Case Summaries - Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
- Doctor failed to properly monitor healing of arm fracture after surgery resulting in pain and partial loss of range of motion.
Result: Settlement of $250,000.
- College student sustained scalp and hand cuts and a concussion in a car accident on Route 2 in Concord that was caused by another driver. He was not admitted to the hospital. A doctor believed that his head injury caused some attention span and memory problems for a period of time.
Result: Settlement of $165,000
- A man in his late fifties who was in treatment with a psychologist for depression committed suicide, leaving a widow and two teenage children. Investigation revealed that the psychologist breached the standard of care by failing to act on the patient's increasing depression.
Result: Settlement of $500,000
- A forty year old single man died in the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the September 11 terrorist attacks. The family filed a claim with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
Result: Settlement of $1.3 million
- A Framingham resident sustained several fractured ribs and a punctured lung in an auto accident caused by a driver going through a stop sign in Norwood.
Result: Recovery of $100,000 (settlement for the driver's $20,000 policy limit plus an award of $80,000 in underinsurance benefits - also the policy limits - following a contested arbitration hearing).