Recent Cases, Silverstein & Bast

RESULTS FOR OUR CLIENTS

All of our clients have suffered life changing injuries or the death of a loved one. At Silverstein & Bast we work closely with our clients to provide compassionate yet zealous legal representation. We work as a team with our clients; as a result, we been very successful over the last two decades in resolving cases as quickly and safely as possible.

We have had at least one $1 million dollar settlement or verdict every year for the past decade. In 2007 and 2008 we settled five separate cases for more than a million dollars each.

In 2008 we obtained $2.5 million for an infant who contracted HIV due to the failure of the medical clinic to test the mother. The mother in that case also received a settlement of $610,000.

In 2007, we obtained settlements for three children in the amount of $4.5 million, $1.7 million and $1.2 million. We also obtained a settlement for $1.7 million for the family of a woman who died of a drug overdose at a hospital.

In 2006 we settled for $1.75 million the case of a man paralyzed because a hospital did not perform spinal surgery in time.

In January 3, 2005 we collected $1,425,000 for a woman who suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm due to a radiologist’s misreading of a CT scan.

On June 27, 2005 we collected $1,825,000 for a child injured as a result of an inappropriate vacuum extraction delivery at birth.

On March 8, 2004 we obtained a settlement of $1,300,000 for an 80 year old woman who suffered partial paralysis following surgery at a well-known Manhattan hospital. We believe this to be the largest settlement of its kind for an elderly patient.

In 2003 we won a $6.1 million dollar verdict in favor of the family of a 34 year old woman who died of a pulmonary embolism following a cesarean section. The case had been declined by another firm before the family came to us.

Other notable successes included a verdict of $550,000 against a State Hospital for failing to properly treat lung cancer; a verdict for $2.5 million against a neurosurgeon for improperly performed back surgery; a $580,000 settlement for a construction worker whose foot was run over by a forklift and a $587,500 recovery for an 82 year old woman who suffered an eye injury tripping on a staircase.

Silverstein & Bast
Attorneys at Law
217 Broadway
New York, NY 10007

212.608.4040