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$7.3 Million recovery for a young man who sustained several fractures and a permanent brain injury, which left him with both motor and cognitive deficits, after a department store truck missed a stop sign and struck his car.
$4 Million recovery for a 49-year-old man who suffered permanent brain damage as the result of the malpractice of an emergency department physician who failed to diagnose a subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a leaking aneurysm when the patient complained of the sudden onset of "the worst headache of my life."

$9.4 Million recovery for a 22-year-old man from Pennsylvania who suffered brain damage when he lost his balance while installing satellite communications equipment on the roof of a building in Valatie, New York.
$4 Million recovery for a 69-year-old construction worker who suffered a spinal cord injury with resulting paralysis while renovating a commercial building.

$11 Million Recovery Powers & Santola, LLP, is proud to announce that attorneys Laura Jordan and Margie Soehl recently obtained an $11.6 million medical malpractice verdict on behalf of our client. The case involved a doctor’s failure to properly interpret and report a CT scan, which caused our client to suffer a stroke that left him permanently disabled. The verdict is the largest ever handed down in Warren County and is believed to be the largest for an adult in the history of the entire 11-county Fourth Judicial District.
$4 Million recovery for a 49-year-old man who suffered permanent brain damage as the result of the malpractice of an emergency department physician who failed to diagnose a subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a leaking aneurysm when the patient complained of the sudden onset of "the worst headache of my life."

$7.3 Million recovery for a young man who sustained several fractures and a permanent brain injury, which left him with both motor and cognitive deficits, after a department store truck missed a stop sign and struck his car.
$6.3 Million recovery for a 14-year-old boy who suffered a fractured skull with a diffuse axonal brain injury that caused cognitive impairments when the car in which the boy was a passenger was penetrated by a defectively designed snow plow assembly unit attached to the front of the truck that collided with the car.

$7.25 Million recovery for an 11-year-old girl who suffered a broken neck and quadriplegia as a result of being directed to dive into the shallow end of a swimming pool while participating in a beginning swimming program at a pool owned by a local school district.
$4 Million recovery for a 69-year-old construction worker who suffered a spinal cord injury with resulting paralysis while renovating a commercial building.

$4 Million recovery for a 55-year-old laborer who suffered amputation of both legs, one above the knee and one below the knee, when he was struck and his legs were crushed by a dump truck that was backing up while resurfacing a city street.
$3.5 Million recovery from the State of New York for the death of 26-year-old civil engineer who died while working on a road construction project. He was struck by a construction vehicle backing up in the construction area and crushed to death. The man's death was caused by the State's failure to provide a safe place to work as required by Labor Law §241(6).

$2.5 Million recovery for the estate of a 49-year-old husband and father of two whose death was the result of complications that arose from quadriplegia caused by a failed spinal surgery.
$5.2 Million recovery for the family of a 32-year-old mother who bled to death from an undiagnosed maternal hemorrhage following a Caesarean section. In addition to being one of the largest cash settlements in New York State for the a death of a mother during childbirth, the Court ordered the hospital to fund a lecture series on patient safety in the woman's name for twenty years and to purchase equipment for use in training its obstetrical and delivery staff.