Exceptional Results for Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice
Civil Court Case Results
PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE INJURED – CIVIL LITIGATION
Mr. Ferri personally litigated the following matters:
$2,750,000 awarded by a Nassau County jury to a Garden City Police Officer who was injured in a motor vehicle accident while responding to a domestic disturbance call. His injuries required spinal surgery. The insurance company offered zero and claimed the police officer caused his own motor vehicle to crash.
$1,500,000.00 recovered from the City of New York to a truck driver who was in a motor vehicle accident, struck a support column on highway underneath train tracks in Rockaway Freeway. Rockaway Freeway was an antiquated roadway with two- phase traffic signals (green and red only). Mr. Ferri argued that the antiquated traffic signal caused a car and the oil truck to enter the intersection at the same time. After removing the trapped truck driver from the truck, the EMT/FDNY was found negligent in failing to transport the truck driver to a trauma center.
$1,200,000.00 awarded by a Queen’s County jury to a laborer whose unattended, unsecured ladder slid out from under him, while he was drilling a hole in a wall.
$1,200,000.00 awarded by a Queen’s County to a driver whose motor vehicle was struck in the rear. The driver suffered a single herniated disc, that was conservatively treated and did not require surgery
$1,075,000.00 recovered by a civil engineer who was injured at a jobsite from a fall from a ladder inside a waste treatment plant owned by the City of Geneva.
$1,000,000.00 recovered by a police lieutenant whose automobile was struck from behind by a tractor trailer while driving on the Throgs Neck Bridge. His injuries required a cervical discectomy, and resulted in early retirement from the police force.
$950,000.00 recovered by plaintiff whose car was struck in the rear while stopped at a stop sign. The injuries to his lower back eventually required a four-level lumbar laminectomy
$940,000 recovered by a schoolgirl, who was struck by a van while crossing York Ave. at East 74th street. The schoolgirl suffered orbital roof fracture,
$800,000 recovered by the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case from a doctor for failing to timely diagnose her lung cancer. The doctor failed to follow-up on suspicious findings in a lung x-ray, and CT scans.
$750,000.00 recovered by the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case who suffered a perforated bladder and lacerated urinary sphincter during transurethral resection of prostate,
$697,358.11 awarded by a Nassau County jury jury to plaintiff after she suffered nerve damage to her entire right thigh and leg after a negligent intramuscular injection of Demerol by a nurse which resulted in meralgia paresthetica.
$475,000 recovered by plaintiff who suffered a wrist fracture when struck by a defendant at an intersection with a malfunctioninf traffic light. Both drivers are claiming they had the green light.
$450,000 recovered by a worker injured on a jobsite. The worker, a carpenter tripped and fell on stray piping left in a passageway used by the trades at the jobsite.
$400,000 recovered for a family in a wrongful death action. A grandfather, walked his granddaughter to school. While returning home he was struck by a van while crossing Hempstead Turnpike and died at the hospital shortly thereafter.
$310,000 recovered by plaintiff who was a pedestrian who suffered a rotator cuff tear and disc bulges as a result of the accident
$300,000 recovered by plaintiff who tripped and fell in front of a bank in Brooklyn due to a raised sidewalk slab.
$300,000 recovered by plaintiff who fell down a defective staircase. Plaintiff suffered a herniated disc in his back and a left shoulder tear. Both injuries eventually required surgery.
$290,000 recovered by plaintiff who tripped and fell at a broken curb. Plaintiff suffered a broken ankle which required surgery.
$285,000 recovered by plaintiff who was stuck by a car, while standing on the side of Route 106 in Muttontown. Plaintiff suffered multiple foot fractures and a knee fracture.
$250,000 was awarded by a Brooklyn jury to a worker who was a passenger in a motor vehicle that was struck in the rear. She suffered herniated discs.
$250,000 recovered from the City when plaintiff who, while riding his motorcycle, suffered left radial shaft fracture requiring ORIF when he hit a pothole on the Bruckner Expressway.
$250,000 recovered by plaintiff, a truck driver, injured in a motor vehicle crash on the NYS Thruway in Tuxedo, NY. The truck driver was forced off the road and over an embankment. He suffered a scapula fracture, four fractures of the transverse process and multiple rib fractures.