We have experience in a wide variety of personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases. Our experience covers a wide range of injuries and ailments. Below are a representative listing of some of the bigger personal injury cases we have handled, some for the plaintiff(s) and some for the defendant(s).
| Motor Vehicle Accidents | Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death | Miscellaneous |
Motor Vehicle, Truck, and Motorcycle Accidents
- father and daughter whose car was struck by a tractor trailer on Interstate I-95, and the father sustained a traumatic closed-head brain injury
- a teenage boy riding in the open bed of a pickup truck with friends and was injured when the truck flipped over and landed on top of him. The boy survived, but suffered serious and permanent injuries.
- rental car involved in an accident, but it was being driven by an unauthorized driver
- motorcyclist was rear-ended by a jeep while slowing for an open hazard in the roadway
- a woman in a van was rear-ended by a commercial vehicle while slowing down at a tollbooth
Medical Malpractice
- case involving allegations of a delayed diagnosis of breast cancer; plaintiff alleged that mammography showed presence of cancer 5 years before it was diagnosed. Once it was diagnosed, plaintiff's prognosis was very poor, as the cancer had already spread
- case involving allegations that the hospital negligently failed to stop premature labor of twin fetuses. The children suffer from significant developmental delays as a result of damage caused by their prematurity
- case involving a patient with complex and permanent disease process, who underwent surgery at defendant hospital for a symptom of that disease. The patient alleged that the hospital was negligent during the surgery, and in the subsequent care, and as a result suffered permanent sensory and neurological deficit
- case involving a severed Ulnar nerve during an operation to remove a ganglion cyst growing in the patient's wrist
- a nursing home case, involving a patient who suffered a broken hip during a bed-to-chair transfer by nursing assistants
- case involving allegations that the hospital negligently handled the respiratory arrest of a minor patient, who suffered catastrophic brain injury as a result of oxygen deprivation
Wrongful Death
- woman crossing a street in a cross-walk was struck by a garbage truck and dragged for several hundred feet, suffering extensive and fatal injuries
- case involving a young, apparently healthy woman who went to one ER with cold-like symptoms. After spending several hours there with no significant improvement, she was transferred to another hospital. The patient coded approximately 2 hours after transfer, and died
- case involving a patient who was transported to the ER after an auto accident. The plaintiff alleged that the hospital mis-managed the patient's care, and as a result the patient died
- case involving an allegation that the hospital negligently prescribed a pain medication to a patient with a certain complex of allergies and asthma, and the patient experienced an allergic reaction and died
- a case involving a pregnant young woman who presented to a community hospital complaining of respiratory distress. The plaintiff alleged that the hospital negligently failed to diagnose and treat the patient's condition, and the condition worsened. The patient was ultimately transferred to a larger hospital, where she promptly entered respiratory and cardiac arrest, and died
- case involving a patient who was diagnosed with a peculiar heart defect, correctable by surgery. The defendant hospital delayed the procedure for approximately 12 hours, at the request of the surgeon. In the final hour before surgery, the heart defect failed, and the patient died
- a police officer committed suicide with his service revolver while undergoing out-patient treatment at a psychiatric clinic
- a woman committed suicide while an in-patient in the psychiatric ward of a major teaching hospital
Miscellaneous
- several escalator incidents, involving articles of clothing getting caught in the teeth of the escalator steps and leading to injuries
- several slip-and-fall injuries due to inclement weather, plumbing malfunctions, mopped or waxed floors, or foreign objects on the floor / ground
- a customer was injured when she fell into an unguarded pit in the shop floor at a quick-lube facility
- fires were caused by a model of lamp which overheated and did not contain safety mechanisms to prevent flammable objects from coming into contact with the hot bulb
- successfully defended a retail merchant from false arrest and wrongful detention claims brought by a suspected shoplifter
- homeowners or tenants suffering injuries as the result of exposure to toxic mold or chemicals used to treat and clean toxic mold
- tenant injured as a result of chemical exposure to off-gassing byproducts from new carpeting
