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*結果は、特定の事実や法的状況によって異なる場合があります*
$750,000 Workplace Injury Settlement
The firm secured a $750,000 settlement at mediation on behalf of our client, who fell from a neglected concrete platform and suffered a severe brain bleed that required a craniotomy, along with shoulder surgery. Along with a significant reduction in the Plaintiff’s Workers’ Compensation lien, bringing meaningful relief after extensive injuries.
$300,000 Slip-and-Fall Settlement
の $300,000 settlement was achieved for our client, who slipped on a wet floor, sustaining a wrist fracture that required surgery. Highlighting the need for proper safety measures in venues where gatherings take place.
$850,000 Premises Liability Settlement
アン $850,000 settlement was reached a few weeks before trial on behalf of our client, who tripped on a raised piece of plywood and fell, suffering severe injuries.
$8,000,000 Trial Verdict against the City of Yonkers, NY
This multi-million dollar verdict was achieved for our client after a car accident involving a city employee left our client with serious injuries to the lumbar spine, cervical spine, left knee, and left shoulder. The pre-trial offer was $35,000.
$4,500,000 Private Mediation Construction Settlement
Our client, a 46-year-old union electrician worker, was in the process of installing fiber optic cables in a cement vault six-feet underground in a manhole when an electric wet-dry vacuum (filled with approximately fifteen gallons of water) rolled towards the uncovered manhole and fell on our client’s head and neck.
We obtained summary judgment as to liability under Labor Law §240(1). The client sustained numerous severe and permanent lumbar and cervical injuries that eventually required a lumbar fusion, cervical fusion and cervical fusion revision.
Due to the injuries sustained, the client has been unable to return to work as an electrician.
$2,800,000 Construction Site Settlement
This settlement was reached during a three week trial in New York County Supreme Court. A freight elevator closed on our client, a site supervisor at a construction site, causing back injuries that required a lumbar fusion.
$2,750,000 Sexual Assault Verdict
The Defendant hotel arranged for an outside individual, who was unregistered and unlicensed to perform massage therapy in New York, to go to our client’s room where she was assaulted. The Defendant’s final offer was only $150,000. Our client suffered significant harm from this incident, requiring ongoing care and treatment, and we are proud to bring her justice and the compensation she deserved.
$2,377,905 Trial Verdict in Supreme Court, Nassau County
Our client was rear-ended while driving her daughter home with her daughter. Client sustained shoulder tears requiring arthroscopic surgery and herniated discs in the cervical spine that necessitated epidural steroid injections. We obtained Summary Judgment on liability and proceeded with a trial on damages. The defendants’ final pre-trial offer was $50,000.
$1,500,000 Global Settlement
This settlement was reach for two clients, who were crossing the street in Queens, NY when a commercial truck made a right turn and knocked them both to the ground. Both clients sustained serious should and neck injuries, requiring surgical intervention. The defendants had argued that our clients were not in a designated crosswalk and negligently walk in front of the defendant’s truck.
$1,500,000 Auto Settlement
This settlement was reached after jury selection during a damages trial in New York County Supreme Court. This was a rear-end accident that caused serious neck injuries for our client.
$1,200,000 Auto Settlement
Our clients (husband and wife) were rear-ended on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers, New York. Both clients sustained numerous injuries to their shoulders and neck, requiring numerous injections and surgical procedures. The matter settled prior to depositions being held.
$1,000,000 Brain Injury Settlement
This result was achieved at a settlement conference in the Eastern District of New York. Our client slipped and fell on a liquid substance at a commercial property, striking his head and suffering a traumatic brain injury.
$1,000,000 Private Mediation
Our client was employed as a diving superintendent working on a project in the Hudson River replacing underwater cable conduits. While disembarking from the main deck of the co-defendant’s barge to co-defendant’s tugboat that was hired to transport workers to and from land, our client slipped and fell into the water. He sustained numerous tears to his shoulder and knee, both requiring extensive surgical intervention. Our client was forced to retire as he was unable to return to work due to the injuries sustained. We asserted causes of actions against both owners of the barge and tugboat, that included Violation of “The Jones Act”, Vessel Negligence Under 33 U.S.C 905(b) and 33 U.S.C. 933, Negligence and Breach of the Duties Imposed by The General Maritime Law and Common Law Negligence. The parties settled the matter at a private mediation for $1,000,000, which also included the defendants fully satisfying our client’s Workers’ Compensation lien.
$1,000,000 Private Mediation
Our client, an experienced factory worker, was using a hot stamping machine during the course of his employment when the machine malfunctioned and abruptly descended onto his hands. The malfunction trapped and crushed his hands, causing him to sustain third degree burns and broken bones. The burns and injuries necessitated a skin harvesting procedure where a tangential excision and split thickness autograft was taken from the right thigh to the bilateral hands.
$750,000 Private Mediation
Our client was traveling on Willets Point Boulevard in Queens, New York when the defendant’s vehicle ran the stop sign at 15th Drive, violently striking the driver’s side of our client’s vehicle. The client underwent a cervical discectomy and fusion and a lumbar discectomy for the numerous neck and back injuries sustained in the accident. After we obtained Summary Judgment on liability, the matter settled for $750,000 at a private mediation.
$750,000 Pedestrian Knockdown Settlement
The settlement was reached a pedestrian knockdown that occurred in Mount Kisco, NY. Our client sustained an ankle fracture and back injuries, which required a lumbar discectomy.
$500,000 Auto Accident Settlement
This settlement was secured after the insurance company initially offered $6000.
$500,000 Private Mediation
Our client was driving for Uber and was stopped in a parking lane on Old Northern Boulevard in Roslyn, NY, when the defendant’s vehicle was exiting a restaurant parking lot across the street. The defendant failed to see our vehicle while turning onto Old Northern Boulevard, smashing into the driver’s side which resulted in our car being totaled. The client underwent a left shoulder surgery and cervical discectomy as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident.
$450,000 私的調停による和解
私たちのお客様は、メジャーディーガン高速道路を走行中、商用配送用バンに追突されました。彼女は背中と膝に怪我を負い、どちらも外科的介入が必要でした。
$425,00 Medical Malpractice Settlement
This settlement was achieved after jury selection in Supreme Court, Nassau County. Our client developed a hematoma involving the left iliacus and iliopsoas muscles, femoral neuropathy and femoral nerve damage, as a result of the defendant’s failure to monitor the client’s INR levels after an unrelated surgical procedure.
$400,000 Private Mediation
Our client arrived at her office building in the morning when she slipped and fell on a puddle of water in the main lobby. Our client sustained an avulsion fracture of her right foot, numerous herniated discs and right shoulder tears that required two surgical procedures. During the course of discovery and party depositions, we were able to uncover that the employees of the building failed to take the necessary safety actions and precautions regarding the lobby and wet floor on the day of our client’s fall. Furthermore, the defendants were in violation of numerous sections in the International Building Code and International Maintenance Code.
$300,000 Slip and Fall Settlement
Our client tripped and fell on a defect in the middle of the street while walking her dog. The City of NY moved for summary judgment alleging that they had no prior notice of the defect. We were able to defeat the motion while proving that the City did in fact have notice of the subject matter defect. Our client sustained a fractured ankle as a result of her fall. The matter settled for $300,000 prior to the matter being placed on the trial calendar.
$250,000 Private Mediation
Our clients were stopped at a red light when a commercial truck improperly reversed, striking the front of our clients’ vehicle. Both sustained soft tissue injuries to their cervical and lumbar spines. Tri
$250,000決済
私たちのクライアントは、道路脇に車を停めていたところ、ニューヨーク市との契約に基づいて運行されていたスクールバスがクライアントの車両に追突しました。私たちのクライアントは肩、首、背中に大きな損傷を負い、最終的には肩の手術が必要になりました。私たちは責任に関して略式判決を受けており、調停または裁判予定表に問題が掲載される前に問題を解決することができました。
$225,000 Mediation Settlement
Our client was traveling on The Queens Midtown Expressway near Maurice Avenue when the defendant’s vehicle ran the red light at Maurice Avenue while attempting to turn onto the Queens Midtown Expressway, striking our client’s vehicle and rending him unconscious. Our client suffered numerous cervical herniated discs as well as a left shoulder labral tear that required arthroscopic surgery. The matter settled for $225,000 at a private mediation before the matter was even on the trial calendar.
$215,000 Trial Settlement
This trial settlement was negotiated in Supreme & County Court of Westchester County. Our elderly client was dropped by an ambulette driver, causing our client to suffer a fractured ankle.
$160,000 裁判での和解
私たちのクライアントは、老人ホーム施設で理学療法士として働いていましたが、ラップトップの充電器をコンセントから引き抜こうとして感電しました。両方の充電器は被告が所有および管理していました。被告らは訴訟全期間を通じて無給の立場にあり、最終的にこの問題はニューヨーク州南部地区連邦地方裁判所で裁判に持ち込まれた。
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ルイス ジョーズ アバロン アビレス LLP
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products liability. Prior to joining Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, he was associated with one of the largest personal injury and medical malpractice defense firms on Long Island. He also served as a Senior Trial Attorney for Allstate Insurance Company.
