Representative New York Personal Injury Cases

• $13.3 MILLION VERDICT (Rachko v. New York Medical Group and Jonathan Greenberg, M.D.), Supreme Court, Bronx County

  Medical Malpractice: Family Practice/Neurology.

• $9,570,400 VERDICT - (DiMarco v. New York City Health and Hospital Corporation), Supreme Court, Kings County

  Medical Malpractice: Emergency Medicine/Neurosurgery

  (Mr. Alton argued the appeal in DiMarco v. New York Health and Hospitals Corp. in the Appellate Division, Second Department in January of 1998. On February 27, 1998, the New York Law Journal published its opinion sustaining 7.1 million dollars including 1.25 million dollars for past and future loss of consortium which was the highest total award and loss of consortium award the Court had ever upheld up to that point in time. The loss of consortium award remains the largest sustained by this Court.)

• $9.185 MILLION VERDICT (Cropper v. M.D. Stewart, NYCTA, Said Nfaoui and Paper Cab Corporation), Supreme Court, New York County

  Motor Vehicle/Bus/Bike accident

• $5.75 MILLION VERDICT - (Seigel v. Computerized Scanning Associates), Supreme Court, New York County

  Medical Malpractice: Radiology

• $2.125 MILLION VERDICT - (Ramirez v. Brown ), Supreme Court, Bronx County

  Medical Malpractice: Ophthalmology

• $1.8 MILLION SETTLEMENT -(Fitzgerald v. DiBlasi), Supreme Court, Richmond County

  Medical Malpractice: Family Practice

• $1.6 MILLION VERDICT - (Henry v. Kara), Supreme Court, New York County

  Medical Malpractice: Opthalmology

• $1.3 MILLION SETTLEMENT - (Snowden v. Albany Medical Center), Supreme Court, County of Albany

  Medical Malpractice: Cardiology

• $1.273 MILLION SETTLEMENT - (Gibbs v. City of New York), Supreme Court, Queens County

  Automobile/Highway Design

• $1.225 MILLION VERDICT - (Curtis v. Rider Construction), Supreme Court, New York County

  Construction Accident

• $1.175 MILLION VERDICT - (Kavanaugh v. Kosich), Supreme Court, Greene County

  Medical Malpractice: Emergency Medicine/Neurosurgery

• $950,000.00 SETTLEMENT - (Sola v. Leonard), Supreme Court, Westchester County

  Medical Malpractice: Cardiology

• $660,000 VERDICT - (Serrano v. New York City Housing Authority), Supreme Court Bronx County

  Negligence/Window Guards

• $600,000 SETTLEMENT - (Dyer v. Lohan), Supreme Court, Nassau County

  Automobile

• $400,000 SETTLEMENT - ( Lingener v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Maynard, O'Connor & Smith), Supreme Court, Rensselaer County

  Bad Faith/Legal Malpractice

• $372,000 VERDICT - (Park v. City of New York), Supreme Court, New York County

  False arrest, excessive force by police

• $720,000 SETTLEMENT - (Seixas v. Drobit and Krupka Express), U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania

  Automobile/Tractor trailer collision. Tractor trailer had a limited policy.