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Rhode Island Personal Injury Case Results

In addition to the hundreds of cases we have successfully resolved for clients whose injuries and losses were moderate, Marasco & Nesselbush attorneys have also recovered significant awards and settlements for our clients with catastrophic losses:

Confidential settlement - Failure to diagnose cardiac emergency and subsequent discharge from Emergency Room results in a confidential settlement against doctor and hospital

$850,000 settlement - For the death of an unborn child due to a physician’s failure to diagnose and treat the mother’s pre-eclampsia

$150,000 pretrial settlement - Obtained for pedestrian struck by underinsured motorist

$1.425 million - Wrongful death award secured for family of adolescent automobile accident victim

Liable for death - Veterans Administration Hospital liable for death of patient who fell and fractured skull; plaintiffs successfully contended that the fall was the result of hospital’s failure to follow fall precautions

$175,000 recovery - Liquor liability and general negligence claim for injured bar patron

$80,000 recovery - For tenant who fell on ice allowed to accumulate on landlord’s property

$760,000 wrongful death judgment - Following jury verdict against a dentist based on his failure to diagnose and treat infection

$925,000 recovery - For automobile accident victim who sustained fractures to pelvis and leg

Confidential settlement - Surgical negligence in performing hysterectomy results in confidential settlement just prior to trial against obstetrician

$275,000 settlement - On behalf of worker who sustained fracture at work due to faulty design and maintenance of workplace

$500,000 (insurance policy limit) - Wrongful death claim results in recovery on behalf of man killed in automobile accident

$819,000 award - After trial to parents of infant who died after being misdiagnosed and discharged by hospital Emergency Department physician

$175,000 uninsured motorist recovery - On behalf of youth struck by unidentified vehicle while waiting to enter insured’s automobile

$74,000 settlement - Before trial after successful arbitration on behalf of client who suffered “soft tissue” injuries deemed permanently partially disabling

$325,000 structured settlement - Achieved on behalf of teenager who sustained a severed tendon injury

Pre-trial confidential settlement - Retained surgical sponge after abdominal surgery results in abdominal infection

$150,000 arbitration award - For physical therapist who sustained injuries which necessitated career change

Confidential settlement - Failure to diagnose meningitis in child against pediatrician

$470,000 judgment - Following jury verdict against an orthopedic surgeon for negligently performing hip surgery on a young man who later required corrective surgery

Successfully resolved - Wrongful death claim against primary care physician and physician’s assistant; defendants failed to properly read electrocardiogram (EKG) and failed to diagnose heart attack in elderly woman

Confidential settlement - Negligently performed episiotomy results in confidential settlement in Federal District Court against hospital and surgeon

$300,000 settlement - For a teenaged passenger who suffered compression fractures in a motor vehicle accident

$975,000 total recovery - Case against bar and drunk driver for family of injured adolescent

$135,000 recovery - For fisherman who sustained knee injury on employer’s vessel due to negligent maintenance case; hinged on lack of seaworthiness claim pursuant to federal maritime law

Confidential settlement - Inappropriate antibiotic treatment results in vestibular dysfunction; pretrial confidential settlement reached with hospital and infectious disease specialists

$120,000 recovery - On behalf of airline passenger who sustained freezer burn due to airline’s negligence

Confidential settlement - Secured for patient and her husband for injuries she sustained due to negligent administration of anesthesia