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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
VERDICT & SETTLEMENTS
HALL OF FAME
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the New York Law Journal’s Verdicts & Settlements Hall of Fame: Medical Malpractice.
VerdictSearch and the New York Law Journal are proud to honor some of the highest dollar – and highest pro-
ile – medical malpractice cases from New York over the last ive years. he selection process was straightfor-
ward. he cases contained in this supplement were compiled from ive years of VerdictSearch data. Given the
size and diversity of the Medical Malpractice arena, in addition to highlighting the Top 25 cases from the last
ive years, we have also broken down the cases by category. hat gives you an opportunity to see who among
your colleagues has had terriic success in specialty areas.
As always, there are caveats: We generally judged the verdicts using the dollar amount returned by the judges
or juries. However, in footnotes at the end of each case description, we noted the amount of money that was
added to or subtracted from the award by post-trial motions, interest, legal fees and other factors.
We hope you enjoy reading about these cases, which oten broke new legal ground in addition to returning
high damage awards. As with any Hall of Fame, we’re sure there will be arguments over what we included and
what we excluded, so we welcome your feedback.
If you do not see a case you worked on, we encourage you to begin reporting your cases to VerdictSearch. You
can submit a case to VerdictSearch by telephone at (212) 457-9587. For subscriptions to the VerdictSearch on-
line database of 185,000+ cases call sales at 1-800-445-6823. VerdictSearch is second to none when it comes to
verdict and settlement research and reporting. For over 40 years, VerdictSearch has been the nation’s trusted
source for news and research, providing legal and insurance professionals with the most accurate, detailed case
reports each week. You can ind them online at www.verdictsearch.com
As always, feel free to contact us with your views. Even better, when you or your irm wins a signiicant victory,
give the VerdictSearch team a shout so we can include it in the VerdictSearch database as well as our annual
Top Verdicts and Top Settlements special sections as well as special commemorative publications like this one.
And of course, kudos to all those being honored in the pages that follow and at our celebratory awards dinner
on November 20, 2014. Congratulations on your accomplishments and in being part of our inaugural Hall of
Fame awards!
Hal Cohen
VP, Group Publisher, New York Law Journal
2 November 2014
