Our client, a 28-year-old female accountant, sustained a brain injury when she was struck while crossing in a crosswalk. The driver claimed that she ran out between parked cars. Our client did not recall the accident, but remembered standing on the corner waiting for the walk light. She struck her head on the ground and was later diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). She had recently been hired to work at a large accounting firm, and tried for two years to work, but was unable to do so due to concentration and memory problems. She was later diagnosed with traumatically induced epilepsy and is on social security disability. The jury found the van driver and his employer responsible and awarded a total of $7.4 million for past and future pain and suffering and economic losses.
Our client, a newborn, was born neurologically damaged at birth. The child's mother came to the hospital complaining of not feeling the baby and bleeding. Doctors at the hospital placed her on a monitor but failed to detect any abnormalities with the infant. The child was born 12 days later and at birth could not breathe. Tests were performed which revealed that the child had suffered a brain bleed while in utero. The child was transferred to New York Hospital for further treatment. Our client, now 7-years-old, cannot walk or talk and has to be fed through a tube. The child will receive $29 million from the settlement over the course of her life.
Our client, a 38-year-old high school guidance counselor, sustained brain injury (TBI) after being struck in the head by a door. The client walked through the left door of a pair of swinging doors while walking downstairs during a fire alarm. To get downstairs, he was required to walk in front of the right door, which was pushed by a student and struck our client in the head. Over several months, he lost his balance, developed the inability to speak properly, and became hypersensitive to noises. He has been disabled since the accident and now receives social security disability. The jury found that the Board of Education was responsible for maintaining a dangerous and defective door and awarded a total of $6 million compensation.
Our client suffered a stroke and was left unattended for six hours in a hospital emergency room hallway. The ER doctor ordered a CAT scan, but hospital employees said that the CAT scanner was not operating properly. The patient was finally transferred to another hospital, where the stroke was diagnosed and an operation was performed to attempt to remove a blood clot from his brain. However, due to the delay in treatment, our client's condition deteriorated and he died after living six months in a nursing home. Our client had worked as a dental technician and earned approximately $25,000 annually. He had lived with and helped to support his 80-year-old father.
An infant and her family moved into an apartment where paint chips started to fall off the walls. The infant plaintiff ingested the paint chips causing the lead to go to the child's brain. The child is in special education with reading and math difficulties.
Our client suffered fractured facial bones and traumatic brain injury when he fell from scaffolding on a movie set. Our client was unable to return to work as an artist in charge of major movie sets. The insurance company offered $300,000 to settle the case as the jury was deliberating, which we declined. The jury awarded $3.65 million.
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