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• Over 60 Cases Tried to Verdict, Including the Following:

• $1.7 million verdict in gas explosion, Dalloo v. Keyspan, (Supreme Court, Suffolk County, February 9, 2010) – 40 year old woman suffered severe neck and back injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder in building collapse
• $1 million medical malpractice verdict, Rothstein v. Mayer, (Supreme Court, State of New York, Orange County, 2001) – wrongful death of 61 year old woman due to surgical error
• $1.3 million medical malpractice verdict, Ball v. Shanahan, (Supreme Court, State of New York, Orange County, 1995) – misdiagnosis of breast cancer in pregnant woman
• $12.3 million medical malpractice verdict, Godin v. Schapiro, (Federal Court, N.D.N.Y. 1992) – mistreatment of dehydration of baby, resulting in cerebral palsy
• $2 million medical malpractice verdict, Beatt v. Hoffman (Supreme Court, State of New York, New York County, 1985) – quadriplegia, lack of informed consent to brain surgery
• $2.1 million medical malpractice verdict, Hutton v. Mayo Clinic, (Federal Court, D. Minn. 1984) - quadriplegia following brain surgery

• Numerous Multi-Million Dollar Settlements, Including the Following:

• $2,000,000 (Medical Malpractice) Partial paralysis due to delayed diagnosis of back infection (Supreme Court, State of New York, Westchester County, 2007)
• $2,600,000 (Medical Malpractice) Death of mother of five due to undiagnosed brain aneurysm (Supreme Court, State of New York, Bronx County, 2006)
• $4,500,000 (Motor vehicle) Paralyzed arm, chronic pain and traumatic brain injury (Supreme Court, State of New York, Nassau County, 2005)
• $2,000,000 (Medical Malpractice) Anesthesia death of young Mother (Supreme Court, State of New York, Orange County, 2004)
• $1,700,000 (Medical Malpractice) Death From Undiagnosed Pulmonary Embolism (Supreme Court, State of New York, Westchester County, 2002)
• $1,400,000.00 (Medical Malpractice) Wrongful death of young woman due to failure to diagnose breast cancer. (Supreme Court, New York State, New York County 2002)
• $4,150,000 (Medical Malpractice) Undiagnosed malaria causing blindness and severe brain injury (Supreme Court, State of New York, New York County, and Superior Court, Montgomery County, State of Maryland, 1997)
• $6,700,000 (Work Site Injury, - Labor Law Violation) Quadriplegia following roofer’s fall from scaffold (Federal Court S.D.N.Y. 1994)

• Other Notable Cases:

• Lieber v. Vitelli, 270 A.D.2d 396 (2d Dep't 2000) (restoration of legal malpractice action which had been dismissed for prior attorney's failure to prosecute)
• Arpels v. Fallek (Supreme Court, State of New York, New York County) (1996) (settlement during trial) (pierced corporate veil against taxicab fleet)

• Contact Me:

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