We have obtained these litigation results in the past three years.
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
- Settlement exceeding $1,000,000 on behalf of a widow, and her daughters, whose husband died in an industrial accident.
- Jury verdict for $287,500 on behalf of a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting in a permanent loss of his sense of smell; insurer had previously offered $150,000.
- Settlement of $154,000 for three victims of a head-on auto collision.
- Judgment for $100,000 after a bench trial on behalf of a victim of an assault and battery who suffered a severe concussion and memory loss.
- Settlement of $100,000 on behalf of a client who suffered a debilitating hip injury that required surgery as a result of a head-on auto collision.
- Settlement of $100,000 (policy limits) on behalf of an elderly client who suffered a broken leg and other injuries as a passenger in an automobile accident.
- Settlement of $100,000 (policy limits) on behalf of a client who suffered a head injury as the result of an all-terrain vehicle accident.
- Settlement for $80,000 on behalf of a bicyclist who suffered severe injuries, including a cracked hip.
- Jury verdict for $79,000 on behalf of an elderly motorist who suffered a fractured sternum, among other injuries, in a vehicle intersection accident; insurer had previously offered $27,500.
- Settlement of $60,000 on behalf of a person who sustained severe lacerations to the legs as the result of an improperly maintained rented house.
- Settlement of $50,000 on behalf of a pedestrian who suffered neck and back injuries in an automobile-pedestrian collision.
- Settlement of $40,000 on behalf of a motorist who suffered neck and back injuries in a rear-end collision.
- Settlement of $29,000 on behalf of a passenger who suffered neck and back injuries in a rear-end collision.
- Settlement of $27,000 on behalf of a passenger who suffered neck and back injuries in a rear-end collision.
- Jury verdict for $11,500 on behalf of driver who suffered neck and back injuries in low-impact rear-end collision; insurer had previously offered $810 as a final settlement.
- Jury verdict for $36,600 on behalf of a driver who suffered neck injuries and headaches as a result of a rear-end collision; insurer had previously offered $25,000 as a final settlement.
Insurance and Employee Benefits (ERISA)
- Settlement of $29,000 for a client whose auto insurer failed to settle a personal injury claim, which resulted in a jury verdict that exceeded the insurer's policy limits.
- Forced a health plan to pay over $95,000 in medical bills, plus attorneys fees, after the plan had claimed that the client was ineligible for COBRA.
- Recovered $74,000 in life insurance benefits, plus attorney's fees, after the benefit plan administrator had twice denied the beneficiaries' claims.
- Recovered $116,000 against a major health insurer on behalf of a hospital which had been systematically underpaid on patient claims
- Convinced a mortgage disability insurer to pay the remainder of the clients' disability insurance policies (twice involving same mortgage insurer).
- Successfully appealed a disability insurer's denial of my client's long-term disability claim, netting the client over $1,600 per month for the next ten years.
- Obtained reversal of a health insurer's decision to deny coverage for a gall bladder surgery after the insurer determined it to be a pre-existing condition.
- After filing a federal ERISA lawsuit, obtained full payment for a wrongfully denied life insurance policy claim on behalf of a widow.
- Obtained full payment of an Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance policy in an amount of $18,000.
- Obtained full payment of an Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance policy in the amount of $100,000.
- Fully collected both the medical benefits and attorneys fees in a federal ERISA lawsuit after the employer simply failed to pay over $40,000 in employee medical claims under its self-insured health plan, after winning summary judgment.
- Settlement of $45,000 on a disputed employer-sponsored life insurance claim.
Other Civil Litigation
- Jury verdict for $389,000 in an eminent domain case on behalf of a property owner whose commercial real estate was partially taken by the state for a road-widening project.
- Judgment, after bench trial, returning real estate on behalf of a guardian for an elderly woman.
- Judgment, after bench trial, granting tract of property to landowner by virtue of adverse possession.
- Summary judgment (dismissal) on behalf of a home inspector who had been sued by a disgruntled property owner.
- Defense judgment, after bench trial, on behalf of a landowner whose downhill neighbor sued claiming that the landowner's mud runoff damaged her property.
