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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

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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