VERDICTS

Recent Verdicts / Settlements for Personal Injury Victims in New York

 

Personal Injury Verdicts

  • $10,581,576 in guaranteed lifetime payment secured for an eleven-year-old girl from the Caribbean who was seriously injured after being struck by a van while crossing the street. The client sustained a fracture of the left wrist and underwent surgery to her knee and lower back.
  • $6 Million secured for a Brooklyn man who sustained serious injuries while a passenger on a New York City Transit Authority when the bus was in an accident with a tractor trailer truck. The client sustained a separated left shoulder and torn ligaments as well as spinal injuries for which he underwent several surgeries.
  • $4.5 Million for family of ‘undocumented’ Mexican laborer fatally injured at construction site.
  • $3.9 Million jury verdict secured for a Bangladeshi pedestrian who sustained serious injuries after being struck by a falling stop sign which was knocked over by a New York City Transit Authority vehicle as it was backing up.
  • $2 Million secured for a doctor who died in a motor vehicle accident which resulted from a defectively designed and constructed highway in the New York City metropolitan area.
  • $1.9 Million verdict for a driver of a rear-ended motor vehicle who sustained herniated discs in an automobile accident which resulted in the need for spinal surgery.
  • $1.5 Million jury verdict in favor of a husband and wife who sustained soft tissue neck and back injuries in a car accident.
  • $736,000 verdict in favor of a woman who tripped and fell as she was attempting to enter an elevator in her own building.
  • $675,000 recovered for a Latin-American porter who was injured by malfunctioning elevator doors at a school in Westchester County. The porter’s knee was injured when he was struck by closing elevator doors.
  • $575,000 recovered in a settlement on behalf of a 1.5 year old girl who caught her finger in a folding chair while being supervised by her parents. The action was grounded in product liability and the defendants were the manufacturers and distributors of the chair.
  • $500,000 award in favor of a 7 year old boy who was attacked by his friend’s Pitbull.
  • $435,000 recovered in a settlement for a middle age woman who slipped and fell on a lettuce leaf on the floor of a grocery store. She sustained knee injuries.
  • $350,000 for unemployed White Plains Latina woman hit by car.
  • $300,000 recovered for a middle-aged woman who tripped and fell over cracked NYC sidewalk.
  • $225,000 recovered for a hair dresser who cut her hand as she was opening a glass vial. The vial that broke in her hand causing the injuries was proved to be defective in design.
  • $200,000 recovered for a man who cut his finger on a table saw while cutting frame wood at his brother’s house.
  • Undisclosed amount recovered on behalf of a Puerto Rican man who slipped and fell on snow and ice fracturing his leg in two places.
case-results

$10,581,576

For 11-year-old girl struck by van

$6,000,000

For passenger injured in NYC bus accident

$4,450,000

Recovered for undocumented construction worker

$3,900,000

For father struck by falling stop sign

$3,000,000

For driver injured in bus accident

$3,000,000

Supermarket slip and fall

$2,000,000

For driver who lost control of vehicle as a result of dangerous roadway

$1,900,000

For passenger injured in two-car collision

$1,500,000

For student who tripped and fell in fire drill

*past results do not guarantee future outcomes.

Omrani and Taub case results