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Recent Results

We have obtained these litigation results in the past three years.

Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

• Settlement exceeding $1,000,000 on behalf of a widow, and her daughters, whose husband died in an industrial accident.

• Settlement of $540,000 on behalf of a man who suffered a severe back injury in a workplace accident

• Settlement of $300,000 on behalf of a client who suffered a severe neck injury requiring surgery.

• Jury verdict for $287,500 on behalf of a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting in a permanent loss of his sense of smell; insurer had previously offered $150,000.

• Settlement of $154,000 for three victims of a head-on auto collision.

• Settlement of $125,000 on behalf of a client who suffered aggravation of a neck injury, requiring surgery.

• Settlement of $115,000 medical negligence involving a medical facility.

• Settlement of $115,000 involving a neck injury caused by a tractor-trailer collision.

• Judgment for $100,000 after a bench trial on behalf of a victim of an assault and battery who suffered a severe concussion and memory loss.

• Settlement of $100,000 on behalf of a client who suffered a debilitating hip injury that required surgery as a result of a head-on auto collision.

• Settlement of $100,000 (policy limits) on behalf of an elderly client who suffered a broken leg and other injuries as a passenger in an automobile accident.

• Settlement of $100,000 (policy limits) on behalf of a client who suffered a head injury as the result of an all-terrain vehicle accident.

• Verdict of $88,000 on behalf of motorist who suffered a torn meniscus and fractured rib in a truck collision.

• Settlement for $80,000 on behalf of a bicyclist who suffered severe injuries, including a cracked hip.

• Jury verdict for $79,000 on behalf of an elderly motorist who suffered a fractured sternum, among other injuries, in a vehicle intersection accident; insurer had previously offered $27,500.

• Settlement of $65,000 on behalf of a client who sustained a herniated disc in the lumbar spine as a result of an automobile collision.

• Settlement of $60,000 on behalf of a person who sustained severe lacerations to the legs as the result of an improperly maintained rented house.

• Settlement of $50,000 on behalf of a pedestrian who suffered neck and back injuries in an automobile-pedestrian collision.

• Settlement of $40,000 on behalf of a motorist who suffered neck and back injuries in a rear-end collision.

• Settlement of $35,000 on behalf of a driver who suffered neck and back injuries ina  rear-end auto collision.

• Settlement of $29,000 on behalf of a passenger who suffered neck and back injuries in a rear-end collision.

• Settlement of $27,000 on behalf of a passenger who suffered neck and back injuries in a rear-end collision.

• Jury verdict for $11,500 on behalf of driver who suffered neck and back injuries in low-impact rear-end collision; insurer had previously offered $810 as a final settlement.

• Jury verdict for $36,600 on behalf of a driver who suffered neck injuries and headaches as a result of a rear-end collision; insurer had previously offered $25,000 as a final settlement.

Insurance and Employee Benefits (ERISA)

• Judgment for $600,496.44 after a bench trial against perpetrator of a fraudulent health plan reinsurance scheme on behalf of a self-funded employer. Court also awarded attorney’s fees.

• Full payment of $400,000+ of a life insurance policy that had been wrongfully denied, after litigating in federal court for over a year and a half.

• Full payment of $269,000 of a life insurance policy that had been wrongfully denied.

• Settlement of $29,000 for a client whose auto insurer failed to settle a personal injury claim, which resulted in a jury verdict that exceeded the insurer's policy limits.

• Forced a health plan to pay over $95,000 in medical bills, plus attorneys fees, after the plan had claimed that the client was ineligible for COBRA.

• Recovered $74,000 in life insurance benefits, plus attorney's fees, after the benefit plan administrator had twice denied the beneficiaries' claims.

• Recovered $116,000 against a major health insurer on behalf of a hospital which had been systematically underpaid on patient claims

• Convinced a mortgage disability insurer to pay the remainder of the clients' disability insurance policies (twice involving same mortgage insurer).

• Successfully appealed a disability insurer's denial of my client's long-term disability claim, netting the client over $1,600 per month for the next ten years.

• Obtained reversal of a health insurer's decision to deny coverage for a gall bladder surgery after the insurer determined it to be a pre-existing condition.

• After filing a federal ERISA lawsuit, obtained full payment for a wrongfully denied life insurance policy claim on behalf of a widow.

• Obtained full payment of an Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance policy in an amount of $18,000.

• Obtained full payment of an Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance policy in the amount of $100,000.

• Fully collected both the medical benefits and attorneys fees in a federal ERISA lawsuit after the employer simply failed to pay over $40,000 in employee medical claims under its self-insured health plan, after winning summary judgment.

• Settlement of $45,000 on a disputed employer-sponsored life insurance claim.

Other Civil Litigation

• Jury verdict for $389,000 in an eminent domain case on behalf of a property owner whose commercial real estate was partially taken by the state for a road-widening project.

• Judgment, after bench trial, returning real estate on behalf of a guardian for an elderly woman.

• Judgment, after bench trial, granting tract of property to landowner by virtue of adverse possession.

• Confidential settlement on behalf of an employee who had been discharged from employment, client-employee claimed that the employer had unlawfully discriminated.

• Summary judgment (dismissal) on behalf of a home inspector who had been sued by a disgruntled property owner.

• Defense judgment, after bench trial, on behalf of a landowner whose downhill neighbor sued claiming that the landowner's mud runoff damaged her property.