Case Results

The firm represented hundreds of clients with defective internal cardiac defibrillators and helped successfully negotiate a settlement on their behalf.

As part of the Plaintiff's Steering Committee a firm attorney successfully won compensation for thousands implanted with recalled defibrillators.

We recently tried and won a case on behalf of three young siblings who ingested lead-based paint from their apartment, resulting in the diminishment of his or her cognitive functions.

A Bronx jury awarded $20,000,000.00 to our client, a 10-year-old girl dropped downstairs out of her stroller by a security guard in the building where she lived with her mother. Rheingold, Giuffra, Ruffo & Plotkin LLP LLP, Partner Thomas Giuffra, was trial counsel for the family and obtained the verdict after a three-week trial.

Settlement in a medical malpractice action for a child who suffered brain damage at birth.

A Brooklyn jury awarded our client, a 19-year-old man, $11,000,000.00 for injuries sustained as a result of lead poisoning he sustained when he was an infant. Rheingold, Giuffra, Ruffo & Plotkin LLP, Partner Thomas Giuffra, was trial counsel for the family and obtained the verdict after a lengthy trial.

The firm obtained a verdict for a traumatic brain injury in a motor vehicle accident.

A structured settlement for a child with a hand injury after an improperly treated fracture.

Verdict for transmission of Hepatitis C due to improper use of the drug Propofol

$5,000,000 for a child with neurological impairment after an undiagnosed viral illness.

Verdict for failure to diagnose lung cancer.

For a lady with partial leg amputation after failure to diagnose a blood clot.

Verdict for failure to properly perform a sphenoid sinus biopsy resulting in blindness in one eye.

Settlement in a medical malpractice action for the failure to timely diagnose the presence of a blood clot in a 50-year-old woman, necessitating the amputation of her right arm.

Settlement in a medical malpractice action for a young man whose leg was amputated due to a surgeon's negligence.

Labor law verdict for a man who was injured at a construction site due to a defective scaffold.

For workers burned as a result of improperly labeled floor polish.

Verdict for a man left unsupervised in a nursing home, resulting in his exposure to freezing temperatures and leading to wrongful death.

Settlement for a labor law action after a man's right tibia was cut through by a saw at an unsafe worksite.

Settlement for two children who sustained brain damage due to lead poisoning.

Settlement for the wrongful death of a 9-year-old girl following the transfusion of AIDS tainted blood.

Verdict for traumatic amputation of two fingers as a result of a defective snowblower.

Verdict for delayed treatment of a complication of cataract surgery resulting in blindness in one eye.

Labor law verdict for a man who fell from a ladder at a dangerous construction site resulting in traumatic brain injury.

Settlement for two children who suffered brain damage as a result of lead poisoning.

Verdict for a woman who sustained head and neck injuries while riding Coney Island's iconic Cyclone rollercoaster.

Settlement for the failure to timely diagnose glaucoma in a child resulting in diminished vision in one eye.

Verdict for failure to diagnose an I.V. infiltration of an infant.

Settlement (full policy amount) for a man who was accidentally pricked by an improperly discarded medical needle causing the development of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.

Settlement for an infant who suffered limitation of use of her right arm due to an improperly handled birth resulting in the development of an Erb's Palsy.