Judge Awards N.J. Woman $1.4 Million for Injuries Caused By Stage-Diving Performer at Rock Concert
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 28th, 2014
A Vorhees, N.J., woman has been awarded $1.4 million in damages by a U.S. District Court judge in Philadelphia for serious injuries that she suffered when she was struck by a stage-diving singer while attending a rock concert at the WXPN's World Café Live music venue on Feb. 23, 2010. The woman, Kimberly Myers, now 46, suffered a cracked skull and other injuries when Angelo "Dr. Madd Vibe" Moore, the lead singer of the band,...
9 Years After Serious Leg Injury, N.Y. Man Receives $9.1 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 21st, 2014
While heading to his job as a public safety dispatcher in Tonawanda, N.Y., in October 2004, Donald R. Schultz fell on some steps as he made his way to his workplace, breaking one of his ankles. The injury was followed by multiple complications and 12 surgeries, which eventually resulted in the amputation of his leg over several procedures. After filing a medical malpractice lawsuit in connection with his care, Schultz has now been ordered to...
Woman, Daughter Receive $9.3 Million Settlement after Car Crash Involving Man on Probation
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 7th, 2014
Cayla Wilson was 19 years old and five months pregnant when another driver, who was high on methamphetamines and on probation for previous crimes, smashed a Jeep Wrangler into her Buick as she drove through a Portland, Ore., intersection in April 2010. The crash was so devastating that Wilson suffered severe brain damage and has since been in a permanent vegetative state with limited brain activity, according to a Feb. 6 report by KGW News...
Family of Western Pa. Driver Killed by Tractor-Trailer Awarded $5.5M in Wrongful Death Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 31st, 2014
As he drove his Chevrolet Cobalt in Mahoning Township, north of Pittsburgh, on Aug. 18, 2008, 22-year-old Mark McConnell II was tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time. As he drove, a tractor-trailer parked on the side of the road pulled into his path without warning, causing a heavy collision that killed McConnell. Now, more than five years later, his family has been awarded $5.5 million in damages by a Lawrence County, Pa.,...
Chester County Family Awarded $32.8 Million Verdict for Daughter’s Birth Injury
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 24th, 2014
The family of a four-year-old Chester County girl has won a $32.8 million jury verdict against Phoenixville Hospital after the girl was born in 2009 with severe medical complications caused when two nurses didn't call for help quickly enough when the baby's heart rate dropped precipitously just before her birth. The lawsuit, filed by the girl's mother, Leslie Proffitt of North Coventry Township, Chester County, was filed on behalf of the child, Lillian Marie Ciechoski,...
$265,000 Settlement in California Medical Malpractice Case Shows the Tragedy of Arbitrary Mandated Settlement Limits
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 17th, 2014
In March of 2012, the family of a 10-year-old California girl took her to Kaiser Permanente's Baldwin Park Medical Center because she was suffering from a fever, vomiting and shortness of breath. A day later, after being examined and released by a doctor following a brief examination at the urgent care center, she died. Now, almost two years after the tragic death of the girl, Daniela Zelig, her family reached a miniscule $265,000 settlement with...
Truck Crash Victim’s Family Awarded $2.2 Million in Pennsylvania Wrongful Death Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 10th, 2014
As he drove his tractor-trailer on Interstate 78 in Lebanon County, Pa., early in the morning of Nov. 13, 2009, 36-year-old Eric Claxton's rig struck another tractor-trailer that was entering the highway from the side of the road in the darkness. The force of the collision caused both vehicles to catch fire, killing Claxton at the scene and leaving his passenger in a fight for life that ended a month later. Now Claxton's family will...
$3.4 Million Wrongful Death Settlement in 2012 Car Crash of Young Mother
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 3rd, 2014
As her 1995 Nissan Sentra broke down on southbound Interstate 664 in Chesapeake, Va., about 9 a.m. on June 14, 2012, 27-year-old Crystal A. Burgsteiner pulled the small car to the side of the highway and turned on its emergency flashers. While she waited in her car on the side of the road, a tractor-trailer behind her left its lane after its driver allegedly suffered an undisclosed medical emergency and plowed into the rear of...
Philadelphia Family Receives $42.9 Million Medical Malpractice Award for Premature Birth
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 27th, 2013
A jury has awarded a Philadelphia family a $42.9 million medical malpractice award after their son was born prematurely and suffered from a multitude of complications after his birth in July 2007. The family sued the doctors and hospital where their son was born, alleging that the "complications suffered by their child due to extreme premature birth were the result of negligence" on the part of the doctors who treated the mother and the baby,...