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Million Dollar Plus Verdicts and Settlements

The following are some of the million dollar plus verdicts and settlements achieved by Leonard L. Finz, Stuart L. Finz, and the Finz Firm.

Verdict - $22,575,000.00

Verdict for wrongful death, conscious pain and suffering, punitive damages, and negligent inflection of emotional distress, for three children.

Verdict - $20,520,000.00

Verdict against Philip Morris USA Inc. and American Tobacco for designing cigarettes to addict consumers. Punitive damages assessed against Philip Morris USA Inc. in the sum of $17.1 million.

Verdict - $9,000,000.00

Verdict for a victim who fell down a flight of stairs and suffered a back injury when Con Edison shut down power to her apartment building.

Settlement - $8,000,000.00

Settlement with the State of New York in the Court of Claims for a victim who sustained brain damage while descending a recreational tube slide on a slope negligently designed by New York State.

Settlement - $5,200,000.00

Settlement for an infant who suffered brain damage when a gauze pad that was applied in her mouth during cleft pallet surgery became lodged in her windpipe.

Verdict - $5,042,432.00

Verdict against Phillip Brothers Chemical Company, Inc. who failed to adequately warn a worker in an electroplating plant how to properly add zinc cyanide to a brass plating mixture resulting in an explosion causing burns and loss of vision in one eye.

Verdict - $5,000,000.00

Verdict against a hospital that failed to properly treat an asthma patient resulting in respiratory arrest and brain damage.

Verdict - $5,000,000.00

Verdict against a bus company in a wrongful death case brought by the widow of a truck driver killed in a crash with a bus.

Structured Settlement - $5,000,000.00

Settlement for a victim whose legs were severed by a train as a result of the railroad’s neglect in securing the track.

Structured Settlement - $5,000,000.00

Settlement for a stagehand (employed by a Broadway musical) rendered quadriplegic in a fall from a 30 foot height while attempting to repair stage lights.

Settlement - $4,800,000.00

Settlement for a construction worker killed when crushed by a falling machine while working in a water tunnel six hundred feet below ground.

Settlement - $4,700,000.00

Settlement for a shopper who was struck by a box that fell off a high-low resulting in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)

Settlement - $4,600,000.00

Settlement for an asthma victim given contraindicated medicine resulting in brain damage.

Settlement - $4,600,000.00

Settlement for a bicyclist that was thrown as a result of a defective roadway maintained by the State of New York during a charitable event.

Verdict with interest - $4,600,000.00

Verdict in an upstate county medical malpractice cardiac case.

Settlement - $4,500,000.00

Settlement with a hospital for the failure to timely diagnose and treat an intra-cerebral bleed of an 18 year old female patient that resulted in permanent brain damage.

Settlement - $4,200,000.00

Settlement for a victim who suffered a stroke during the delivery of her child.

Settlement - $3,500,000.00

Settlement for a newborn who contracted chickenpox from a nursery doctor resulting in brain damage.

Settlement - $3,500,000.00

Settlement for a motorist struck by a rental car causing neurological injuries.

Settlement - $3,350,000.00

Settlement in a Medical Malpractice case where the OBGYN clinic failed to inform the mother that her child would be born deformed thereby depriving her of the opportunity to have a legal abortion.

Settlement - $3,200,000.00

Settlement for a victim who suffered brain damage following replacement of a heart valve.

Settlement - $3,200,000.00

Settlement for a victim that was struck by a car and suffered brain damage while awaiting treatment in the hospital’s emergency room.

Verdict - $3,000,000.00

Verdict against the nation’s largest helmet manufacturer when a victim was thrown from a motorcycle causing her to striker her head on the pavement resulting in brain damage despite wearing the protective helmet.

Verdict - $3,000,000.00

Verdict against an upstate hospital for failure to diagnose a cerebral aneurysm.

Settlement - $2,875,000.00

Settlement for a worker who was required to change a part in a commercial boiler without the main hot water supply shut down resulting in second and third degree burns and death.

Settlement - $2,750,000.00

Settlement for burns when a roach spray can ignited by static electricity in the air.

Settlement - $2,500,000.00

Settlement for a construction worker when New York State failed to secure a concrete form at a construction site on the Long Island Expressway that fell striking the plaintiff who was working at the site and sustained a herniated disc which required surgery.

Settlement - $2,500,000.00

Settlement for the operator of a van that was killed by a train at a railroad crossing that had an inadequate line of sight.

Settlement - $2,400,000.00

Settlement for a victim who sustained a joint disease from a contaminated food supplement.

Settlement - $2,400,000.00

Settlement for a victim whose mammogram was misread as negative causing a delayed breast cancer diagnosis resulting in a more advanced stage of cancer.

Settlement - $2,300,00.00

Settlement for a victim against a pharmaceutical company that manufactured a product that caused cancer.

Settlement - $2,225,000.00

Settlement against a hospital that failed to aggressively treat a patient who was diagnosed with viral meningitis, encephalitis which resulted in death.

Settlement - $2,225,000.00

Settlement for a victim whose CT scan was misread in the emergency room of a hospital resulting in a misdiagnosis.

Settlement - $2,010,000.00

Settlement for a victim who suffered a fatal heart attack while on a crash liquid diet.

Settlement - $2,000,000.00

Settlement against the manufacturer of a vaporizer that caused a fire killing an infant and injuring the infant’s father.

Settlement - $2,000,000.00

Settlement with the State of New York in the Court of Claims for a motorist who was killed when his vehicle hydroplaned on water from a defective roadway drain causing his vehicle to strike another vehicle head-on.

Verdict - $2,000,000.00

Verdict on behalf of a driver who sustained leg fractures after striking a disabled truck that was in the roadway.

Settlement - $1,900,000.00

Settlement against a hospital that failed to timely diagnose and treat a brain aneurysm resulting in brain damage.

Settlement - $1,900,000.00

Settlement against a hospital that failed to treat severe preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome which resulted in death.

Settlement - $1,850,000.00

Settlement for a victim that was given anesthesia prior to surgery that resulted in a coma and death.

Settlement - $1,800,000.00

Settlement against a doctor for failing to properly diagnose transischemic attacks resulting in a fall over an exposed pipe, causing head trauma that was improperly treated at a hospital.

Settlement - $1,750,000.00

Settlement with a hospital for the failure to timely respond to a thyroid storm in a 32 year old female patient which resulted in death.

Verdict - $1,650,000.00

Verdict against a doctor who failed to diagnose breast cancer that resulted in a double mastectomy and metastasis.

Settlement - $1,600,000.00

Settlement with a hospital and doctors that failed to diagnose a brain aneurysm that resulted in a hemorrhage and death.

Settlement - $1,550,000.00

Settlement for the wrongful death of a 33 year old who died as a result of her doctor’s failure to diagnose lung cancer.

Verdict - $1,500,000.000

Verdict for a bicyclist who sustained a fractured arm when he was struck by a bus.

Verdict - $1,500,000.00

Verdict with a high/low settlement for a delivery route driver who sustained a fracture to his right and left leg after the corporation that owned the van failed to properly maintain the transmission linkage and the van slipped into reverse and hit the driver.

Settlement - $1,500,000.00

Settlement for a construction worker who died after falling from a ladder at a construction site.

Verdict - $1,450,000.00

Verdict for a victim who died of a heart attack one week after a stress test was misread.

Settlement - $1,250,000.00

Settlement for a victim who died of breast cancer six months after her mammogram was misread.

Settlement - $1,200,000.00

Settlement for an infant born prematurely requiring prolonged hospitalization and surgery as a result a doctor’s failure to closely monitor the pregnancy.

Settlement - $1,175,000.00

Settlement with a hospital that failed to properly treat an asthma patient that resulted in brain damage.

Settlement - $1,160,000.00

Settlement against doctors who failed to timely diagnose a rare form of brain cancer in a 14 year old boy resulting in his death.

Settlement - $1,100,000.00

Settlement for an infant born prematurely due to a compromised cervix caused by laser surgery that was performed when the infant’s mother was pregnant.

Settlement - $1,075,000.00

Settlement for a victim struck and killed by a car while crossing in the middle of the road.

Verdict - $1,000,000.00

Verdict against a department store for falsely detaining a foreign diplomat after accusing him of shoplifting.

Settlement - $1,000,000.00

Settlement for a homeowner who died after receiving third degree burns when an adhesive that he was using to install floor tiles ignited.

Verdict - $1,000,000.00

Verdict for a victim injured in an auto cop-chase case.

Settlement - $1,000,000.00

Settlement with a hospital that failed to diagnose flu-like symptoms as pneumonia resulting in the death of the patient.

Settlement - $1,000,000.00

Settlement with a hospital that failed to timely diagnose and treat coronary artery disease, resulting in death.

Settlement - $1,000,000.00

Settlement with a doctor who failed to diagnose and treat a small bowel tumor that resulted in death.

Verdict - $1,000,000.00

Verdict against a doctor who failed to diagnose and treat a rectal abscess that resulted in a recto-vaginal fistula.

Verdict - $1,000,000.00

Verdict against a Podiatrist who mismanaged an infection in the patient’s toe resulting in amputation.

And many more...