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GLEN ROCK AND PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY,
APRIL 25, 2000…
Court Awards $40 Million in Childhood Vaccine Injury
Case
The Parties to a National Vaccine Compensation Claim today
agreed not to seek a review and to accept a decision dated March 31, 2000,
by Special Master Laura Millman of the United States Court of Federal
Claims awarding a life-care plan which will pay $40 Million through age 76
to a Brooklyn girl who requires constant medical attention for her
developmental disabilities and seizures that resulted from a whole-cell
DTP vaccination. Certified Civil Trial Attorney E. Drew Britcher, a
partner in the Glen Rock law firm Britcher, Leone & Roth, L.L.C.,
successfully prosecuted this case involving complex medical issues.
According to Mr. Britcher, the plan will provide in excess of $8 million
in present value benefits and $40 million in benefits, if the child lives
to age 76.
The law firm of Britcher, Leone & Roth, L.L.C. unites
the professions of medicine and law to help victims of physicians'
malpractice and serious personal injury restore their future and the
future of their families. Britcher is a member of both the New Jersey and
New York Bars, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Federal Court
of Claims. He is a published author on issues of Medical Malpractice and
Product Liability Law and is the Secretary of the Association of Trial
Lawyers - New Jersey Chapter.
Armand Leone, Jr., MD, JD, a partner in the firm, is both
an attorney and a physician, Board Certified in Diagnostic Radiology and a
Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine.
Mindy Michaels Roth, who is also a partner of the firm and
contributed to the resolution of this case, is an experienced litigator
who is also admitted to the United States Court of Federal Claims and a
member of the National Vaccine Information Center.
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