Medical Malpractice Verdicts

  • $4,850,000 recovery for a Kings County infant injured at birth as a result of fetal distress.
  • $4,800,000 verdict for a Brooklyn woman whose doctor treated her cancer with alternative medicine including enzymes and coffee enemas.
  • $4,750,000 verdict for a baby brain damaged because of fetal distress and failure to properly resuscitate.
  • $4,750,000 settlement in an obstetrical malpractice case in which a baby's brain damage was due both to the obstetrician's failure to diagnose fetal distress during labor and to the pediatricians' failure to resuscitate the newborn baby properly.
  • $4,500,000 settlement in a legal malpractice case involving a woman whose lawyer failed to file the proper paperwork with the court when she had a claim against her doctor for failing to properly treat her brain tumor.
  • $4,450,000 settlement in a wrongful death case for a 45-year-old police officer who was improperly discharged from a Rockland County hospital without adequate anticoagulation.
  • $4,250,000 settlement in a New York medical malpractice case on behalf of a Queens man who sustained brain damage due to medical malpractice committed by an anesthesiologist while he was undergoing surgery for sleep apnea.
  • $4,000,000 recovery in a medical malpractice for the failure to diagnose a an epidural hematoma causing brain damage.
  • $4,000,000 verdict for a man who was negligently discharged from a medical center when he was suffering from a psychotic episode. He was struck by a train and suffered the loss of both legs.
  • $4,000,000 recovery for a Kings County man who was admitted to the emergency room after a bar fight and had sustained an undiagnosed subdural hematoma.
  • $3,900,000 verdict for a newborn rendered brain damaged due to excessive drug (Fentanyl) administration following surgery for intestinal obstruction (meconium ileus) causing respiratory compromise and failure to timely resuscitate.
  • $3,375,000 Settlement in New York Medical Malpractice Case For Wrongful Death of a 46 year old husband and father of two children in which the patient died on the operating table during the performance of back surgery.
  • $3,500,000 settlement on behalf of a man injured as a result of improper administration of an anesthetic .
  • $3,450,000 jury verdict for a man who suffered significant muscle and nerve damage to his forearm after an orthopedic surgeon lacerated the brachial artery during a routine bicep surgery. The injury was not immediately recognized and resulted in compartment syndrom of his arm.
  • $3,000,000 recovery in a medical malpractice for an 18 year old girl who lost her leg as a result of a physician's malpractice in failing to diagnose a pseudoaneurism of the popliteal artery following an ACL repair. This was the full amount of insurance coverage.
  • $3,500,000 wrongful death settlement for a 78-year-old woman prescribed a contraindicated medication and dosage.
  • $3,000,000 settlement (insurance policy limits) for a woman who lost her leg as a result of improperly performed arthroscopic surgery of her knee.
  • $3,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case for a child who suffered Erb's Palsy following a negligent delivery by his mother's obstetrician.
  • $3,000,000 settlement for a brain damaged baby due to obstetrical malpractice. This was the total available proceeds from the municipality.
  • $3,000,000 settlement for the estate of a woman who died during childbirth as a result of the physician's failure to diagnose internal bleeding.
  • $2,750,000 settlement in a New York medical malpractice action on behalf of an elderly Queens woman whose doctors failed to properly provide anticoagulation therapy following a hip surgery which resulted in an ischemic stroke leaving her partially paralyzed and unable to speak.
  • $2,700,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case claiming a failure to administer anti-coagulation medication to a 78 year old woman following surgery resulting in a stroke.
  • $2,500,000 verdict for a woman who suffered a perforation of her dudodenum during an Upper Endoscopy performed in Queens, NYC (see more here).
  • $2,500,000 verdict in a Rockland County medical malpractice case in which a gynecologist transected a 68 year old woman's ureter resulting in the loss of a kidney.
  • $2,450,000 settlement in a medical malpractice for the family of a Westchester County man who died as a result of a medical group's malpractice in failing to timely diagnosis and treat his heart condition which led to a fatal heart attack.
  • $2,400,000 recovery on behalf of the widow of an unemployed 39 year old man who died after a Uvuloplasty when the nurse failed to follow the doctors instructions to properly monitor the patients oxygen saturation. The nurse claimed that the doctor's orders were unclear.
  • $2,300,000 settlement on behalf of a woman whose doctors failed to timely diagnose her breast cancer.
  • $2,250,000 settlement in an Erie County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to timely diagnose and treat acute gastrointestinal bleeding in a 60 year old man.
  • $2,250,000 settlement in a legal malpractice case for a man who hired a law firm to represent him in an action against his doctor for losing a kidney. The firm was negligent in their representation of their client and as a result of the lawyer's oversight, the medical malpractice case was dismissed.
  • $2,200,000 settlement for a man whose physician caused a one day delay in diagnosing a brain tumor.
  • $2,175,000 recovery on behalf of a man whose wife died because her doctors failed to diagnose her benign meningioma.
  • $2,175,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which it was claimed that there was a failure to diagnose a meningioma.
  • $2,125,000 verdict for the estate of a Kings County man who died of complications because of a dental procedure.
  • $2,150,000 settlement in Nassau County for a prostate cancer patient that developed a fistula after a radical prostatectomy.
  • 2,100,000 settlement for a who was injured during a robotic surgery for prostate cancer.
  • $2,500,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case for a woman whose physician failed to timely diagnose bladder cancer.
  • $2,000,000 settlement on behalf of a young man whose wife died due to negligent anesthesia care during a routine D & C.
  • $2,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case for a man who underwent unnecessary prostate cancer surgery.
  • $2,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case involving the failure to diagnose breast cancer .
  • $1,950,000 settlement for a man in a medical malpractice case stemming from a Mt. Sinai doctor's failure to diagnose bladder cancer.
  • $1,900,000 settlement in a Richmond County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to diagnose preeclampsia in a woman who suffered from cerebral bleeding a few days after giving birth.
  • $1,850,000 recovery in a New York medical malpractice case for the death of a single man for failure to diagnose malfunction of a ventricular peritoneal shunt.
  • $1,800,000 verdict in a medical malpractice case for a young boy who suffered an Erb's Palsy due to the doctor's negligence during delivery.
  • $1,750,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which doctors failure to diagnose colon cancer in a 67 year old man.
  • $1,750,000 settlement in a medical/dental malpractice case involving failure to prevent bacterial endocarditis.
  • $1,750,000 verdict in a medical malpractice case for a woman injured by a doctor's negligent placement of an aortobifemoral bypass graft causing injury to her bowel.
  • $1,700,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which am ophthalmologist failed to timely diagnose and treat a post-cataract surgery infection resulting in loss of vision in an eye.
  • $1,650,000 for a failure to diagnose influenza case in which our client developed life threatening Pneumonia and stayed at the hospital for nine weeks including an extensive stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The case study can be found at the bottom of our Flu Misdiagnosis page.
  • $1,600,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case involving the failure to take an adequate biopsy of a patient's ulcer and thereby failed to diagnose gastric cancer .
  • $1,600,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which a gynecologist failed to perform a prophylactic oophorectomy on a woman who developed ovarian cancer and who had suffered breast cancer and had a positive family history of ovarian cancer.
  • $1,600,000 recovery for a New York County 74-year-old woman whose lung cancer was undiagnosed but appeared in a routine chest x-ray.
  • $1,600,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case settlement for a child who suffered Erb's Palsy following negligent delivery by his mother's obstetrician.
  • $1,600,000 verdict for a young man with a severe congenital hearing loss whose doctors committed malpractice resulting in the loss of his remaining hearing.
  • $1,575,000 verdict on behalf of a woman whose doctors failed to make a timely diagnosis of her breast cancer .
  • $1,450,000 for a woman whose doctors were negligent in failing to diagnose her breast cancer .
  • $1,450,000 settlement in an Ulster County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to timely diagnose a woman's breast cancer.
  • $1,450,000 settlement in a Dutchess County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to timely diagnose breast cancer .
  • $1,270,000 unanimous jury verdict in Brooklyn for a  woman whose spleen was torn from her colon during a routine, screening colonoscopy. Read more about this case here
  • $1,200,000 recovery on behalf of a middle aged man who suffered a bowel perforation during a colon resection at a major Manhattan hospital and required further surgery and a colostomy for a period of time.
  • $1,000,000 recovery in a New York medical malpractice case for failure to diagnose Crohn's Disease.
  • $1,000,000 settlement on behalf of a young boy whose doctors failed to diagnose an osteomyelitis infection of his hip.
  • $1,000,000 settlement on behalf of a man whose doctors failed to diagnose prostate cancer .
  • $1,000,000 settlement for a man who developed severe bed sores due to nursing home malpractice .
  • $1,000,000 settlement (insurance policy limits) on behalf of a woman whose husband died because his doctor failed to timely diagnose lung cancer .
  • $1,000,000 settlement (insurance policy limits) on behalf of a man whose doctors failed to diagnose colon cancer.
  • $1,350,000 verdict for a man who suffered loss of vision in one eye and decreased vision in the other eye as a result of his doctor's failure to treat proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
  • $1,000,000 (insurance policy limits) settlement for a woman whose doctors failed to properly reduce her fractured ankle.
  • $1,000,000 settlement in a Broome County medical malpractice case involving the failure to timely diagnose melanoma.
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"August 2020, my mother was in a horrific car accident. I contacted Gair Gair Conason to handle my mother's case. Everyone at the firm who helped us with the case did such a fantastic job with being so efficient. We could not have been more satisfied with the services we received." [Extract] K.C.
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