The Turkewitz Law Firm has won a multitude of New York personal injury cases over the years, some of which have appeared in the New York Law Journal, popular press and publications that track jury verdicts and settlements.
The cases are listed here so that potential clients can examples of cases we have handled regarding car accidents, medical malpractice, slips and falls and other types of incidents. Since no two cases are exactly the same, of course, they should not be read as predictors as to what may happen in any other case.
$1.475M Jury verdict for Bronx woman in car
accident, fractured hip and pelvis and herniated disc. Verdict in 2008.
$1.87M
for a Brooklyn woman who suffered nerve injury to right arm during liposuction
and then a stroke after she hemorrhaged. This medical malpractice case
was featured in the New York Law Journal in 2002.
$2.5M
award for breach of partnership agreement regarding a New York law firm.
This appeared on the front page of the New York Law Journal in 1999.
$1.49M
medical malpractice recovery for a 65 year old New York man who underwent
by-pass surgery for his left leg due to vascular insufficiency, and
had his right leg amputated.
$3.07M birth
injury settlement for Erb’s Palsy to a Brooklyn child. Permanent injury
to the brachial plexus nerves. This is a multi-year payout with a present
value of $1.0M. Settled after jury selection, in 2006.
$1.2M for a Queens man
who had surgery to repair a hernia. The surgeon attempted to use surgical mesh to patch the defect in the abdominal wall. The mesh, however, was inadvertently tacked to his small intestine also.
Settled in 2008.
$1.295M medical malpractice recovery for negligence in failing to
diagnose and treat an impending stroke in a Bronx man, resulting in
left-sided weakness and right-sided numbness.
$575K
jury verdict for a 58-year-old Queens man who was hospitalized for cardiac
failure and underwent multiple intubations with an endotracheal tube,
resulting in damage to his voicebox. The medical malpractice victim
was noted courtroom sketch artist John Hart, whose works appeared in
museums, and on the pages of numerous national publications and television
broadcasts. (Four of his Watergate
trial sketches hang in Mr. Turkewitz’s office, and are featured
on this site.)
$1.015M
medical malpractice settlement for a 79-year-old New York woman when
a surgical drain was negligently left in the knee after a total knee
replacement, resulting in infection, multiple surgeries and fusion of
the knee.
$610K
jury verdict for an injury to the sciatic nerve from a negligently placed
injection in the buttocks of this Brooklyn woman. (This medical malpractice
verdict was later reduced by an appellate court to $450K because the
verdict was too high.)
$2.2M
for negligent injury to a child’s eye during childbirth, resulting in
reduced vision in the eye and forceps marks next to the eye. The $2.2M
birth injury recovery in Queens was a structured payout over many years,
which had a present value of $750K.
September 11 Attack - represented two victims
(Bronx and Brooklyn) on a pro bono basis, as part of
Trial Lawyers Care, the largest
volunteer undertaking by attorneys in the history of the country.
$675K for negligence in failing to diagnose colon cancer in a 59
year old Queens man, allowing cancer to progress from Stage 2 to Stage
3 in this medical malpractice victim.
$400K medical
malpractice settlement during jury deliberations for a 25 year old Brooklyn
man who suffered an anal stricture due to negligence following a hemorrhoidectomy.
$400K jury verdict in a Bronx medical malpractice case for negligence
in failing to diagnose and treat appendicitis, resulting in a ruptured
appendix, hospitalization and scarring.
$625K for negligence in failing to diagnose a slow growing meningioma
in the head for this medical malpractice victim in Poughkeepsie.
$450K
medical malpractice recovery for an 80-year-old New York woman who had
a surgical pad negligently left behind after bowel surgery, resulting
in infection, ICU care, temporary tracheotomy and severe weakening of
an already fragile condition.
$400K for
chemical burns in the ankle of a Bronx newborn baby from intravenous
extravisation resulting from medical malpractice
$450K medical malpractice recovery for a 77-year-old New York woman
due to a negligent failure to diagnose and treat an infection in the
left eye, leading to blindness in the eye.
$300K for a 13-year-old Westchester child with an injury to the
bowel from back surgery, resulting in short bowel syndrome due to medical
malpractice.
$400K settlement, mid-trial, for the family of a 56-year-old Queens
seamstress who bled to death during surgery when her liver was negligently
lacerated (in New York, one can not be compensated for grief, only for
monetary loss and pain and suffering). This was a wrongful death case
resulting from medical malpractice.
$300K settlement during jury deliberations for negligent injury
to the facial nerve during middle ear surgery, for this 15 year old
medical malpractice Bronx resident.
1st Amendment
Defense — defense of a Florida man wrongfully accused of defamation.
Judgment in our favor, January 12, 2001.
$250K for a slip and fall in a Dutchess
County restaurant by a 54 year old woman resulting in a torn meniscus
and rotator cuff surgery
$150K
for this Queens woman who suffered a fractured leg after a slip and
fall on snow and ice
$200K medical malpractice recovery for this New York woman who was
misdiagnosed with lymphoma and underwent radiation
$160K a Bronx child due to negligence, when a laceration of a tendon
in the ring finger of the non-dominant hand was not diagnosed at Jacobi
Hospital
$150K for delay in diagnosing breast cancer, which deprived this
Rockland medical malpractice victim of an opportunity for a lumpectomy.
$175K for a surgical sponge negligently left behind after bypass
surgery at NYU University Medical Center on a 72 year old New York woman,
necessitating surgery to remove it from behind her sternum
$100K for a broken scissor blade negligently left in this Bronx
patient after a hysterectomy at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, necessitating
surgery to remove it
$200K
medical malpractice recovery for a vesico-vaginal fistula in this Westchester
woman after a hysterectomy
$240K settlement mid-trial of this medical malpractice case involving
a sciatic nerve injury after a negligent injection in the buttocks of
this Bronx woman
$215K medical malpractice recovery for this Rockland patient who
suffered a detached retina, after an anesthesia injection ruptured the
globe of her eye prior to cataract surgery
$125K
for a laparotomy pad that was negligently left behind after a Cesarean
section for this Bronx woman at Jacobi Hospital, discovered two years
later
$150K medical malpractice recovery for retained
bone fragments left in this Queen man after a C5-C6 diskectomy at Elmhurst
Hospital, necessitating additional surgery
$185K for the failure to diagnose an impression fracture in the
shoulder in this Brooklyn man, and subsequently undergoing the wrong
surgery on his shoulder
$110K
settlement during trial for a fractured wrist in a New York man suffered
in a car accident with a police car
$285K settlement
for hospital malpractice and doctor error when catheter placed in carotid
artery instead of jugular vein, causing wrongful death of 87 year old
Westchester man.
Sexual
assault/molestaton - The firm's cases involving this subject have
been handled as "Jane/John Doe" and have not been reported.
Throughout this site you will see examples of cases the firm has handled.
Since all cases are different, and legal authority may change from year
to year, it is important to remember that prior results cannot and do not
guarantee or predict similar outcomes with respect to any future matter,
including yours, in which any lawyer or law firm may be retained.