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 a young man whose leg was amputated due to a surgeon's negligence.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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