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$3,200,000 for legal malpractice committed by an upstate law firm against a Canadian citizen who had retained them to represent him for injuries sustained on a New York Thruway.

$1,375,000 settlement at mediation for an elderly Rhode Island couple who were injured when the rear deck of their newly constructed home collapsed due to faulty construction and contractor shortcuts. The plaintiff husband sustained serious leg injuries, while the wife sustained internal injuries.

$905,000 to the Estate of an elderly woman who died in an assisted living facility after suffering severe heat prostration, which led to her death. The facility performed improper mechanical work on her room’s heating system that caused the thermostat in her room to raise the temperature up to 130 degrees.

$400,000 resolution for a fractured distal radius requiring surgery after the plaintiff slipped and fell on a broken, ice-covered sidewalk in downtown Manhattan.

$300,000 result for a 24-year-old student, who, while attending a New Year’s Eve party, fell 11 feet over the railing of a sidewalk bridge and into an exterior basement pit. Plaintiff suffered cervical fractures with instability that required surgery and left residual nerve damage.

$280,000 settlement following jury selection for a Queens hardware store owner who fractured a disc in his neck when a snow-covered awning, that was the landlord’s responsibility, collapsed on top of him as he was closing his shop for the day.

$205,000 awarded to a paraplegic woman, who sustained second- and third-degree burns when she was provided with a heating pack to administer to her sore back while attending a camp in the Hamptons.

$165,000 to an Irish tourist who fell on a broken Manhattan sidewalk and fractured her dominant arm at the distal radius, requiring open reduction and internal fixation.

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