$14.5 Million Verdict in Ohio Birth Malpractice Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on June 13th, 2014
An 11-year-old boy and his mother have been awarded $14.5 million in damages by an Ohio jury in a medical malpractice lawsuit that dates back to the boy's birth back in 2003. The boy, Alijah Jones, now 11, suffered a brain hemorrhage when his delivery was allegedly delayed by medical staff at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland on April 10, 2003, according to a story by The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer newspaper. His mother, Stephanie Stewart...
$2 Million Settlement to Family of Woman Killed By Prison Van
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on June 6th, 2014
Joyce R. Meeks had moved her family away from the mean streets of Chicago in 2000 to Lincoln, Neb., so they could live in a safer place. For more than a decade, she and her family enjoyed the quieter lifestyle in Lincoln. Thirteen years later, tragedy struck on June 25, 2013 as she was driving home after work and her her 2004 Nissan Quest minivan was struck by a state-owned Nebraska prison van that was...
Car Crash Victim Receives $1 Million Verdict for Serious Knee Injuries
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 30th, 2014
A Montgomery County woman has been awarded a $1 million jury verdict in connection with a car crash nine years ago that severely injured both of her legs. The crash, which occurred in Lehigh County in February 2005, caused serious knee injuries to Christy Carassai when the car she was riding in struck another vehicle that had turned in front of it, according to a May 20 report in The Legal Intelligencer. The verdict was...
$10.9 Million Settlement to Widow of Illinois Trooper Killed on Duty
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 16th, 2014
Trooper James Sauter was sitting in his Illinois State Police patrol car on the left-hand shoulder of Interstate 294 on March 28, 2013, when his vehicle was hit in the rear by a tractor-trailer whose driver allegedly fell asleep. The impact of the collision caused a fireball that killed the 28-year-old state trooper and devastated his family, according to a May 14 story in The Chicago Sun-Times. Sauter's widow has now reached a $10.9 million...
$2 Million Settlement to Family of Teen Critically Hurt in DUI Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 9th, 2014
Sergio Molina was laying in the bed of a pickup truck being driven by an intoxicated 16-year-old boy on the night of June 15, 2013, when the speeding truck slammed into a vehicle on the side of the road, causing a chain reaction crash that killed four people. Twelve people were also hurt in the crash in Fort Worth, Texas, that night, including Molina, who was thrown out of the pickup bed by the impact...
$2.9 Million Settlement to Fla.Woman Hurt in Road-Construction Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 18th, 2014
As she drove her car through road construction along Interstate 10 in Florida on Dec. 19, 2009, Melicent Sanders slowed quickly as a construction dump truck dropped its speed precariously in front of her. But even as she avoided a crash with the dump truck, a large van behind her didn’t stop in time, smashing into the rear of her car, causing serious injuries to Sanders. More than four years later, Sanders has received a...
Jury Awards $7.8 Million to Family in On-Track Death of Jockey
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 11th, 2014
The family of a 55-year-old professional jockey who died in an on-track training incident at the Parx Racing track in Bensalem in 2010 has been awarded $7.8 million in damages by a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury. The verdict in favor of the family of the late jockey, Mario Calderon of Croydon, Bucks County, was reported in an April 10 story in The Philadelphia Daily News. Calderon was killed in May 2010 as he was...
N.Y. Woman, Struck by Truck in 2008, Receives $22 Million Settlement
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 4th, 2014
As she was walking across an intersection in New York City in 2008, Brooklyn resident Shirley Miller, then 32, was struck by a Duane Reed drug store truck, causing massive injuries that left her with brain damage, speech impairments and blindness. The incident occurred on her birthday. Almost six years after that devastating day, Miller has received a $22 million settlement to bring her lawsuit against the company to a close, according to a Feb....
$1.1 Million Verdict for Amputation Victim in Cancer Med Mal Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on March 28th, 2014
After multiple and unsuccessful treatments by her doctor from 2007 to 2008 for a plantar ulcer on her foot, an elderly Philadelphia woman soon consulted with another doctor who diagnosed cancer which required partial amputation of her foot. She later took the original doctor to court, alleging that he failed to diagnose her condition in a timely manner and didn't perform a biopsy which would have revealed the cancerous growth in her foot. The victim,...