Representative Cases

• Bad Faith: disputes settled involving bad faith claims against an insurance company, claims for breach of insurance contract
• Construction Accidents: liability of property owners, construction managers, general contractors and subcontractors apportioned in cases involving construction accidents resulting in serious injury and death
• Contract: resolved cases involving alleged breaches of agreements including construction contracts, employment contracts, contracts for services, contracts to pay legal fees, partnership agreements, indemnification agreements, condominium association rules and bylaws, confidentiality agreements and more
• Defamation: high-profile case brought against two celebrities seeking millions of dollars in damages as the result of alleged defamation per se as well as false light invasion of privacy
• Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA): successfully mediated several FELA cases, including a six-figure settlement reached after railroad conductor suffered meniscus tears and possible ACL graft impingement due to allegedly unsafe working environment
• Government: young woman experienced traumatic brain injury and death, allegedly due to willful and wanton police misconduct; confidential settlement was reached with municipality
• Government: mediated case alleging malicious prosecution arising out of alleged wrongful arrest and conviction
• Insurance Coverage: confidential settlement was reached to apportion limited insurance policy proceeds between the family of a person who died in a boating accident and a person who was injured but survived
• Medical Malpractice: jury awarded $55.5 million for permanent injuries to minor plaintiff as a result of the providers’ alleged failure to timely perform a cesarean section
• Medical Malpractice: failure to properly monitor psychiatric patient resulted in catastrophic self-harm and a seven-figure confidential settlement
• Medical Malpractice: failure to timely diagnose and treat a child’s osteomyelitis (bone infection) results in permanent impairment and a
  seven-figure settlement from multiple defendants
• Nursing Home: dozens of cases settled alleging violations of the Nursing Home Care Act, including several where patients suffered falls, allegedly due to improper transferring or lack of proper supervision; numerous other cases resolved by mediation involving the development and progression of pressure ulcers

• Personal Injury: resolved more than one hundred cases involving various injuries sustained in automobile, bicycle, motorcycle, bus, truck and boat accidents
• Premises Liability: dozens of cases resolved involving injuries due to allegedly unreasonably dangerous conditions such as snow and ice, collapsed ceilings, an exploding toilet, debris-strewn walkways, swimming pools, fences, pavement and stair defects, uneven floors, etc.
• Product Liability: in claims sounding in strict liability, negligence, and willful and wanton conduct against companies for the sale of an unreasonably dangerous product, $7.1 million verdict returned; several other cases were resolved by agreement
• Product Liability: confidential seven-figure settlement in case involving catastrophic injuries suffered by a worker when he was pulled into and ejected from an asphalt grinder conveyor belt
• Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse: resolved numerous claims brought on behalf of children, women and disabled persons resulting from abuse and/or harassment perpetrated by employees, clerics, classmates, camp counselors and others
• Toxic Tort: just before trial commenced, this case and over 800 other cases were resolved by agreement, all involving allegations that defendants’ ethylene oxide emissions from a medical equipment sterilization plant caused cancer to nearby residents; other cases brought by numerous plaintiffs against manufacturers and other emitters of ethylene oxide also resolved after lengthy negotiations
• Wrongful Death: 36-year-old man died due to undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis (DVT) two weeks after presenting to medical provider complaining of pain; confidential seven figure settlement reached
• Wrongful Death: young husband dies of undiagnosed cardiac condition, resulting in
  multi-million-dollar wrongful death recovery for his widow and infant son following mediation with providers
• Wrongful Death: claims settled after teenager dies of respiratory complications related to cancer
• Wrongful Termination: case resolved by agreement where employee claimed she was wrongfully terminated in violation of employee handbook and whistleblower policy