Record-Setting Medical Malpractice Verdicts and Settlement in New York

Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf has secured some of the largest medical malpractice verdicts ever awarded in New York State, including multiple eight- and nine-figure jury verdicts involving stroke misdiagnosis, birth injury, anesthesia negligence, and catastrophic spinal injury.

Among the most significant medical malpractice results obtained by our New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers exceeding $10 Million:

  • $120 Million verdict – Failure to timely diagnose basilar artery stroke resulting in permanent brain damage (Westchester County)
  • $103 Million verdict – Birth injury resulting in profound neurological impairment (Broome County)
  • $90,939,857 verdict – Failure to diagnose placental abruption leading to cerebral palsy
  • $60,033,041 verdict – Epidural steroid injection causing permanent paralysis (Nassau County), believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict ever recorded in Nassau County
  • $17,250,000 verdict – Failure to diagnose spinal malformation resulting in permanent incontinence
  • $16,254,715.55 recovery – Birth injury (HIE) due to failure to respond to fetal distress (Staten Island)
  • $12 Million settlement – Radiation overdose during cancer treatment
These landmark verdicts reflect decades of experience litigating complex, high-stakes medical negligence cases against hospitals, physicians, and major healthcare institutions throughout New York.

For full case descriptions and additional notable verdicts across all practice areas, please visit our Notable Verdicts pageAdditional Major Medical Malpractice Results 
($5 million -  $10 million)
  • $9,500,000 settlement in an anesthesia malpractice case for brain damage suffered by a young professional woman after her endotracheal tube was prematurely removed following uterine fibroid surgery, causing respiratory arrest during transfer to the recovery room.
  • $9,400,000 recovery in a Manhattan medical malpractice case in which a woman suffered brain damage following ambulatory gynecological surgery in which doctors failed to properly monitor her post-operative course in which she suffered an anoxic event that was not timely treated.
  • $9,200,000 settlement in a Brooklyn medical malpractice case in which doctors and hospital employees fail to timely diagnose and treat a small bowel obstruction which resulted in systemic infections, multiple surgeries, lengthy hospitalization, and the need for a kidney transplant.
  • $9,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case involving surgery to remove fibroids in a young woman resulting in brain damage.
  • $9,000,000 settlement in a hospital malpractice case for  man who died as a result of negligent post-operative care following colon resection surgery.
  • $8,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which a woman was rendered brain damaged as a result of anesthesiologic malpractice.
  • $8,000,000 settlement for a woman in case in which doctors and hospital employees failed to timely diagnose a valvulus (twisting of the intestine) in a woman which caused multiple surgeries and hospitalizations and the need for an intestinal transplant.
  • $8,000,000 settlement on behalf of an 18-year old boy in a New York medical malpractice lawsuit where a physician prescribed the medication Depakote without monitoring the boy's liver function despite the known effects of Depakote on the liver. As a result of the failure to monitor the liver function, the plaintiff sustained complete liver failure requiring a liver transplant and hepatic encephalopathy resulting in brain damage.
  • $8,000,000 settlement in a Nassau County medical malpractice case for a child rendered brain damaged with cerebral palsy as a result of negligent obstetrical care given to the baby's mother.
  • $7,000,000 settlement on behalf of a mother who suffered brain damage during child birth when the epidural injection spread to her brain.
  • $7,000,000 award in a Brooklyn Medical Malpractice / Stroke Misdiagnosis Case. Secured for a 35-year-old bookkeeper who was misdiagnosed with Bell’s Palsy in a Brooklyn emergency room while she was actually suffering an evolving stroke.
  • $6,800,000 settlement in a misdiagnosis case involving a six year old child whose bacterial infection was not diagnosed and resulted in the loss of a leg.
  • $6,600,000 settlement in Upstate New York obtained by our surgical malpractice lawyers for a 69-year-old who underwent a leg amputation after his femoral artery was punctured during the insertion of a guide wire.
  • $6,100,000 settlement in a Dutchess County medical malpractice case involving the death of a woman after giving birth.
  • $6,000,000 settlement in Onondaga County for a child rendered brain damage as a result of medical malpractice in the obstetrical care rendered to the baby's mother.
  • $6,000,000 settlement for a woman who sustained a herniated disc in a car accident and experienced further complications due to medical malpractice. In an operation intended to address the herniated disc, the operating surgeon inadvertently slipped, causing a laceration to the dura mater, the protective covering of the spinal cord.
  • $5,995,000 for a young boy in New York County who sustained a brain injury as a result of a pharmacy error in a case involving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) which was mixed with 10 times too much dextrose and which was delivered to the child's home by an out of state pharmacy and administered by a private duty nurse.
  • $5,500,000 settlement for a young child brain injured at birth due to medical malpractice by a New York doctor.
  • $5,400,000 settlement in a Monroe County medical malpractice case on behalf of an infant who suffered brain damage as a result of the doctors' failure to perform a timely caesarean section.
  • $5,300,000 settlement in a birth injury case on behalf of a young Staten Island man whose 36-year-old wife died days after childbirth. Her New York and New Jersey clinicians failed to diagnose and treat an infection that progressed to sepsis and multi-organ failure, resulting in her wrongful death.
  • $5,000,000 recovery for a Connecticut man injured when he fell while awaiting treatment at a hospital.
Significant Medical Malpractice Verdicts and Settlements
($1 million -  $5 million)
  • $4,850,000 recovery for a Kings County infant who suffered a birth injury caused by untreated fetal distress.
  • $4,800,000 verdict in a Brooklyn medical malpractice case for a woman whose doctor treated her cancer with alternative medicine, including enzymes and coffee enemas.
  • $4,750,000 verdict for a baby brain damaged because of fetal distress and failure to properly resuscitate.
  • $4,750,000 settlement in an obstetrical malpractice case in which a baby's brain damage was due both to the obstetrician's failure to diagnose fetal distress during labor and to the pediatricians' failure to resuscitate the newborn baby properly.
  • $4,500,000 settlement in a legal malpractice case involving a woman whose lawyer failed to file the proper paperwork with the court when she had a claim against her doctor for failing to properly treat her brain tumor.
  • $4,450,000 settlement in a wrongful death case for a 45-year-old police officer who was improperly discharged from a Rockland County hospital without adequate anticoagulation.
  • $4,250,000 settlement awarded for damages due to the negligent conduct of a stem cell transplant procedure, resulting in catastrophic multi-system organ failure and the subsequent need for an ileostomy.
  • $4,250,000 settlement in a New York medical malpractice case on behalf of a Queens man who sustained brain damage due to medical malpractice committed by an anesthesiologist while he was undergoing surgery for sleep apnea.
  • $4,000,000 recovery in a medical malpractice for the failure to diagnose a an epidural hematoma causing brain damage.
  • $4,000,000 verdict for a man who was negligently discharged from a medical center when he was suffering from a psychotic episode. He was struck by a train and suffered the loss of both legs.
  • $4,000,000 recovery for a Kings County man who was admitted to the emergency room after a bar fight and had sustained an undiagnosed subdural hematoma.
  • $3,900,000 verdict for a newborn rendered brain damaged due to excessive drug (Fentanyl) administration following surgery for intestinal obstruction (meconium ileus) causing respiratory compromise and failure to timely resuscitate.
  • $3,500,000 settlement on behalf of a man injured as a result of improper administration of an anesthetic.
  • $3,500,000 settlement for the estate of a 78-year-old woman who died after being prescribed a contraindicated medication and dose.
  • $3,500,000 wrongful death settlement for the family of a restaurateur who was inappropriately released from a hospital's emergency room. Despite showing signs and symptoms of a pulmonary embolism, the necessary medical interventions were not provided, resulting in the plaintiff's death.
  • $3,500,000 wrongful death settlement for a 78-year-old woman prescribed a contraindicated medication and dosage.
  • $3,450,000 jury verdict for a man who suffered significant muscle and nerve damage to his forearm after an orthopedic surgeon lacerated the brachial artery during a routine bicep surgery. The injury was not immediately recognized and resulted in compartment syndrome of his arm.
  • $3,375,000 Settlement in a  New York medical malpractice case for the wrongful death of a 46 year old husband and father of two children in which the patient died on the operating table during the performance of back surgery.
  • $3,345,259 settlement for a birth injury. The infant sustained a brachial plexus nerve injury and ongoing impairment to his left arm due to the defendants' improper delivery technique.
  • $3,000,000 settlement for the family of a patient who died after he was administered a deadly amount of narcotics by the hospital.
  • $3,000,000 recovery in a medical malpractice for an 18 year old girl who lost her leg as a result of a physician's malpractice in failing to diagnose a pseudoaneurism of the popliteal artery following an ACL repair. This was the full amount of insurance coverage.
  • $3,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case for a child who suffered Erb's Palsy following a negligent delivery by his mother's obstetrician.
  • $3,000,000 settlement for a brain damaged baby due to obstetrical malpractice. This was the total available proceeds from the municipality.
  • $3,000,000 settlement for the estate of a woman who died during childbirth as a result of the physician's failure to diagnose internal bleeding.
  • $2,900,000 settlement for a New Jersey man whose 29-year-old wife and unborn daughter died due to an undiagnosed pulmonary embolism. Her obstetrical providers failed to recognize and address her pulmonary complaints until cardiac arrest occurred, and neither could be resuscitated.
  • $2,750,000 settlement obtained by our Queens medical malpractice lawyers on behalf of an elderly woman whose doctors failed to properly provide anticoagulation therapy following a hip surgery which resulted in an ischemic stroke leaving her partially paralyzed and unable to speak.
  • $2,750,000 settlement in Rockland County, NY,  for a 37-year-old man who died from sepsis after two radiologists failed to properly interpret abdominal CT scans showing internal organ torsion.
  • $2,750,000 wrongful death settlement for the family of a 76-year-old single woman whose death was caused by doctors' failure to diagnose toxic megacolon, leading to septic shock.
  • $2,700,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case claiming a failure to administer anti-coagulation medication to a 78 year old woman following surgery resulting in a stroke.
  • $2,500,000 settlement in Orange County for a 54-year-old woman who sustained a spinal accessory nerve injury during a lymph node biopsy. The injury remained unrecognized for months, necessitating additional surgery and leaving her permanently disabled.
  • $2,500,000 verdict for a woman who suffered a perforation of her dudodenum during an Upper Endoscopy performed in Queens, NYC
  • $2,500,000 verdict obtained by our gynecological malpractice lawyers in a Rockland County case in which a gynecologist transected a 68 year old woman's ureter resulting in the loss of a kidney.
  • $2,450,000 settlement in a medical malpractice for the family of a Westchester County man who died as a result of a medical group's malpractice in failing to timely diagnosis and treat his heart condition which led to a fatal heart attack.
  • $2,400,000 recovery on behalf of the widow of an unemployed 39 year old man who died after a Uvuloplasty when the nurse failed to follow the doctors instructions to properly monitor the patients oxygen saturation. The nurse claimed that the doctor's orders were unclear.
  • $2,300,000 settlement on behalf of a woman whose doctors failed to timely diagnose her breast cancer.
  • $2,300,000 settlement in a King County medical malpractice case for a 57-year-old woman who suffered multiple bowel perforations during gluteal augmentation surgery. Her surgeon ignored her postoperative symptoms until she developed septic shock, requiring multiple abdominal operations.
  • $2,300,000 settlement for a Nassau County woman whose 58-year-old husband died from an untreated bacterial infection. Emergency physicians failed to obtain an adequate history or perform a comprehensive examination, allowing the infection to progress and cause his death.
  • $2,250,000 settlement in an Erie County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to timely diagnose and treat acute gastrointestinal bleeding in a 60 year old man.
  • $2,250,000 settlement in a legal malpractice case for a man who hired a law firm to represent him in an action against his doctor for losing a kidney. The firm was negligent in their representation of their client and as a result of the lawyer's oversight, the medical malpractice case was dismissed.
  • $2,200,000 settlement for a man whose physician caused a one day delay in diagnosing a brain tumor.
  • $2,175,000 recovery on behalf of a man whose wife died because her doctors failed to diagnose her meningioma.
  • $2,125,000 verdict for the estate of a Kings County man who died of complications because of a dental procedure.
  • $2,150,000 settlement in Nassau County for a prostate cancer patient that developed a fistula after a radical prostatectomy.
  • 2,100,000 settlement for a who was injured during a robotic surgery for prostate cancer.
  • $2,500,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case for a woman whose physician failed to timely diagnose bladder cancer.
  • $2,000,000 settlement on behalf of a young man whose wife died due to negligent anesthesia care during a routine D & C.
  • $2,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case for a man who underwent unnecessary prostate cancer surgery.
  • $2,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case involving the failure to diagnose breast cancer .
  • $1,950,000 settlement for a man in a medical malpractice case stemming from a Mt. Sinai doctor's failure to diagnose bladder cancer.
  • $1,900,000 settlement in a Richmond County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to diagnose preeclampsia in a woman who suffered from cerebral bleeding a few days after giving birth.
  • $1,850,000 recovery in a New York medical malpractice case for the death of a single man for failure to diagnose malfunction of a ventricular peritoneal shunt.
  • $1,800,000 verdict in a medical malpractice case for a young boy who suffered an Erb's Palsy due to the doctor's negligence during delivery.
  • $1,750,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which doctors failure to diagnose colon cancer in a 67 year old man.
  • $1,750,000 settlement in a medical/dental malpractice case involving failure to prevent bacterial endocarditis.
  • $1,750,000 verdict in a medical malpractice case for a woman injured by a doctor's negligent placement of an aortobifemoral bypass graft causing injury to her bowel.
  • $1,700,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which am ophthalmologist failed to timely diagnose and treat a post-cataract surgery infection resulting in loss of vision in an eye.
  • $1,650,000 for a failure to diagnose influenza case in which our client developed life threatening Pneumonia and stayed at the hospital for nine weeks including an extensive stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The case study can be found at the bottom of our Flu Misdiagnosis page.
  • $1,600,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case involving the failure to take an adequate biopsy of a patient's ulcer and thereby failed to diagnose gastric cancer .
  • $1,600,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case in which a gynecologist failed to perform a prophylactic oophorectomy on a woman who developed ovarian cancer and who had suffered breast cancer and had a positive family history of ovarian cancer.
  • $1,600,000 recovery for a New York County 74-year-old woman whose lung cancer was undiagnosed but appeared in a routine chest x-ray.
  • $1,600,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case settlement for a child who suffered Erb's Palsy following negligent delivery by his mother's obstetrician.
  • $1,600,000 verdict for a young man with a severe congenital hearing loss whose doctors committed malpractice resulting in the loss of his remaining hearing.
  • $1,575,000 verdict on behalf of a woman whose doctors failed to make a timely diagnosis of her breast cancer.
  • $1,550,000 settlement in Rockland County for the daughter of a 66-year-old woman misdiagnosed with asthma rather than pulmonary embolism. The missed diagnosis prevented timely intervention and resulted in a fatal embolic event.
  • $1,450,000 settlement in an Ulster County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to timely diagnose a woman's breast cancer.
  • $1,450,000 settlement in a Dutchess County medical malpractice case in which doctors failed to timely diagnose breast cancer.
  • $1,350,000 verdict for a man who suffered loss of vision in one eye and decreased vision in the other eye as a result of his doctor's failure to treat proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
  • $1,300,000 settlement in a New York County hospital negligence case for the family of a 23-year-old woman who died during routine hospital treatment for a congenital condition. Medical staff failed to respond to cardiac monitor alerts of respiratory insufficiency, leading to a fatal pulmonary embolism.
  • $1,245,000 settlement for the adult children of a 63-year-old Brooklyn woman whose physician failed to biopsy a worsening vulvar lesion. The delay in diagnosis allowed carcinoma to metastasize, resulting in her premature death.
  • $1,270,000 verdict in Kings County, Brooklyn, NYC for a 64 year old woman whose spleen was torn from her colon during a colonoscopy.
  • $1,200,000 recovery on behalf of a middle aged man who suffered a bowel perforation during a colon resection at a major Manhattan hospital and required further surgery and a colostomy for a period of time.
  • $1,000,000 recovery in a New York medical malpractice case for failure to diagnose Crohn's Disease.
  • $1,000,000 settlement on behalf of a young boy whose doctors failed to diagnose an osteomyelitis infection of his hip.
  • $1,000,000 settlement on behalf of a man whose doctors failed to diagnose prostate cancer .
  • $1,000,000 settlement for a man who developed severe bed sores due to nursing home malpractice.
  • $1,000,000 settlement (insurance policy limits) on behalf of a man whose doctors failed to diagnose colon cancer.
  • $1,100,000 settlement obtained by our lung cancer misdiagnosis lawyers for the daughter of a 64-year-old Kings County woman whose lung lesion was identified but not timely evaluated. The delay permitted her curable cancer to advance to a metastatic stage, causing her death.
  • $1,000,000 settlement for a Queens County man whose 23-year-old wife died from sepsis following an unrecognized bowel perforation during a salpingectomy. The surgical injury went undiagnosed until overwhelming infection led to her death.
  • $1,000,000 (insurance policy limits) settlement for a woman whose doctors failed to properly reduce her fractured ankle.
  • $1,000,000 settlement in a Broome County medical malpractice case involving the failure to timely diagnose melanoma.
  • $1,000,000 settlement for the wrongful death of a delivery driver who died after the doctor ruptured one of the coronary arteries.
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