$44M Jury Verdict to Brain-Injured Woman in Medical Malpractice Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 13th, 2016
A Philadelphia woman who experienced an adverse reaction to blood anti-coagulation medication and was left with a serious brain injury as a result has been awarded a $44 million verdict by a Court of Commons Pleas jury in Philadelphia. The woman, Andrea Tate, had gone to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in September 2011 to remove a mass in her head known as a meningioma, according to a May 6 story by The...
How Texting a Driver Could Make You Liable for a Crash – Or Not?
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 6th, 2016
A driver is operating a motor vehicle and gets into a crash with another car just after receiving a text from an acquaintance on their mobile phone. In that case, can the driver sue the person who sent the text, blaming them for causing them to become distracted and crash? That's the issue in a recent lawsuit in Lawrence County in Pennsylvania, where a judge has allowed legal claims of negligence and wrongful death to...
$1.2M Settlement to Injured Worker in Construction Fall
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 30th, 2016
A construction worker who fell while walking on a 17-foot-high wall at a worksite and broke both ankles and feet in 2012 has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the contractor and general contractor in charge of the project. The worker, David Markowski, who was 28 years old at the time of his fall, was working at a construction site on Misericordia University's campus in Luzerne County when he fell from the wall on Jan....
$20M Medical Malpractice Settlement to Family of Brain-Damaged Child
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 29th, 2016
The family of a three-year-old San Diego, Calif., girl who was the victim of a nursing error in a hospital four days after she was born in January 2013 will receive a $20 million settlement to pay for her continuing medical care. The girl, whose name was withheld to protect her identity, was born five weeks prematurely and was placed in a newborn intensive care unit (ICU), where four days later her mother found her...
$5.5M Settlement to Child Severely Injured in Fall from Window
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 15th, 2016
The family of a 7-year-old child who suffered brain damage after falling from a third-story window in an apartment in a subsidized housing development in North Philadelphia has reached a $5.5 million settlement with the developers, contractors and architects of the development. The settlement will be received by the family of Rahniya Neal, who was three-years-old in January 2012, when she was playing on the top bunk of a bed with a cousin and fell...
$14.9M Verdict to Woman Severely Injured by Driver’s Seat in Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 8th, 2016
A 43-year-old California woman has been awarded a $14.9 million jury verdict after she was severely hurt by the driver's seat back in her car when she was rear-ended by a pickup truck in a 2012 crash. Marcia Gray was driving her 1995 Mazda Protégé automobile on westbound Interstate 580 near the Interstate 980 interchange on April 30, 2012, when she stopped suddenly to avoid a crash ahead of her and was hit from behind...
$8.5M Settlement in 2010 U.S. Army Helicopter Training Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 1st, 2016
The family of a 38-year-old U.S. Army civilian flight instructor who died in a 2010 helicopter crash during a training flight in Alabama will receive $8.5 million in compensation following the settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed by his wife. The instructor, Jeremy Clark of Enterprise, Ala., was killed on Dec. 14, 2010 when the OH-58 Kiowa helicopter he was operating with a student pilot crashed at Fort Rucker during an Army...
$5.55M Verdict to Pa. Man in U.S. Steel Discrimination Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on March 29th, 2016
A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man who was forced to leave his job after working 30 years at U.S. Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh as a mechanic has won a $5.55 million discrimination award from a U.S. District Court jury. Albert Gucker, 61, won the award when the jury determined that the company unfairly acted on Dec. 28, 2011 to stop accommodating his existing physical disabilities, which included restrictions on lifting and climbing, according to a March 11...
$6M Settlement for 5 People Injured in Ohio Greyhound Bus Rollover
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on March 18th, 2016
Five people who suffered serious neck and back injuries when the Greyhound bus they were riding in veered off an Ohio Interstate highway in 2013 have received a $6 million settlement in the case. The driver of the bus had slumped over the steering wheel of the bus as it traveled down Interstate 75 in Liberty Township near Cincinnati on Sept. 14, 2013, causing the bus to careen out of control off the road before...