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For over 50 years, Barton Barton & Plotkin LLP has been helping people whose lives have been affected by injury or death as a result of someone elses negligence. Our attorneys have obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for our clients. We are dedicated to helping you, so call us now for a free consultation.

Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Cases
$26.2 million verdict in an automobile accident case for the death of a husband and father of three children and for serious injuries suffered by his wife.

$21 Million verdict for three children who suffered lead poisoning due to the presence of lead-based paint in their Bronx apartment.

$19.6 million verdict in a medical malpractice action in which a surgeon failed to properly monitor a female patient following gynecological surgery...

$11 million against a New York City hospital and obstetrician for failing to properly manage the pre-natal, birth and neonatal periods, resulting in brain damage and cerebral palsy...

$6.6 million verdict in the Court of Claims for a student at Brooklyn College who sustained second and third-degree thermal burns over 22% of his body when the clothing he was wearing caught on fire while he was using a welding torch during an independent study class.

$4.4 million for a 32-year-old male whose leg was amputated below the knee after being run over by a forklift.

$3.5 million with an anticipated total payment of more than $12 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit for a brain damaged baby.

$3.125 million against a New York City hospital for failing to properly monitor a five-month-old baby who was being treated for burns sustained from excessively hot water in his apartment...

$2.9 million verdict for a worker who was injured while working on a defective elevator, resulting in a crush injury to his heel.

$2.6 million settlement for a passenger in a 2 car accident who broke both of her legs.

$2.6 million settlement with an anticipated total payment of more than $3.75 Million in a car accident lawsuit for a young woman who suffered a broken leg and required surgery.

$2.5 million settlement for the failure to diagnose breast cancer which metastasized and eventually led to a woman's untimely and premature death.

$2.5 million for a 25-year-old male whose leg was amputated above the knee when his doctor failed to timely diagnose post-operative complications after a calf implant surgery.

$2.5 million settlement reached during trial in Supreme Court, Rockland County, for a male who suffered a fracture of his cribriform plate, a bone located in the head just below the brain, due to...

$2.26 million labor law verdict in Supreme Court, Bronx County in a lawsuit for a construction worker who fell from a scaffold and suffered a broken right leg and right elbow with surgery.

$2.2 million settlement for a child who suffered brain damage due to the hospital's failure to timely diagnose and treat the infant's medical condition.

$2 million settlement for a medical technician who was accidentally stuck by an improperly disposed needle that had previously been used on an HIV-positive patient; although this medical technician never developed the HIV virus...

$2 million verdict in Supreme Court, Kings County, for a 28-year-old female who was injured as a front seat passenger in a motor vehicle accident resulting in brain damage and multiple facial lacerations.

$2 million settlement for a labor law action after a man's right tibia was cut through by a saw at an unsafe worksite.

$1.975 million settlement for two children who sustained lead poisoning in a city apartment.

$1.9 million settlement for the wrongful death of a nine-year-old girl due to receiving a blood transfusion that was contaminated with the HIV virus in 1984, before blood testing for the HIV virus became available.

$1.6 million labor law settlement for a man who fell from a ladder at a dangerous construction site.

$1.5 million settlement for medical malpractice for an infant who was brain damaged as a result of an improperly monitored and performed delivery.

$1.5 million settlement for a man who was accidentally pricked by a needle containing the HIV virus but fortunately did not contract the virus himself.

$1.25 million settlement for a man who died from lung cancer after doctors failed to follow up for fifteen months on abnormalities reported on his chest x-rays.

$1.05 million verdict in an automobile accident for a pedestrian who was crossing a major roadway and was struck by a motor vehicle.

$1 million settlement for a woman whose breast cancer was diagnostically delayed due to a doctor ignoring a lump because the woman had just had breast implants.

$1 million for a man who had a traumatic, above the knee amputation of his left leg due to the defendants' negligence in failing to diagnose and treat an acute ischemic arterial occlusion of his left lower extremity...

$980,000 labor law settlement for a construction worker who fell from a scaffolding at a dangerous worksite.

$899,000 for a man whose nose had to be removed due to defendants' failure to timely and properly diagnose and treat his basal cell carcinoma.

$810,000 settlement for 8 year old boy who fell out of a 3rd floor window. No window guards were installed as required by law.

$800,000 settlement for a man who suffered a herniated disc after a motor vehicle accident.

$500,000 settlement for a labor law case in which a man fell in a trench at a construction site, resulting in two compressed herniated discs requiring surgical intervention.