Recent Cases
Frier Levitt has achieved substantial results on behalf of clients in personal injury, product liability, wrongful death and employment matters. In some cases, we are barred by Confidential Settlement Agreements from mentioning the names of our clients or the names of the defendants. However, we are permitted to reveal the types of claims and the amount of money we recovered by way of jury verdict or settlement.
- $1.5 million - Product liability settlement for failed Gear Selector Lever. Plaintiff placed the Japanese box truck’s gear selector lever in “Park” and exited the vehicle. The truck rolled despite being in “Park”, wedging plaintiff between two trucks, causing asphyxiation and death. We immediately went to court to have the truck impounded and preserved as evidence. After 15 months of complex product liability litigation, the Japanese truck manufacturer and its United States distributor agreed to pay the surviving spouse $1,500,000.
- $1.25 Million Arbitration Award - Automobile accident. Our client was injured when the defendant made an unsafe lane change, causing plaintiff’s truck to overturn onto its roof. Our client required multiple surgeries. In January 2007, we obtained a non-binding arbitration award for our client in the amount of $1,250,000.00.
- $735,000 – Sexual assault and negligent hiring, supervision and retention. On the day of trial the governmental defendants finally agreed to pay on our claims that a government employee sexually assaulted our clients under the guise of “medical treatment”.
- $500,000 Award– Wrongful death. Frier Levitt obtained a $500,000 judgment against a man who killed our client after being served alcohol by a tavern while he was visibly intoxicated. Frier Levitt also reached a confidential settlement with the bar that served him.
- $425,000 – Pedestrian struck by van. Our client underwent extensive neck surgery after he was struck by a van as he crossed the street. The defendants argued that our client had degenerative disc disease which was the cause of the surgery. The client had no lost wages.
- $372,000.00 Automobile Accident, Failure to control traffic at construction zone. Katelyn Malik was a passenger in car driven by her sister in Cream Ridge, New Jersey. Two different flagmen from MECO Construction Company motioned Samantha to continue through the intersection and they were broadsided by a state Transportation Department van. Katelyn suffered a degloving injury to her right hip, needed surgery, has a scar and indentation. Prior to trial, settlement was made with MECO for $265,000.00, State of New Jersey for $12,000.00 and $95,000.00 from Samantha Malik’s carrier.
- $350,000 – Wrongful death of passenger in one vehicle accident. Our client’s husband was a passenger in a vehicle that crashed into a tree. He survived the crash but died after surgery for his injuries.
- $332,500 - Automobile accident. Our client, J.T. was injured in an automobile accident and suffered a low back injury. L.T. underwent a lumbar laminectomy. During jury selection at trial, the defendants offered and plaintiffs accepted the sum of $332,500.00.
- $300,000 – Pedestrian hit and run accident. In a hit and run accident, our client was required to look to her own motor vehicle insurance policy for Uninsured motorist benefits.
- $300,000 – Motor vehicle settlement. We quickly settled a motor vehicle accident with the tortfeasor for his $50,000 limits and then recovered an additional $250,000 which represented our client’s Underinsured Motorist limits.
- $295,000 – Payment of full policy limits for third-degree burns. Our client was working in a parked hot dog truck, when two vehicles collided into the truck causing the boiling water to scorch our client. Plaintiff sustained second and third degree burns. We were able to recover $295,000 of the $300,000 available insurance.
- $280,000 – Wrongful death of prisoner. No law firm would take this case, referred to us by another lawyer. We saw a case where most did not. A female prisoner’s medical needs were disregarded resulting in her untimely death. Her complaints and medical condition were ignored, and the employees did not know how to operate the prison’s electronically controlled gates, resulting in a delay of medical treatment.
- $262,500 – Rear end motor vehicle accident. The defendant was a young drier that drove her car directly in the rear end of our client’s car. Our client sustained neck injuries that required one surgery. The settlement did not contain an allocation for lost wages, as the client obtained a separate Workers Compensation recovery.
- $247,000 – Car strikes bicyclist in “hit and run” accident. Our client was riding his bicycle when he was struck by a car that fled the scene.
- $150,000 – Defective condition of property. Defendants negligently designed, manufactured, installed and repaired a defective window that resulted in the free-fall of the window onto our client’s hand.
- $126,000 – Personal Injury Verdict. In the Winter of 2001, one of our clients was walking in the parking lot of an Atlantic City Casino. Her left ankle was caught in a 1/2" to 1/8" depression, causing her to trip and fall. The Casino took a "no pay" position until after we presented all evidence at trial in April 2003. We brought into court a poster-board sized blow up of an internal casino memo stating that the parking lot posed a "tripping hazard". Nevertheless, the Casino argued that the accident was our client’s fault. The jury disagreed and returned a verdict of $126,000.00. The defendants did not appeal.
- $125,000 – Personal injury award. Plaintiff was struck by a vehicle as he was crossing the street. He sustained an injury to his knee and underwent arthroscopic surgery and made a good recovery.
- $120,000 - Jury verdict for pedestrian struck in parking lot. A jury returned a verdict in favor of our client who sustained a wrist fracture. The insurance company made a very low pre-trial settlement offer, so we tried this case to a jury.
- $100,000 – Chemical burn at hair salon. While having her hair highlighted, our client sustained a scalp burn.
- $100,000 – Home Health Aide negligence. Our client, S.B. who was handicapped and confined to a wheelchair since birth, was severely injured when his Home Health Aide, negligently transferred him out of his wheelchair. He sustained a displaced femur fracture requiring two operations with the insertion of a metal rod. We achieved a pre-trial settlement for our client in the amount of $100,000.00.
- $92,500 – Pedestrian struck by taxi. Our client, Anita Korsonsky, was a pedestrian struck and injured by a motor vehicle in April 2005. We obtained a settlement for our client at the first court conference in November 2005 in the amount of $92,500.00.