New Jersey trial attorney Adam Slater of the law firm Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC has obtained a $3.9 million medical malpractice settlement for a nurse who suffered severe complications, including extensive damage to her eye, resulting from negligently performed endoscopic sinus surgery, in Maria Kania v. Gangadhar S. Sreepada, M.D., Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Passaic County, Docket No. PAS-L-1384-08.

According to the facts of the case, the plaintiff was injured during the routine sinus surgery procedure, which was intended to clear sinusitis from the plaintiff’s maxillary sinus, when the surgeon instead operated in the ethmoid sinus, cut through the side of the orbit of the eye, known as the lamina papyracea, and then severed the medial rectus muscle, which stabilizes and moves the eye. The plaintiff underwent intensive surgical efforts to repair the damage, but the eye could not be fully repaired. She was left with permanent double vision, optic nerve and corneal injury, glaucoma, disfigurement, and chronic pain. In addition, the plaintiff was unable to continue her work as a nurse.

New Jersey trial attorney Adam Slater of the law firm Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC has obtained a $3.9 million medical malpractice settlement for a nurse who suffered severe complications, including extensive damage to her eye, resulting from negligently performed endoscopic sinus surgery, in Maria Kania v. Gangadhar S. Sreepada, M.D., Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Passaic County, Docket No. PAS-L-1384-08.

According to the facts of the case, the plaintiff was injured during the routine sinus surgery procedure, which was intended to clear sinusitis from the plaintiff’s maxillary sinus, when the surgeon instead operated in the ethmoid sinus, cut through the side of the orbit of the eye, known as the lamina papyracea, and then severed the medial rectus muscle, which stabilizes and moves the eye. The plaintiff underwent intensive surgical efforts to repair the damage, but the eye could not be fully repaired. She was left with permanent double vision, optic nerve and corneal injury, glaucoma, disfigurement, and chronic pain. In addition, the plaintiff was unable to continue her work as a nurse.

A thirty-one-year old contract worker fell 35 feet from a roof into an empty swimming pool. Apparently, parts of the metal roof gave way. OSHA is trying to ascertain the cause of this fatal fall. “Our sympathies to the family of the deceased”, states top Pennsylvania personal injury lawyer, Chris Lassen, Esquire, managing partner of the Lassen Law Firm, one of Pennsylvania’s leading  law firms, serving all of the United States. The Lassen Law Firm can sign you up over the phone, thus, it is not necessary to come to our office, if you are not close by.

The Lassen Law firm only deducts a mere 29% fee from the accident settlement, and the Lassen Law Firm never deducts a penny in costs. The Lassen Law Firm is a Pennsylvania personal injury law firm which deducts a mere 29% contingency fee, not the standard 45% like those other law firms.

The family of an Irvine woman who died after falling while ice skating at the Great Park has filed a $40 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Irvine, alleging that poor oversight of a temporary rink caused the fatal accident.

Attorney's for the family of Cherlynn Tang filed a lawsuit last week in Orange County Superior Court alleging that Great Park officials failed to properly design or maintain the temporary ice rink, neglected to implement safety rules and did not have emergency officials on hand to assist her after she fell. The accident occurred in February, while Tang was visiting the ice rink with her teenage children. While exiting the rink after a 45-minute session, Tang reportedly slipped, fell backward and struck her head. Orange County Fire Authority paramedics treated Tang at the scene before taking her to Western Medical Center, where she died two days later.

Jean Barnard had alleged that staff for the airline were negligent in not protecting her safety. The American tourist had boarded a plane in Alice Springs on a flight bound for Darwin. She sat at her assigned seat next to a three year old boy across the aisle. Without warning the boy leaned across his armrest and screamed at the top of his voice. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper is reporting that the scream had a severe effect on Ms Barnard and blood started to pour from her ears. She was helped off the plane and taken to Alice Springs hospital. The incident caused her severe pain and has left her with complete hearing loss. No other people were injured in the incident.

Since the incident in 2009, Ms Barnard has been involved in a lengthy compensation battle with Qantas seeking a damages settlement for her hearing loss, psychological trauma, loss of earnings and medical costs. Since the incident in 2009, Ms Barnard has been involved in a lengthy compensation battle with Qantas seeking a damages settlement for her hearing loss, psychological trauma, loss of earnings and medical costs. Her case revolved around the claim that Qantas staff failed to take precautions to prevent the accident happening. Qantas countered this by arguing that they cannot be held responsible for an unpredictable child, especially as he showed no signs of screaming at the terminal or on the plane before the screaming incident. They also argued that Ms Barnard’s hearing was damaged before the trip and that she wore hearing aids.

A new settlement has been reached among the parties in the thousands of cases alleging that people who responded to the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks and helped to clean up the debris sustained respiratory and other illnesses. Lawyers representing New York City and thousands of ground zero workers appeared before Southern District of New York Judge Alvin Hellerstein today to propose an increased settlement offer of $712.5 million that also sets a cap on legal fees.

The sides were forced back to the table in March after Hellerstein rejected a proposal that would have settled almost 10,000 cases. The original proposal called for $657 million to be paid to the plaintiffs from the World Trade Center Captive Insurance Co., which was funded with a $1 billion grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a way to help the city and its contractors purchase insurance for World Trade Center claims.