$1,632,000.00 Verdict - Essex County - Medical Malpractice

$1,632,000.00 Verdict in a medical malpractice case involving negligent prescribing of neuroleptic drugs resulting in Tardive Dyskinesia, an irreversible, painful and disfiguring neurological disorder—2005 (Largest Verdict in Essex County—Listed in “Largest Verdicts in Virginia” Lawyer’s Weekly)

$1,600,000.00 Settlement at Mediation - Pedestrian vs. Motor Vehicle Accident

$1,600,000.00 Settlement at mediation in a pedestrian vs. motor vehicle accident resulting in comminuted proximal tibial fracture, fibular neck fracture and development of compartment syndrome, requiring emergency fasciotomy. Preexisting comorbidities led to serious and permanent complications requiring extensive past and future treatment. Listed in Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly “Million-Dollar Settlements 2016”.

$1,000,000.00 Settlement after Mediation - Pedestrian vs. Motor Vehicle Accident

$1,000,000.00 Settlement one week before trial in the U.S. District Court- EDVA- Richmond Division in a pedestrian vs. motor vehicle accident wherein a tractor trailer in a truck stop parking lot hit and rolled over client’s legs causing displaced fractures in both legs. Defendants maintained that the client was contributorily negligent and made no offers until just before trial.

$800,000.00 Settlement at Mediation - Wrongful Death - Premises Liability

$800,000.00 Settlement at mediation in a wrongful death premises liability case in the U.S. District Court- EDVA- Richmond Division wherein the decedent was struck by a bakery cart pushed by a Walmart employee causing the decedent to fall fracturing her right humerus and right hip. While in the hospital for the treatment of her injuries, the decedent developed an infection from which she did not recover.

$780,000.00 Settlement - Wrongful Death - Medical Malpractice

$780,000.00 Settlement in a wrongful death/medical malpractice case involving a missed diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis, a treatable condition which, if untreated, invariably leads to cirrhosis of the liver and death—2011

$750,000.00 Settlement at Mediation - Birth Injury

$750,000.00 Settlement at mediation in a birth injury case involving oxygen deprivation resulting in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, microcephaly and permanent neurological injuries.

$650,000.00 Settlement on Day 2 of Trial

$650,000.00 Settlement on the second day of the three-day trial in the U.S. District Court- EDVA- Alexandria Division in a wrongful death case against a scuba diving company and its instructor for failure to properly supervise the decedent during a scuba diving certification course causing the decedent to be lost and drown. Some of the complicated issues involved in the case, as well as the result of the case, were described in articles in Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly.

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$380,000.00 Verdict - Medical Malpractice

$380,000.00 Verdict in a medical malpractice case involving errant radiological interpretation resulting in the nonunion of a clavicular fracture and permanent disability—2008

$378,000.00 Settlement - Breach of Contract

$378,000.00 Settlement in a breach of contract case involving a business real estate transaction—2002

$375,000.00 Settlement - Business Tort

$375,000.00 Settlement in a business tort case involving fraud and securities law violations—2010

$350,000.00 Verdict - Medical Malpractice

$350,000.00 Verdict in a medical malpractice case involving the failure to discontinue anticoagulant drugs prior to the performance of high risk gastroenterological procedures—2008

$310,000.00 Settlement - Medical Malpractice

$310,000.00 Settlement in a medical malpractice case involving the failure to remove the tourniquet used in the performance of a bunionectomy resulting in the loss of big toe—2009

$300,000.00 Settlement - Tree Falls on Vehicle

$300,000.00 Settlement in a tragic but academically interesting case in which a tree from property adjoining the road on which my client was travelling fell during a rainstorm crushing the cab of his truck, fracturing his neck and severing his spinal cord. While the Virginia Supreme Court’s 2012 holding in Cline v. Dunlora South, LLC, which drastically limited the liability of property owners whose trees fall and cause personal injury, made a favorable result dubious, I was able to show that the property owner had previously had work done to the same tree and that he had made the condition of the tree more dangerous than it would have been in the state of nature and more likely to fall. The case settled before trial for the homeowner’s policy limits.

$290,000.00 Verdict - Products Liability

$290,000.00 Verdict in a products liability case involving defectively designed bicycle spokes that catastrophically failed during a triathlon resulting in permanent facial injuries

$200,000.00 Settlement - Wrongful Death

$200,000.00 Settlement in a wrongful death case involving an improperly filled prescription for calcium channel blocker heart medication—2009

$150,000.00 Settlement - Medical Malpractice

$150,000.00 Settlement in a medical malpractice case involving negligent prescribing of atypical antipsychotic drugs resulting in Tardive Dyskinesia—2010

$125,000.00 - Nursing Home Neglect

$125,000.00 Settlement in a case involving nursing home neglect resulting in dehydration, malnutrition and ultimately death—2012