Nov 8, 2017 | Featured Insights
Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. (SPBMC) won a stunning $26 million medical malpractice jury verdict last week in Kings County Supreme Court on behalf of its client, a seven-year-old girl who was born deaf due to a hospital’s negligence.
Jim Wilkens, of counsel to SPBMC, represented the plaintiff during the one-month trial. The jury awarded the substantial amount to the girl for her for past and future pain and suffering and medical expenses stemming from her deafness and other injuries, including life-long vocal cord paralysis.
Nov 8, 2017 | Featured Insights
A team of Lewis Brisbois attorneys were able to prove that Dexter Hysol Aerospace LLC, a staffing services company, was not at fault for the death of a former employee. Managing partner Scott Masterson, partner Florence McClain, and associate Ashley Waller convinced a Los Angeles County jury that Velma Searcy, an electrical technician from 1982 to 1987, did not contract malignant mesothelioma as the result of occupational asbestos exposure.
The plaintiffs, the four children of Velma Searcy, filed suit against Dexter Hysol and numerous others for wrongful death, negligence, strict products liability, and punitive damages. Dexter Hysol was the only defendant remaining at the time of trial.
Nov 8, 2017 | Featured Insights
A major premises liability and injury precedent was set in Seattle, Washington on Nov. 3, when a jury returned a verdict of $131,000,375 for the plaintiff, a quadriplegic. Nick Rowley, partner at Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley and founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice represented Melissa Blaylock, who was rendered a quadriplegic due injuries sustained while a passenger in a car operated by a drunk driver.
Blaylock, a 39-year-old mother of four, was a passenger in her own car on May 3, 2014 and had a .20 blood alcohol level when leaving a bar with the driver, her estranged husband Bruce Greene, who had a blood alcohol level of .24. After driving only two miles after leaving a restaurant, they were involved in a horrific accident…
Nov 2, 2017 | Featured Insights
Partners from Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf secured one of the largest wrongful death verdicts in Queens on Oct. 30. The firm won $41.5 million for the family of Steve Frosch, a New York City sanitation worker who died on... 
Nov 2, 2017 | Featured Insights
Ratzan Law Group with assistance from Lincoln Connolly recently won a substantial jury verdict on behalf of the family of a man killed by a negligent driver acting on behalf of a construction company in Florida. Stuart N. Ratzan, lead trial counsel and shareholder of...