MAJOR VERDICTS
$198 Million
This was a record-breaking verdict for passengers who were injured when their rental car collided with a disabled tractor trailer.
$104 Million
NYC was held liable when two brothers suffered severe spinal cord injuries while diving into shallow shallow water from a pier.
$76 Million
NYC was held liable for false arrest and use of excessive force.
$33 Million
MYC held liable when a child falls from a park sculpture and suffers a serious spinal cord injury.
$32 Million
Medical malpractice award for a brain-damaged infant
POLICE MISCONDUCT
$8.75 Million
In a well-publicized case, Abner Louima was assaulted, brutalized and forcibly sodomized by NYC police officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub. The verdict was the largest police brutality settlement in NYC history.
$2.25 Million
Security Guard Patrick Dorismond was killed by undercover NYC police officers. The suit filed by the family was settled in their favor.
$2.5 Million
Tarika Wilson was killed and her 14-month old infant child was wounded by police. The settlement in the wrongful death suit in the family’s favor was agreed upon.
$2.25 Million
Jerome Murdough, a Rikers Island prisoner, was improperly supervised and allowed to bake to death in his jail cell. The family’s wrongful death claim resulted in the award.
$2.3 Million
A police officer falsely arrested James McLaughlin, after using excessive force and violating his rights. A jury agreed.
$1.5 Million
An NYC police offer, driving drunk, killed three members of the Pena family who were crossing the street in Sunset Park Brooklyn. A civil lawsuit brought by the surviving family members resulted in a settlement in their favor.
$500,000
This award was given to a Vikki Cash, who was raped by a deputy sheriff while she was being detained in Erie County, NY.
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
$8.9 Million
A confidential settlement on behalf of an African-American man who was discriminated against by an investment bank.
$4.2 Million
A confidential settlement for a group of African-American food service workers who endured racially offensive slurs and other discrimination in their workplace.
$3.8 Million
A confidential settlement for two African-American young men who were discriminated against by a major department stores for “shopping while black”.
$3.5 Million
Confidential settlement for three African-Americans who were subjected to discrimination and retaliation due to their race and national origin by an investment bank.
MUNICIPAL LIABILITY
$100 Million
In Brown vs. NYC, two brothers dove off an improperly marked pier, resulting in broken necks and being left quadriplegic.
$80 Million
In Diaz vs. NYC, another person dove off the same pier broke his neck and was left a quadriplegic.
$25 Million
In Esposito vs. NYC, the victim lost both legs as a result of a Staten Island Ferry crash.
$33 Million
In Starzewski vs. NYC, the accident victim has a serious accident as a result of faulty highway design.
GENERAL LIABILITY
CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS
$21 Million
Victim injured when a pipe dropped on him at a construction site.
$6.0 Million
A worker suffered a fall while caulking windows at a N.Y.C. museum.
$5.0 Million
A worker is killed wile testing the Air Train (Train To The Plane) in Queens, N.Y.
$4.0 Million
A 35 year old worker dies in a fall while working on the construction of a new building.
SPINAL CORD INJURIES
$16 Million
23 year old man falls from a rock-climbing wall after the safety belt breaks.
$14 Million
A 28 year old worker is injured when his platform collapses while he was laying cable.
$11 Million
A 65 year old woman is injured when she falls through a gap between LIRR train and the platform.
BRAIN INJURIES
$8 Million
A 35 year old worker is injured when a steel plate falls on his head while he is renovating an elevator.
$6 Million
A 15 year old student falls down an elevator shaft that has defective doors.
$5.75 Milion
A car passenger is injured when a NYC Ambulance runs a red light.
$4.1 Million
For failure to monitor an infant’s oxygen levels, resulting in Cerebral Palsey, Spastic Quadriparesis and Mental Retardation.
$3.7 Million
In an infant, due to failure to perform a timely cesarean section in response to fetal distress.
$3.2 Million
A boy suffers brain injury after being poisoned ingesting lead paint.
$3.0 Million
A 28 year old woman suffers Carbon Monoxide Poisoning when her boiler malfunctions.
$1.2 Million
A 74 year old woman suffers Carbon Monoxide Poisoning when her boiler also malfunctions.
BODILY INJURY
$1.0 Million
A 70 year old woman suffers multiple fractures when she is struck by a delivery van.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
WRONGFUL DEATH
$4.07 Million
Won by the family of a 53 year old patient whose doctor failed to diagnose and treat a perforated bowel.
$3.5 Million
A 65 year old woman is killed when she is struck by an MTA bus.
$2.9 Million
Won by the family of a 42 year old man whose medical team failed to treat pneumonia, resulting in respiratory arrest.
$2.4 Million
For failure to diagnose and treat a benign brain tumor in a 29 year old man.
$2.1 Million
For failure to diagnose and treat prostate cancer.
SURGICAL NEGLIGENCE
$5.35 Million
For a 13 year old child who suffered paralysis after the spinal cord was severed during scoliosis repair surgery.
$2.8 Million
For a perforated colon following a cesarean section, which resulted in an abdominal abscess and severe peritonitis.
$1.55 Million
For a pancreatic injury, resulting from the failure to properly monitor triglyceride levels during invitro fertilization therapy.
$1.3 Million
For failure to diagnose vascular insufficiency, which resulted in the amputation of the patient’s right leg below the knee.
$1.0 Million
For failure to remove a catheter tip, resulting in a fracture at the base of the scull.
