developed a stage IV pressure ulcer.
$325,000 – Settlement – Hospital Negligence – hospital failed to address patient’s pressure ulcers.
$307,500 – Settlement – Hospital Negligence –for a resident who developed pressure ulcers resulting in death.
$300,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – fall resulting in bi-lateral fractured hips with surgeries.
$300,000 – Verdict – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 91 year old woman who fell and suffered a fracture of her left hip and left humerus.
$300,000 – Verdict – Nursing Home Negligence – confidential settlement with one of the Defendants. A 70 year old resident who developed pressure ulcers requiring several surgical debridements. He subsequently died.
$300,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for an 86 year old woman who fell in a nursing home resulting in a fractured hip.
$287,500 – Settled at Trial – Nursing Home Negligence and Hospital Negligence – bed sore case.
$285,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for an 81 year old resident who developed several pressure ulcers that became severely infected requiring surgical debridements.
$275,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for the wrongful death of a 65 year old resident who had a history of kidney disease; the facility failed to monitor laboratory values and test results while receiving antibiotic treatments.
$275,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for the wrongful death of a 26 year old nursing home resident who suffered from Addison’s disease in a New York City facility. The facility failed to properly manage his Addison’s disease and he developed pressure ulcers while a resident.
$270,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence and Hospital Negligence – bed sore case.
$262,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 69 year old resident who developed pressure ulcers resulting in surgical debridements, an amputation and ultimately death.
$250,000 – Settlement – Home Health Care Negligence – for a woman that fell at home resulting in a fractured left hip.
$250,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered a fall resulting in a right hip fracture and developed pressure ulcers.
$250,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – the facility failed to supervise the resident which resulted in a fall, head injury with craniotomy and subsequently, death.
$250,000 -Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who fell resulting in a fracture of the right hip and developed several pressure ulcers.
$250,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – failure to properly transfer the resident which resulted in a fall with fractured hip and subsequent closed reduction surgery.
$240,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – Patient at high risk for falls was allowed to ambulate and suffers fractured hip in hospital, closed reduction, and re-fractures hip in nursing home.
$230,000 – Settlement at Trial – Nursing Home Negligence – for an 88 year old resident who developed several pressure ulcers, became severely malnourished and died.
$225,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who had several urinary tract infections, became severely dehydrated and died. This particular facility was cited by the NYS Department of Health for several deficiencies including insufficient staff, medication errors and in not having proper management of said facility. This was a grossly mismanaged facility.
$225,000 – Settlement – Motor Vehicle – rear end accident resulting in a torn achilles tendon.
$212,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – gastrostomy tube was negligently replaced resulting in peritonitis and death.
$200,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – failure to monitor a resident’s blood sugar which resulted in a diabetic coma and death.
$200,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered a fall resulting in a fractured hip.
$200,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence and Hospital Negligence – for a paraplegic who suffered bed sores.
$195,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence- for a nursing home resident who was asphyxiated as a result of being tangled in the bedrails resulting in death.
$175,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 72 year old woman who fell from her wheelchair resulting in a fractured femur.
$150,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Abuse – for a nursing home resident with dementia who was assaulted by an aide, resulting in a fractured arm which may have contributed to her death a month later.
$150,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 36 year old woman with Multiple Sclerosis who fell from a defective Hoyer lift resulting in a left hip fracture.
$150,000 – Arbitration – Nursing Home Negligence – for a woman who fell from her bed resulting in an odontoid (neck) fracture and a large hematoma.
$150,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence for a 36 year old woman with Multiple Sclerosis who fell from a defective Hoyer lift resulting in a left hip fracture.
$142,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for an 80 year old woman who fell from her bed resulting in death.
$140,000 – Settlement – Home Health Aide Negligence – for a patient, who had no feeling in their lower extremities, who was burned by scalding hot water as they sat in a bathtub.
$125,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 92 year old resident who fell and died the next day.
$125,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 24 year old autistic man who was assaulted by a staff member of a residential treatment center in Upstate New York.
$100,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who fell twice within seven (7) hours of being admitted to a nursing home resulting in a hairline hip fracture without surgery.
$100,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 94 year old woman whose rights as a nursing home resident were routinely violated. There was no specific injury in this case but rather she was neglected.
$95,000 – Settlement– Nursing Home Negligence – for a 91 year old man who fell from bed and sustained a neck fracture. The nursing home in this case did not have any insurance.
$95,000.00 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for an 84 year old resident who suffered several falls, the last one resulting in a fracture of the left hip.
$90,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who fell and suffered a fractured ankle that did not require surgery.
$85,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered from multiple falls and pressure ulcers resulting in death.
$37,500 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 97 year old demented resident who was admitted for a seven (7) day respite stay and became severely dehydrated resulting in IV fluids post discharge and the development of acute renal failure.
$37,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a 93 year old resident who endured pain and suffering as a result of a medication error.
$30,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who suffered bruising and swelling from a fall while being transferred. There was no serious injury.
$30,000 – Settlement – Nursing Home Negligence – for a resident who fell backwards from her wheelchair while being attended to by aides. She suffered a laceration requiring stitches with no visible scarring because it was on her scalp.
Defense Verdict – Nursing Home Negligence – An upstate 93 year old woman with Alzheimer’s disease died in a nursing home from renal failure caused by dehydration. The jury didn’t think the nursing home was at fault and ruled in favor of the nursing home.
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