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.
$1.5 Million
$1.5 million for the family of a Long Island mother, whose ovarian cancer progressed to a terminal stage due to a Manhattan hospital’s failure to properly treat the disease after Stage 1 ovarian cancer was found following a hysterectomy. Two years later, when the cancer was found, it had developed to Stage 4 and led to the plaintiff’s untimely death at 60 years of age.
$1.5 Million
$1.5 million medical malpractice settlement for a woman who lost her eyesight following complications from surgery. The defendant doctor failed to promptly see his patient, despite complaints of severe burning and redness. By the time he examined her, the damage was done and her eyesight was permanently lost.
$1.425 Million
$1.425 million verdict in a products liability case, whereby a high school teacher was seriously injured while using a home exercise device that hooks into any doorframe and allows a person to perform pull-ups and sit-ups using their own body weight. The accident happened when the device unhooked from the frame, as the plaintiff was doing reverse crunches, causing the plaintiff to land on his head and fracture a vertebrae in his neck. He underwent spinal fusion to insert a cage, which left him with mild numbness in his hands. The company was Chinese-based, so we sued and collected from the U.S. product distributor.
$1.375 Million
$1.375 million awarded to an elderly Rhode Island couple who sued their condominium association 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.
$1.35 Million
$1.35 million paid to a 35-year-old Queens mother of three, who sustained multiple cervical herniations requiring decompressive laminotomy/facetectomy after her car was struck by a driver who ran a red light. The patient was left with a permanent range of motion problems in her neck. All bills were paid by no-fault insurance.
$1.3 Million
$1.3 million settlement during a medical malpractice trial for an infant that suffered a brachial plexus injury during delivery because the doctors failed to properly estimate the fetal weight and consider a Caesarian section. The baby then got stuck in the birth canal during birth, which necessitated excessive pulling on the infant’s head and right arm with forceps. As a result, the baby suffered minor paralysis in certain arm muscles and required several years of physical therapy.
$1.25 Million
$1.25 million settlement on the eve of Arbitration for this 31-year-old man Westchester, who was a passenger in a Ride-Share vehicle that was violently struck by another vehicle in Yonkers. The plaintiff suffered serious neck and back injuries that led to an anterior cervical disc excision and fusion at C3-4, C4-5 and C-6 with interbody fusion using. allograft bone at C3-4, C4-5 and C5-6 and a decompressive laminectomy of the thoracic spine at T5, T6, T7, T8 and T9 with decompression of the spinal cord as well as posterior instrumentation of the thoracic spine from T5 through T9 with bone grafting for fusion. After collecting the entire $100,000 policy from the offending vehicle, we went after the host vehicle’s underinsurance (SUM) policy, collecting the remaining available value of $1,150,000.
$1.24 Million
$1.24 million awarded to a 5-year-old girl residing in Section 8 Housing who suffered cognitive deficits from lead paint poisoning that occurred after several years of ingesting paint chips that flaked off the radiator, window sills and walls. Following an infant compromise hearing, the money was placed in a structured settlement, to protect the money and to provide monthly payments over the course of her adult life.
$1.05 Million
$1.05 million verdict for a Queens packaging manager who fell off a commercial roof while shoveling, due to icy conditions and a missing parapet wall. The plaintiff suffered a fractured coccyx, a fractured sacrum and a comminuted right calcaneal fracture which required open reduction and internal fixation, as well as a second surgery to remove the hardware.
$1 Million
$1 million tendering of the defendant’s insurance policy for a woman struck and run over by a tractor-trailer. The plaintiff sustained multiple fractures to her sacrum, pubic rami, tibia and fibula and a degloving of a portion of her leg. She required multiple surgeries, including bone graft surgery, open reduction internal fixation and debridement.
$1 Million
$1 million insurance policy issued to a 13 year old Westchester boy, who was run over by a car while he was on his bicycle. The plaintiff sustained pelvic and sacral fractures from one of the car tires running over his mid-section. He also suffered a complete urethral transection and bladder neck disruption, requiring him to undergo two surgeries and be catheterized for 10 months, during which time he needed to be home schooled. Due to the limited amount of insurance, we arranged that the money be placed in a structured settlement, and it is anticipated that, as a result, the plaintiff will be paid more than $4.3 million over the course of his lifetime.
$980,000
$980,000 to the estate of a woman stabbed to death by an ex-boyfriend at the hospital where she worked. We sued the security company and hospital arguing that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable security measures, as the assailant had been involved in other incidents at the hospital and had been loitering on the premises just before the event.
$966,000
$966,000 verdict on behalf of a New York taxi driver who, during abdominal surgery, suffered a brachial plexus injury in his dominant arm due to a mal-positioning of his arm during surgery. The plaintiff already had a substantial disability in his right arm due to childhood polio.
$927,500
$927,500 to a Broadway actor who was struck by an Access-A-Ride bus. The plaintiff, who had a complicated medical history, reinjured a surgically repaired cervical fusion and also reinjured an already damaged hip, requiring hip replacement surgery. Our team argued that, based on a jury instruction called “special talent,” the plaintiff’s career would have skyrocketed had the accident not occurred.
$905,000
$905,000 verdict awarded to the estate of an elderly woman who died in an assisted living facility. The victim died after suffering severe heat prostration when the facility did improper mechanical work on her room’s heating system. Their negligence caused the thermostat in her room to raise to a temperature of 130 degrees, leading to the victim’s distress and ultimate death.
$900,000
$900,000 for an 81-year-old man, who fell from a raised and unmarked platform floor, and fractured his hip while attending a wedding in a commercial Manhattan loft space. In contradicting the defendant’s argument that the raised platform was safe for patrons, plaintiff retained an expert engineer who opined that the raised floor was built without proper permits from the New York City Department of Buildings and did not comply with New York City Building Codes which required handrails that could have prevented the accident.
