Verdicts and Settlements

Verdicts and Settlements obtained by David A. Kapelman on behalf of clients include:*

• Recovery of $3.875 million in a Labor Law Section 240(1) case for a mechanical engineer who fell from a catwalk through an acoustical ceiling and sustained severe head injuries.
• $3,000,000 for worker severely burned at jobsite.
• $1.787 million for worker injured by a defective machine.
• $1.2 million for a laborer who fell from a scissor scaffold.
• A jury verdict of $1.1 million for a client who was struck by a vehicle that fell off a tow truck.
• A $1.05 million settlement on the day of jury selection for a pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle which mounted the sidewalk causing multiple fractures.
• A $1 million settlement, after summation at a 3 week long trial, on behalf of the head of personal security for a major rock band who was struck by a vehicle driven by the Mexican Secret Service while trying to prevent what he thought was an attempted kidnapping of the band. The defendants (the concert promoters) had offered $50,000 at the beginning of the trial.
• $950,000 for a construction worker struck by car at site
• Numerous recoveries for victims of rape and sexual assault, including a $900,000 settlement for a 7 year old boy who had been sodomized by another boy at camp.
• $900,000 for trip and fall injury on a sidewalk obstruction.
• Recovery of $900,000 in a result that established new case law in a Labor Law Section 241(6) case for a laborer who was injured when a 90 pound piece of ice fell from the roof of a power plant under construction in Plattsburgh, New York.
• An $850,000 settlement for an Erb’s Palsy victim.
• A $745,000 post trial award for a firefighter.
• $675,000 for construction worker who suffered electrical burns.
• A $625,000 settlement for a woman who was attacked by two dogs.
• $615,000 for child bitten by a dog.
• Numerous awards in lead paint poisoning cases, some of which settled for $575,000, $475,000, $425,000, $400,000, $390,000, $310,000, $300,000, $285,000 and other amounts.

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