| Settlements/Verdicts |
• $
6,250,000: Medical Malpractice—Brain Injury to mother
of three (Westchester Cty)
• $ 1,550,000: Medical Malpractice—Epidural-Spinal
Cord Injury (Stamford Superior Court)
• $ 900,000: Medical Malpractice—Severed spinal
cord during surgery resulting in death (Westchester Cty)
• $ 700,000: Motor Vehicle Accident—Compression
fracture L2, ORIF, Scar (Rockland Cty)
• $ 600,000: Motor Vehicle Accident, Wrongful Death—27
y/o single woman, no children (Westchester Cty)
• $490,000:
Medical Malpractice—Unnecessary surgeries resulting in damaged
kidney (Westchester Cty)
|
| 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: Woman
partially blind $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
• Premises
Liability: Fall on ice caused low back injury to truck
driver resulting in total disability from work and chronic pain $1.8
Million verdict
U.S. District
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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