Significant Verdicts & Settlements

$25,000,000 jury verdict following liability verdict for tire repairman who sustained severe head injury while changing a tire when it exploded.

$13,000,000 for a brain injury suffered when a truck struck a pothole and turned over.

$12,400,000 for a pedestrian injured as a result of a defective roadway design.

$10,000,000 verdict for a man who dove into a wave off a pylon at Rockaway Beach and was rendered a quadriplegic.

$10,000,000 for neurosurgical malpractice.

$10,000,000 for a worker caught when a trench collapsed.

$9,500,000 verdict for twins who both had cerebral palsy as a result of obstetrical malpractice.

$8,000,000 for a brain injury in a Down's syndrome child which occurred during a tonsillectomy.

$6,000,000 verdict on theory of zone of danger for a mother who witnessed the death of her daughter who was struck by a car.

$5,500,000 for a young woman who suffered a degloving injury when struck by a truck.

$4,000,000 settlement against New York State for defective road design. Plaintiff, in a one-car accident, left the road and struck an abutment.

$3,500,000 verdict for a man injured when his Jeep rolled over.

$3,100,000 for a child injured by lead poisoning.

$3,000,000 settlement for the parents of a baby born with cerebral palsy due to the doctors' malpractice in their failure to timely perform a caesarian section.

$2.3 Million verdict from a Bronx jury who found the landlord of an Elder Avenue building liable for the injury of a tenant who was attacked inside the lobby of the building. Our client, 37 years old at the time of the attack, was a tenant in the building who was retrieving his mail when he was attacked and beaten with a baseball bat by two unknown attackers. As a result of the attack, he suffered an epidural hematoma requiring a craniotomy and a fractured clavicle. Mr. Blitz proved throughout the two-week trial that there had been several similar attacks in the building and that the locks to the lobby doors had been broken for months before the attack. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the landlord maintained he knew nothing about prior attacks or broken lobby doors. After more than four hours of deliberation, the jury returned a unanimous verdict for our client totaling $2.3 million.

$2,100,000 settlement for twins born prematurely with cerebral palsy as a result of undiagnosed infection.

$2,000,000 settlement for his infant client who was brain damaged due to malpractice during the mother's pregnancy. The physicians at the hospital ignored all indications of the baby being in distress and did not perform a C-section to induce birth, which would have prevented the infant's brain damage.

$2,000,000 for a case involving a 35-year-old man who fell from a scaffold while doing window tinting.

$2,000,000 settlement for a boy badly injured during a fire when the smoke alarm in his apartment malfunctioned and did not sound.

$1,750,000 verdict for violent assault and chase of security manager at a bank resulting in severe post traumatic stress disorder.

$1,700,000 in a legal malpractice action arising out of the representation of attorneys handling a real estate purchase.

$1,500,000 settlement for the family of a young mother who ultimately died when her tuberculosis went undiagnosed.

$1,500,000 verdict for woman who fell on a defective step going to the subway, sustaining a fracture of the arm.

$1,200,000 verdict for a man hit by a UPS truck.

$1,100,000 structured settlement for a worker injured in a fall from a scaffold who suffered a fractured hip that required surgery.

$1,100,000 settlement for 22-year-old student improperly treated in the Emergency Room of a hospital, which resulted in brain injury and permanent incapacitation.

$1,050,000 structured settlement for infant whose brain was damaged at birth.

$925,000 settlement for the family of a 42-year-old mother who died of colon cancer.