Results
Welcome to the Results page of Sakkas, Cahn & Weiss, LLP, where excellence in litigation meets unparalleled client service. Our firm takes pride in not just representing, but championing the causes of those who seek justice. Here, we showcase a selection of our significant settlements and verdicts, illustrating our commitment to securing outstanding outcomes for our clients.
At Sakkas, Cahn & Weiss, LLP, we believe in making a difference—one case at a time. Our legal team combines in-depth legal knowledge, sharp negotiation skills, and a passionate advocacy to ensure that each client’s rights are fully represented. Whether it’s a complex personal injury case, a challenging medical malpractice lawsuit, or any legal battle in between, our track record speaks volumes of our dedication and success.
The cases highlighted on this page are a testament to our strategic approach and our relentless pursuit of justice. Each settlement and verdict represent not just financial compensation, but a closure and a step forward for our clients. We are honored to have been able to make such a significant impact in their lives.
$215,000
$215,000 for a Federal Express employee chased from a home at which he was delivering a package by a pit bull. The worker sustained bites on his hands and legs and after the insurance carrier refused payment, the owner of the dog, an NFL player, paid from his own pocket.
$205,000
$205,000 awarded before trial to a 14 year old girl that sustained burns from a heating pad while attending a summer camp for kids with disabilities. The plaintiff suffered paraplegia from a prior accident and had reduced sensation in her lower body. The facility placed heating pads on the infant’s lower due to low back pain and then left her unsupervised. The plaintiff fell asleep and awoke to a 2 cm x 3 cm third degree elliptical burn.
$205,000
$205,000 for a 68-year-old man who tripped and fell. The victim’s fall was attributed to a pothole in a Queens parking lot. As a result of the fall, the victim sustained a rotator cuff tear that required surgery to repair.
$205,000
$205,000 awarded to a Bronx woman who sustained a rotator cuff injury when the elevator in which she was riding misleveled 17 inches higher than the hallway, causing her to step out into mid-air and fall.
$200,000
$200,000 awarded to a 60 year old woman who slipped on ice in her building lobby. The water came from a water pipe that had frozen and cracked when an empty apartment in the building with a cracked window allowed cold winter air to decrease the temperature to freezing.
$200,000
$200,000 for a woman injured at a New York City restaurant when a door stopper inside the front entrance and missing its rubber edge, caught on the plaintiff’s ankle. The plaintiff required 14 sutures and developed an infection, which required a 3 day hospital admission.
$200,000
$200,000 policy limits awarded to the family of an 86-year-old New Jersey man who was killed when a truck struck his vehicle.
$200,000
$200,000 awarded to this Nassau County products liability victim, when the defective table saw he was using malfunctioned and partially amputated the tips of three fingers, requiring surgery to reattach the tips and physical therapy to learn how to use the hand again.
$195,000
$195,000 award from a homeowner’s insurance policy for a 25-year-old man. The plaintiff, who had his jaw fractured and wired when a neighbor punched him, argued that the action was not an assault (which would not be covered under a homeowners insurance policy) but rather the unintentional result of an intentional act.
$185,000
$185,000 for an Israeli man who was visiting a cousin in Brooklyn. The cousin had renovated the basement to his home without assistance, and in doing so created a dangerous stairwell with unequal risers that created tripping hazards. The plaintiff fell down the stairs and sustained bimalleolar fracture that required surgery.
$185,000
$185,000 awarded to three family members who were injured when their parked car was rear-ended by a drunk driver. Each of the plaintiffs suffered soft tissue injuries, specifically bulging and herniated discs in the cervical and lumbar regions..
$176,000
$176,000 award for 45-year-old woman who slipped on the exterior stairs of a New York brownstone. The victim suffered a torn rotator cuff and lumbar herniation, which required a discectomy. At trial, a retained engineer demonstrated the stairs lacked the proper coefficient of friction and thus became slippery when damp, posing a safety risk.
$175,000
$175,000 paid to the Estate of a woman who died after she developed a Stage IV bedsores at the nursing home in which she was a resident. Plaintiff was admitted to the facility at 75 years of age due to dementia, hypertension and vascular disease. The staff failed to alter the plaintiff’s position in bed, didn’t regularly clean the patient and didn’t always promptly remove the full bedpan.
$175,000
$175,000 awarded to the plaintiff in a Labor Law 241(6) when he was working as a sub-contractor in the 2nd Avenue subway project and lost his footing, sustaining a meniscal tear. Plaintiff argued that the General Contractor failed to provide proper safety equipment to prevent accidents of this nature.
$170,000
$170,000 to a young military veteran who was a passenger in a car when the driver lost control and hit a stone pillar, causing the plaintiff to sustain a large laceration on his forehead that required two surgeries to correct.
$170,000
$170,000 awarded to a retired magazine editor who suffered a fractured scapula, when he was struck by a taxi as he jaywalked across a Manhattan street. The taxi passenger issued an affidavit that the driver must not have seen the pedestrian as he did not stop until seconds after striking the victim.
$170,000
$170,000 settlement at mediation for a 50 year old man thrown from a horse at the Jamaica Bay Riding Academy when the animal broke into a gallop. Plaintiff suffered an intra-articular distal radius fracture in his non-dominant arm that required surgery. Plaintiff was a novice rider and had explained to the guide that the horse seemed agitated and was not responding. The guide told plaintiff he would be fine and took no steps to examine the horse. We retained a horse expert that explained the horse was agitated due to his grazing muzzle which was ill-fitting and which impairs the horses breathing. Defendant argued the rider “assumes the risk” when partaking in a dangerous activity, to which we responded that plaintiff does not assume the risk of negligent conduct on behalf of the staff.
$165,000
$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.
$165,000
$165,000 for a woman injured in an auto accident when another car ran a red light. The plaintiff suffered partial tears of her right rotator cuff and long head of the biceps. She underwent a debridement and acromioplasty of said shoulder, and thereafter developed capsulitis, requiring a second procedure to clean out the adhesive scar tissue.
$160,000
$160,000 in damages awarded to a legally blind woman in Brooklyn, who fell over an open trap door on the sidewalk after leaving a delicatessen, fracturing her forearm.
$157,500 mediation result for a traumatic brain injury suffered by a 60-year-old woman when she was involved in a two-car collision.
$155,000
$155,000 awarded to a teenaged Bronx girl when the door to her family’s New York City Housing Authority apartment abruptly closed on her middle finger due to a defective hinge, amputating the tip of said finger. In addition to the finger being shortened, the young woman argued psychological damages based on the embarrassment she feels when people look at her hand.
$150,000
$150,000 arbitration award for a 45 year old man whose vehicle was rear ended on the FDR in Manhattan and suffered substantial soft tissue injuries that prevented him from returning to work. Plaintiff had a history of severe pre-existing injuries to his shoulder and back from an accident several years earlier.
$150,000
$150,000 resolution for a 2017 slip and fall on ice. The plaintiff, a 55 year old and former college basketball player, was walking eastbound on 45th Street on a cold winter day, when he saw a person face down on a driveway apron that separated the sidewalk from the street and led to a parking garage. He believed they had suffered a heart attack and attempted to come to the person’s aide when he slipped and fell (as had the other person) on a thin layer of ice, and suffered a tri-malleolar fracture (a fracture in your lower leg sections – the tibia, fibula and talus – that form your ankle joint and help you move your foot and ankle). Typically, this type of fracture requires a complicated surgery, but in this rare case, the plaintiff was casted and made a strong recovery, although he suffers some swelling, pain and distance limitations. We argued the building owner and garage both had a duty to anticipate weather conditions and place sand and salt down, which nobody did.
$150,000
$150,000 from the makers of a U.S. car manufacturer for a 68-year-old woman whose hand became trapped in the trunk of her car when she pressed the automatic shut button. Plaintiff fractured several fingers and remained trapped for two hours until she was discovered.
$150,000
$150,000 awarded to a 70-year-old man, who was run over by a young woman who was speeding in her father’s car while using her cellphone and failed to see the plaintiff crossing at the crosswalk. The victim suffered severe head injuries and died later that day of an intracranial hemorrhage. The insurance company tendered their $100,000 policy and the defendant and her father paid an additional $50,000 out of their personal assets to resolve the matter
$145,000
$145,000 awarded to an advertising executive for a laceration to his non-dominant hand that caused tendon damage and required surgery. The man was taking a work break and dining out with co-workers at a New York City restaurant in the Theater District. When he went to the bathroom to wash his hand, he gently leaned on the edge of the sink and the entire sink, along with the plaintiff crashed to the floor, causing the sink to explode and sharp porcelain shards to cut the plaintiff’s hand.
$143,000
$143,000 postal worker on the Upper West Side of Manhattan was assaulted by a young man after the postal employee tried to prevent the man from stealing mail out of his ex-girlfriend’s mailbox. The plaintiff had a finger on his dominant hand fractured and dislocated and missed several months from work.
$140,000
$140,000 awarded to a client struck by an unsecured tent, which resulted in fractures to her right hip as well as fractures to her third, fourth and fifth metatarsals of the right foot.
$140,000
$140,000 awarded to a 65-year-old Chelsea resident who tripped and fell over a basket of CDs at Tower Records, fracturing his hip. It was argued that the store was aware that customers would leave their baskets in dangerous positions and that personnel should have monitored the aisles more closely.
$140,000
$140,000 was awarded to a Harlem man who tripped over a raised sidewalk flag and suffered a dislocated shoulder. Doctors tried unsuccessfully to perform a closed reduction to get the shoulder back into position. Thereafter, they tried a closed reduction under traction, again without success. Finally, they performed surgery (Bankart repair/anterior capsulography) to reposition the shoulder and counter the instability.
$139,000
$139,000 for an elderly Manhattan woman who was being transported by ambulance when the vehicle had an accident. The patient sustained a laceration which later became infected. The infection took more than two months to heal and left a 4-inch keloid scar on her leg.
$135,000
$135,000 for a 50-year-old Haitian male who tore his right labrum and rotator cuff when he fell down the stairs of his Brooklyn apartment after losing his balance. We argued that the steps were all different heights and that the stairs had no handrail for him to grab onto to prevent his fall.
$132,500
$132,500 for a 32-year-old man who was stripping and applying polyurethane to hard wood floors in a Queens apartment building. The superintendent failed to turn off the pilot light for the kitchen stove before the work began on the floor. As a result, the highly flammable materials ignited, burning the young man’s clothes and leaving him with first- and second-degree burns on his arms and face.
$125,000
$125,000 to New York woman who was sexually assaulted by an employee of a medical clinic who presented himself as a doctor and then proceeded to conduct a breast exam, which he was not authorized to do. We sued the medical clinic on the grounds that the clinic employee’s supervisors did not properly monitor his activities and that they knew, or should have known, of his propensity to engage in this inappropriate behavior.
$125,000
$125,000 settled midway through trial. Allegations were that the plaintiff, a 36-year-old female passenger in a two-car Bronx collision, sustained bilateral meniscal tears in her knees and chondromalacia when she struck her knees on the dashboard of the car. The plaintiff underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair each knee and her doctor opined that she would require knee replacement surgery on both knees at some point in the future.
$125,000
$125,000 for a 10-year-old student who was injured in her gym class playing dodge ball, when another student fell upon her hand resulting in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy “RSD”. Our theory against the private school was that they had too many gym participants, creating a dangerous situation of overcrowding.
$125,000
$125,000 to a 30-year-old woman who suffered a partially torn rotator cuff and glenoid labrum, requiring surgery, when a car ran a stop sign and plowed into her automobile.
$125,000
$125,000 settlement for a man who sued the New York City Police Department. The police answered a call for disorderly conduct at a Manhattan hotel but, upon their arrival, found the altercation had been resolved. Thereafter, the police pulled the victim out of his hotel room in his pajamas, cuffed him and needlessly swept his leg, causing a comminuted tibial fracture that required surgery to install a rod. Surveillance video showed the victim posed no threat at the time the police broke his leg.
$120,000
$120,000 for a male passenger in an automobile, who was not wearing a seat belt and smacked his face on the dashboard of the car. The plaintiff suffered an orbital fracture, leading to blurry vision for several months, as well as herniations and bulges. The value of the case was lowered because the defendants argued the seat belt defense to demonstrate that if the plaintiff had worn his belt, the injuries would have likely been avoided.
$117,500
$117,500 for a 28-year-old woman, whose car was struck at an intersection by another car that ran a stop sign. The victim suffered impingement syndrome in her left shoulder and required two surgeries after the first surgery proved unsuccessful.
$115,000
$115,000 this is an MVA venued in Suffolk County involving a 43 y.o. woman with good liability who underwent shoulder surgery for a partial rotator cuff tear and had 2 fluoroscopically guided steroidal injections for bulges and herniations in her lumbar & cervical spine.
$115,000
$115,000 for a 15 year-old Bronx girl who alleged that while in a YMCA after school program at her high school, she was forced to perform oral sex on a 19 year old male in the girl’s locker room. The defendants argued the act was consensual, but we responded that a minor can not consent and that the program’s failure to properly supervise the students and keep outsiders out of the school was the proximate cause of the attack.
$100,000
$100,000 awarded to a Kings County woman who fell in the outdoor courtyard of her apartment complex. As a result of her fall, the victim sustained lumbar and cervical disc injuries, as well as a tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus in her right knee. The plaintiff argued that a drain in the courtyard that was partially blocked had accumulated water for years, resulting in a mossy growth that led to slippery conditions.
$100,000
$100,000 policy award to a man who was struck by a taxi cab as he crossed a Manhattan street. The victim sustained a severe head injury as a result of the late-night accident.
$100,000
$100,000 for a 50-year-old man pinned against his own car as he attempted to retrieve something from his trunk, when an out-of-control motorist crashed into him. The plaintiff suffered fractured legs with surgery but unfortunately there was only $100,000 available in insurance. An asset search on the defendant turned up only $2,800 in savings, and no property.
$100,000
$100,000 paid to a Brooklyn cyclist who was traveling west on a one-way eastbound street and was struck by a car when the driver didn’t see him. The driver argued he wasn’t looking for someone to come from the opposite direction, but photographs showed the driver had a very wide view and had he been looking at the road, he would have seen the cyclist. The plaintiff suffered herniated discs in his neck and underwent a discectomy.
$100,000
$100,000 for a woman who was entering a New York taxi cab, after another passenger got out. The driver failed to realize the passenger was entering and pulled away, causing her to fall out of the taxi, land on the street and have her leg run over and broken.
$100,000
$100,000 resolution for a 25-year-old man that was a passenger in a car that was struck by a phantom vehicle that left the scene. The client underwent a right wrist arthroscopy and was awarded the underinsured motorist coverage that was provided by the insurance carrier for the vehicle he was in.
$90,000
$90,000 verdict for two hotel employees who suffered injuries resulting from an elevator accident. The two victims suffered soft tissue injuries when a freight elevator on which they were riding suddenly dropped.
$85,000
$85,000 verdict for a flight attendant who a drunk passenger assaulted during the course of a flight. The victim suffered post-traumatic stress as a result of the incident.
$75,000
$75,000 for a young woman walking down the stairs in a Queens hotel, when she slipped on laundry bags that were piled up on said stairs. The victim twisted her foot, fracturing a bone. She was casted and lost several months from work as a result.
