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I have
secured over $35 million in gross settlements for clients I have represented in
personal injury actions. Highlights include:
$4.15 million settlement
against solvent company after product caught fire and caused severe burns to 12 year old child
$585,000 settlement
for pedestrian struck by motor vehicle while crossing street away from crosswalk, causing tibial plateau fracture of knee.
$1.02 million judgment
against general contractor for asbestos insulator injured in construction site accident causing exacerbation of already symptomatic back.
$1.75 million settlement
against industrial shredder manufacturer and distributors for lost arm of factory worker caused by lack of safety guards and poor installation of an industrial grade paper shredder in a recycling operation.
Participated as trial attorney in nationwide tobacco litigation,
including Scott v. American Tobacco litigation in New Orleans.
$650,000 settlement
(including workers’ compensation lien waiver) for female electrician suffering shoulder injury in construction worksite accident.
$550,000 settlement
for construction worker suffering heart attack after motor vehicle accident between employer’s car and a State Police cruiser pursuing another vehicle in high speed chase.
$525,000 judgment
(reinstated by Appeals Court) for 65 year old woman injuring shoulder after slipping and falling at supermarket.
$487,500 products liability settlement against product manufacturer and installers
for woman struck by tilt-in window while being opened, causing disc herniation and fusion.
$485,000 products liability settlement
while awaiting trial for women with healed hip fracture and alleged dizziness against trailer hitch designer resulting when husband mis-installed hitch, causing motor vehicle accident.
$435,000 FELA settlement
for back injury of injured railway worker slipping on ice inside maintenance barn.
$350,000 settlement
for back injury for forklift operator whose lift fell off the back of a truck during unloading when truck rolled away from loading dock.
$350,000 wrongful death settlement
for estate of 9 year old girl struck by train while spraying graffiti on train underpass.
$285,000 settlement
while awaiting trial against McLean Hospital physicians and security company for injury to cleaning contractor when a potentially violent patient was not properly secured.
$235,000 products and general liability settlement
for woman with knee injury caused by bank lobby floor on rainy day.
$220,000 settlement
for HVAC worker with resolved injury to knee suffered when jumping down from scaffolding onto worksite debris.
$250,000 construction site and products liability settlement
for ironworker’s fractured fingers after he operated swing staging into contact with building protrusion.
Award of Permanent Total Disability after Workers’ Compensation Hearing
for 31 year old maintenance worker due to permanent spinal cord nerve root injury from successful back surgery.
$175,000 settlement
of workers’ compensation claim for construction worker with disc herniation after fall from ladder on construction site.
$165,000 settlement
of liability claim for schoolteacher attending NIH training summer program in Pennsylvania (including payment of workers’ compensation claim against employer).
$150,000 settlement
for truck driver with already-arthritic knee when knocked down by forklift while delivering load.
$150,000 settlement
for fuel delivery driver suffering elbow injury due to improperly secured fuel tank cover of construction contractor.
$140,000 settlement
for truck driver’s estate for knee injury caused by malfunctioning deck plate after injured driver died from unrelated causes.
Participated in the “Castano” national group,
including part of the discovery and litigation team of Scott v. American Tobacco, which resulted in a 1996 verdict requiring cigarette manufacturers to provide medical monitoring for Louisiana smokers with a judgment in excess of $240 million. As part of this work Dan conducted several depositions of Phillip Morris executives, including the head of their program assigned to monitor juvenile smoking, and helped exposed fraudulent and misleading marketing plans and representations of that company to induce adolescents to commence smoking. More on the Scott case here.
The Castano group
supported litigation in multiple states resulting in successful judgments and class action settlements against tobacco manufacturers, and led to an admission by the tobacco industry that cigarettes and their principle active ingredient, nicotine, were addictive. More on the Castano group here.
$3.125 million settlement
for adolescent with facial burns caused by flammable solvent, previously thought to be immunized from suit by Federal law based upon a Massachusetts appeals court decision.
$285,000 settlement
for ambulance passenger after ambulance, with lights and sirens active, entered intersection and was struck by another driver. The ambulance driver admitted on cross examination that his view was obstructed and he was not looking in the direction of potential traffic when he entered the intersection.