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...
$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,...
$1.1 Million Compensation to 69-Year-Old Woman Badly Injured by Fallen Tree
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on March 21st, 2014
As she walked across a parking lot at the Ridley Park Swim Club with her grandson on June 24, 2010, a 69-year-old Philadelphia woman was struck and seriously injured by a large tree that fell from an adjoining property. Almost four years after the debilitating injuries she suffered, the victim, Maryanne Dunlap, has been awarded $750,000 in damages by a Delaware County jury, as well as a previously announced $350,000 arbitration award from the owner...
Family Receives $3 Million in Damages in Topomax Birth Defect Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on March 14th, 2014
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $3 million in damages to the family of a toddler who was born with cleft lip and cleft palate after her mother took the drug, Topomax, during her pregnancy. The damage award against the makers of Topomax, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, which is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, was announced March 13 in a story in The Legal Intelligencer. The failure-to-warn lawsuit was filed in December 2011 in Philadelphia on behalf...
Medicinal Therapy for Low Testosterone in Men Has Serious Risks That Are Surfacing
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on March 7th, 2014
The advertisements for "low-T" or low testosterone levels in men are appearing every day in television, newspaper, magazine and radio ads, but the still-developing serious health risks of such therapy appear to be the dark side of this recent phenomenon. The problem is that while the creams and gels tout themselves as treatments for low testosterone levels in men, they also have been linked to escalating levels of heart attacks and strokes, according to a...