| Settlements/Verdicts |
October 2009
Crash victim awarded $2.2M for bedsores from hospital stay
A jury has ordered Westchester Medical Center to pay $2.2 million to a quadriplegic man who got horrific bed sores. Eric Trainor, a 30-year-old former construction worker from Putnam County, was awarded the amount last month for pain and suffering, following a civil trial in state Supreme Court in White Plains.
His lawyer, Raymond Keegan, said the hospital's failure to turn Trainor every two hours during his six-week stay - and the failure of Dr. Francis Baccay to ensure that care - caused Trainor to develop "stage four" bedsores on his buttocks and lower back. "They were all the way down to the bone," Keegan said. "They were huge."
Kara Bennorth, a hospital spokeswoman, said in a statement that "Westchester Medical Center does not comment on litigation."
Trainor, who now lives in Springfield, Mass., with his parents, suffered for years from the bedsores, which had to be surgically closed.The sores delayed his physical rehabilitation so much that he lost the chance to build upper-body strength, Keegan said.
The jury granted the award following a seven-day trial.
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| Other Verdicts & Settlements |
• Automobile
Accident: 19
yr. brain injured and paraplegic $46.8
Million settlement
Rockland County Supreme Court (largest verdict in NYS outside NYC)
• Medical malpractice: Womblind $1.2 Million verdict
U.S. District Court
• Product
Liability: Wrongful death from drowning $1.2
Million verdict
Westchester County Supreme Court
• Premises
Liability: Fall causing blowout fractures to lower back $2.2
Million/verdict
U.S. District Court
• Medical
Malpractice: Brain injury to mother of three $2.1
Million settlement
Suffolk Couty Supreme Court
• Automobile
Accident: Multiple fractures to hip and limbs $1
Million settlement
U.S. District Court
• Automobile
Accident: Herniated disc complicated by preexisting
condition $1
Million settlement
U.S. District
Court
• Medical
Malpractice: Cardiac patient not properly monitored resulting
in brain injury $1.5 Million settlement
Westchester County Supreme Court
• Automobile
Accident: Injury to unborn twins resulting in loss of
blood to mother $3.2
Million settlement
Westchester Country Supreme Court
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| Backyard
Trampoline Case Settles in U.S. District Court |
Plaintiff,
Joseph C. Anderson settled his case today for 6.9 million
dollars which includes an annuity settlement which will
pay out 45 million dollars over his lifetime.
The settlement was put on the record before Judge Smith on February
17, 2000, with the plaintiff physically present.
Mr.
Anderson, age 24 at the time of the accident on May 20, 1998,
fell from a circular backyard trampoline manufactured by the
Hedstrom Company of Bedford, Pennsylvania. Mr. Anderson was represented
by the firm of Raymond J. Keegan & Assoc., LLP, White Plains,
New York.
His
attorney, Raymond J. Keegan, reached this settlement which will
be paid out over the lifetime of Mr. Anderson and which will
take care of all his medical and financial needs. Mr. Keegan
stated that the case contended that backyard trampolines are
inherently dangerous and should not be utilized in the home or
recreational environment.
He
contended that there was a safety cage which would have prevented
Mr. Anderson’s fall from the trampoline, and in addition, the
trampoline should have had a center marking and that the warnings
on the product were otherwise inadequate. Joseph Anderson as
a result of his fall from the trampoline was rendered a quadriplegic.
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