Noteworthy Verdicts And Settlements

Results may vary depending on a case’s facts and circumstances.

$60 Million – Structured Settlement Flu Vaccine Injury

Lump sum payment to a child who suffered Guillaine-Barre syndrome following influenza vaccine and became a quadriplegic at 3 years of age, with additional annual payments for life.

$7.1M Settlement – Obstetrical Malpractice – Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy

Settlement on behalf of a young boy who suffered brain injury from a lack of oxygen during labor and delivery. Britcher, Leone & Sergio showed that multiple obstetricians and nurses’ fetal distress during delivery caused permanent neurological injuries requiring round the clock care.

$4.5 Million Settlement – Motor Vehicle Accident

Plaintiff sustained serious spinal injuries including numerous herniated discs requiring multiple surgeries with insertion of hardware as a result of being rear-ended at a New Jersey highway toll plaza.

$42 Million – Structured Settlement Vaccine Injury

Lump sum payment, plus annual payments, for severe injuries resulting in brain damage, ventilator and feeding tube dependency following receipt of the mandatory vaccinations required at two months of age (DPT, IPV, HIB, Hep B and Prevnar) for past medical reimbursement, pain and suffering, future lost wages and life care needs.

$7.05M Settlement – Obstetrical Malpractice Cerebral Palsy

Settlement on behalf of a young girl who suffered brain injury from a lack of oxygen during labor and delivery. Britcher, Leone & Sergio showed that multiple obstetricians, nurse midwives and nurses failed to recognize hypertension during the pregnancy and signs of fetal distress during delivery that caused permanent neurological injury and cerebral palsy.

$3.5 Million Settlement – Resort Negligence

A vacation at a well-known Caribbean resort resulted in a Bergen County man suffering spinal injuries, causing him to be a spared quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair, with major motor coordination of his arms. Our firm achieved a present value settlement that involved special negotiations with the Department of Health and Human Services for the state of New Jersey and payment from resort management for their failure to guard against injuries to guests such as the plaintiff.

$40 Million – Structured Award Vaccine Injury

The parties to a National Vaccine Injury Compensation claim 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. The decision awards a life-care plan to a Brooklyn girl who requires constant medical attention for her developmental disabilities and seizures that resulted from a whole-cell DTP vaccination. Britcher, Leone & Sergio, LLC, successfully prosecuted this case involving complex medical issues.

$5.45M Settlement – Orthopedic Malpractice Teenager Leg Amputation

Settlement on behalf of a teenage boy who lost his lower leg because of surgical malpractice involving the correction of a leg deformity. Britcher, Leone & Sergio identified errors in the preparation for and performance of surgery that caused an arterial injury resulting in a below knee amputation.

$3.5 Million Present Value Settlement – Wrongful Death – Car Accident

A Rockland County woman’s family received a settlement of claims against a truck and bus company when their negligence led to her car being crushed, with her inside.

$2.7M Settlement – Wrongful Death – Electrocution

Settlement on behalf of a woman and her children for the wrongful death of her husband and their father due to the failure to guard or de-energize a downed electrical line.

$1.65 Million Settlement – Trip-and-Fall

A woman suffered an ankle injury in a car accident that was then made worse when she tripped and fell on an uneven floor in a beauty product store, leading to osteonecrosis.

$900K Settlement – Wedding Guest Injury – Ankle Fracture

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a settlement for a woman and her husband who suffered an ankle fracture because of a CO2 tank spinning across the dance floor and colliding with her due to the negligence of the DJ and caterer.

$600K Settlement – Motor Vehicle Accident

Retired gentlemen suffered herniated discs requiring spinal fusion surgery because of being rear-ended while stopped at a red light.

$19 Million – Structured Award Vaccine Injury

A Paterson girl suffered retardation, seizures and behavioral disorders from a rubella vaccine. Our firm alleged that the vaccine, which led to her being stricken with encephalopathy, caused her disabilities. The total payments to be received are based on the girl’s life expectancy of age 75.

$13.6 Million – Structured Settlement Obstetrical Malpractice

Our firm achieved a settlement including the establishment of a special-needs trust for the preservation of funds for a Bergen County boy who was a victim of delayed delivery by his mother’s obstetricians. We alleged that the young man suffers from pervasive developmental delay, with an autistic component and self-injurious behavior, as a result of the doctor’s negligence.

$5.7 Million Structured Settlement – Obstetrical Malpractice

A settlement was achieved on behalf of a Morris County girl who had spinal deformities, which were missed during prenatal ultrasound evaluations. As a result, the parents were deprived of the opportunity to determine whether to terminate the pregnancy. In addition to complications of the spinal deformities, the child suffered congenital impairments in her hearing and other observable physical deformities.

$5.2 Million Structured Settlement – Obstetrical Malpractice

A Sussex County girl received a structured settlement for the negligence of her mother’s obstetrician in failing to perform a timely delivery, resulting in limited physical limitations that required extensive therapies and the use of accommodative devices. The settlement included the establishment of a special-needs trust for the preservation of funds and provision of her special needs.

$5.2 Million Verdict – Surgical Malpractice

A Morris County jury awarded the estate of a local man a net verdict against two physicians as a result of improper medical clearance that failed to diagnose hepatitis. This led to an unnecessary surgical procedure causing him to go into liver failure that was ultimately fatal. The jury also found there was a chance that the man’s liver failure and death could have resulted from his preexisting conditions and also found that he was partly at fault by failing to advise the anesthesiologist of his hepatitis.

$3.8 Million Present Value Settlement – Pediatric Urological Surgery

A Passaic County girl who underwent a pediatric urological procedure that was negligently performed suffered injury to both her ureter and bladder, causing a need for her to be catheterized of her urine and putting her at future risk of renal failure. She received a settlement to provide for her present and future special needs.

$3.75 Million Settlement – Failure to Diagnose Stroke

A man presented to a stroke center emergency room with symptoms of a stroke that was not diagnosed and treated before he suffered irreversible damage.

$3 Million Settlement – Wrongful Birth/Life

A dramatically impaired child was born following an obstetrician’s failure to identify a clear abnormality on a prenatal ultrasound.

$2.7M Settlement – Obstetrical Malpractice

Settlement on behalf of a young boy who suffered injury from a lack of oxygen during labor and delivery causing physical disabilities. Britcher, Leone & Sergio established that an obstetrician and nurse recognize signs of fetal distress during delivery that caused permanent neurological injury.

$2.5 Million Verdict – Failure to Timely Diagnose Breast Cancer

An Essex County woman whose breast cancer diagnosis was delayed, resulting in a Stage IIB diagnosis and full mastectomy, received a verdict from an Essex County jury.

$2 Million Settlement – Wrongful Birth/Wrongful Life

A Somerset County family received a present value settlement regarding the failure of a radiologist and radiological technician to recognize the dramatic malpositioning of a fetus’s internal organs.

$1.875M Settlement – Radiological Malpractice – Wrongful Birth/Life

Settlement on behalf of a child and his parents who suffers from Trisomy 21 that markers for it were missed in pre-natal ultrasounds due to the improper performance by the technologist and negligent interpretation by radiologists.

$1.65 Million Settlement – Spinal Surgery

A Union County woman received a settlement after a spinal surgeon negligently removed a portion of a spinal nerve during herniated disk surgery.

$1.59 Million Judgment – Medical Malpractice

A 68-year-old plaintiff proved to a Bergen County jury that her family physician failed to diagnose and treat an infection in her foot. Gangrene developed and she was required to have an above the knee amputation of her leg. Our firm proved to the jury that the defendant committed malpractice in failing to take a culture and hospitalize the plaintiff when her condition started to deteriorate.

$1.5 Million Settlement – Workplace Injury

A truck driver was hurt by a powerline electrical charge at a power plant where he was picking up fly ash near unguarded high voltage lines.

$1.5M Settlement – Radiology and Emergency Medicine Malpractice

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a settlement for a man who presented to the hospital with stroke symptoms and was discharged due to a misread CT scan and despite difficulty walking, resulting a lost chance for receiving tPA and avoiding the harm.

$1.45 Million Settlement – Combined Trip-and-Fall and Surgical Malpractice

A woman slipped on ice due to poor snow removal by her landlord and had improper surgery for a broken tailbone.

$1.35 Million Settlement – Wrongful Death

A settlement was achieved for the death of a 37-year-old divorced and unemployed woman who was treated at a psychiatric hospital and died. The hospital failed to monitor the woman’s fluid intake and output while on neuroleptic drugs; this led to dehydration and seizures, which caused brain damage and eventual death.

$1.2M Verdict – Failure to Properly Treat

A Bergen County jury awarded a Chester, New York, man and his wife for the defendant’s failure to timely address the plaintiff’s heart condition, which resulted in his suffering a significant heart attack. Following a clinical stress test that showed a likely right coronary blockage, an angiogram was performed, showing a 90% blockage of that same vessel.

Despite increasing symptoms over the previous weeks, the patient was released from the hospital and immediately told to return eight days later for an angioplasty and stent. He suffered a heart attack that night. The performing doctor failed to acknowledge the plaintiff’s medical history of chest pain that put him at high risk for a heart attack. No medical history was present in the records, and the doctor failed to obtain a history prior to treatment.

$1.35M Settlement – Orthopedic & Rehabilitation Center Malpractice – Leg Amputation

Settlement for a woman who underwent a successful total knee replacement but then suffered a failure of her surgeon, physical therapists and nurses during rehabilitation to properly monitor her leg brace causing the severe pressure injuries and removal of her leg.

$1.2 Million Settlement – Failure to Provide Adequate Security

A Hudson County man suffered neck, back, pulmonary and psychiatric injuries. The landlord for his place of employment failed to protect against a threat to the property, which resulted in his becoming trapped in a smoke-filled room.

$1M Settlement – Wrongful Death – Orthopedic Malpractice

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a settlement for a widow whose husband died as a result of the orthopedist’s and nurses’ failure to order anticoagulation upon his discharge from patellar tendon repair surgery resulting in his death from a pulmonary embolus.

$1 Million Judgment – Podiatric Malpractice

A diabetic man’s podiatrist failed to properly diagnose and treat a foot ulcer, which resulted in a partial amputation of his foot. It was also proven that the doctor had changed his records to hide the mistake.

$900K Partial Settlement – Spine Surgery Malpractice – Drop Foot

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a partial settlement against his doctor for a man who underwent a so called minimally invasive spine surgery that was performed by a physiatrist and not a spine surgeon causing neurologic injuries and a drop foot.

$850K Settlement for Brachial Plexus/Shoulder Dystocia Injury

A Somerset County girl and her mother received an $850,000 settlement as a result of an obstetrician’s

$800K Recovery Failure to Treat Eye Infection and Vision Loss

A 44-year-old Bergen County man with diabetes developed an eye infection with a fungus that rapidly caused blindness in his left eye.  Due to a delay in diagnosis and treatment, he lost a chance of cure that could have prevented his vision loss.

$750K Settlement – Trip and Fall

Plaintiff suffered a neck injury requiring cervical epidurals when she slipped and fell at a movie theater.

$750K Settlement – Wrongful Death – Emergency Department Malpractice

Britcher, Leone & Sergio achieved a settlement for the wrongful death of a husband/father who died because of an insufficient physical examination and incomplete x-ray examination allowing him to be negligently discharged and ultimately die from hemorrhage into his chest several days later.

$700K Settlement – Obstetrical Malpractice Fetal Death

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a settlement for a couple whose baby died because of obstetrical malpractice during the labor and delivery. The baby suffered lack of oxygen during the birthing process which resulted in death soon after birth, leaving the parents to suffer severe emotional distress and pain.

$500K Settlement – Burn Injury

A preschooler suffered a chest burn when a teacher spilled hot liquid on him.

$500K Settlement – Dog Bite

A young girl suffered facial scars because of a dog bite.

$500K Settlement – Coaching Negligence – Post Concussive Syndrome

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a settlement for a young man who suffered 3 blows to the head in a wrestling practice due to coaches returning him to the mat after each time a fellow wrestler and a coach flipped him on his head despite his requests to sit out.

$485K Settlement – Obstetric Malpractice – Negligent Circumcision

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a settlement for a boy whose mother’s obstetrician performed a negligent circumcision causing injury to the child’s head of his penis.

$475K Settlement – Premises Liability

Plaintiff suffered a leg fracture requiring surgical insertion of hardware because of being struck by a remote-controlled vehicle.

$450K Settlement – Hardware Store Negligence – Burns

Britcher, Leone & Sergio obtained a settlement for a man who suffered burns on his legs and hands after the incorrect product provided to seal a floor required removal and the product given to remove ignited from his water heater pilot light, despite his following the instructions for use provided by the salesperson.

$350K Settlement – Dog Bite

A young girl suffered facial scars as a result of a dog bite.

$285K Settlement – Burn Injury

A gentleman suffered chest burns while in a spa sauna.

$225K Settlement – Motor Vehicle Accident

Uber passenger sustained a concussion and suffered from post-concussion migraines when the Uber driver drove into a telephone pole.

$215K Settlement – Motor Vehicle Accident

Plaintiff suffered from migraines following a rear-end hit motor vehicle accident.

$200K Settlement – Indoor Ski Design – Shoulder and Pelvic Injuries

Settlement for a woman who suffered shoulder and pelvic injuries when she fell trying to avoid a collision with another skier at an indoor ski facility who had been directed across her path to return to the ski lift.

$160K Binding Arbitration – Motor Vehicle Accident

Plaintiff suffered an exacerbation of pre-existing spinal herniations when a motor vehicle collided into plaintiff’s truck while attempting to make a left turn.

$150K Settlement – Motor Vehicle Accident

Woman whose motor vehicle was rear-ended while waiting to merge onto roadway suffered an exacerbation of her pre-existing neck herniations.