As 2017 Closes, Get Your Legal Life Organized for 2018
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 15th, 2017
The end of the year and the approach of the December holidays is a perfect time to review your personal legal matters, so you can start the new year right. It's a great time to look things over with your attorney, from making any needed changes to your will and estate, to reviewing insurance coverages, considering additional charitable gifts for tax purposes and double-checking your credit reports for accuracy. In this blog post, Saul Langsam,...
$17M Settlement for Worker Paralyzed in Construction Site Incident
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 3rd, 2017
A former masonry company truck driver who was severely injured as he was making a delivery at a N.J. construction site in 2015 has reached a $17 million settlement with the manufacturer, the owner and the seller of a boom lift which broke suddenly and caused his injuries. Brian Smith, who was 42 at the time of the incident, was hurt in January 2015 as he was delivering a load of concrete blocks to a...
$6.6M Verdict to Injured Chicago Commuter Train Crash Victim
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 12th, 2017
A 37-year-old Chicago woman was awarded $6.65 million in damages by a Cook County, Ill., jury after she was seriously injured as a passenger in a 2014 crash of a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) commuter train. The victim, Yolanda Montes, was one of more than 30 train passengers who were hurt when the CTA Blue Line train she was riding on at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport derailed, crashed through a barrier and landed on top...
$5M Settlement Reached in Medical Helicopter Crash Death
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 5th, 2017
The parents of a 38-year-old Alabama nurse who was killed in the crash of a medical helicopter which was responding to an emergency call in March 2016 has reached a $5 million settlement with the operators of the aircraft. The nurse, Stacey Cernadas, died March 26, 2016, when the Haynes LifeFlight medical helicopter she was riding in crashed about 12:18 a.m. west of Enterprise, Ala., after picking up a critically-injured victim from a motor vehicle...
$4.4M Settlement to Elevator Mechanic Injured in Workplace
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 24th, 2017
An elevator mechanic who was severely injured during the construction of Philadelphia's Comcast Center office tower in 2007 is receiving a $4.4 million settlement to compensate him for his injuries. The worker, Darrin Ulmer, who was 39 years old at the time of the incident, was helping to move a heavy elevator door onto a drywall cart in a lobby of the then-under-construction office building when a protective floor cover he was standing on shifted...
$56.5M Verdict Awarded to Severely Injured Calif. Highway Worker
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 10th, 2017
A 26-year-old California road construction employee who was struck by a car while working on a highway project in Eureka, Calif. in 2011 has been awarded $56.5 million in damages by a jury to compensate him for catastrophic injuries he suffered in the incident, including a severe brain injury and quadriplegia. The victim, Kyle Anderson, was working for his employer, All Phase Excavating, on a night-time project for the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) in...
$16.8M Verdict to Family of Trucker Killed in Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 31st, 2017
The family of an Alabama truck driver has been awarded a $16.8 million verdict by a jury after he was killed in a 2013 truck crash by a payload of logs that entered the truck's cab and crushed him after the vehicle went out of control. Larry Albritton died in the Oct. 7, 2013, crash due to a defective guard that was designed to keep a payload from moving forward and smashing into the truck's...