Here are some of our recent results:

$2.0 million for failure to properly diagnose and treat breast cancer

Flanzig and Flanzig obtained a $2,000,000.00 settlement on the fifth day of trial in a medical malpractice action. The claim was based upon the doctor’s failure to properly diagnose and treat our client’s breast cancer. The failure to timely diagnose the patient significantly reduced the ability to successfully treat and cure the cancer. The settlement was reached during the trial, after the trial Judge determined that the defendant physician committed medical malpractice as “a matter of law.”

1.3 million for victim of September 11th attack at the World Trade Center

Daniel Flanzig obtained the above result for the family of a rescue worker killed on September 11th in World Trade Center attack. As a member of the Trial Lawyers Care program, Flanzig and Flanzig volunteered its efforts to represent the victim pro bono. More than 1,000 members of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America have volunteered to help the families of victims of the Sept. 11th. It is the largest pro bono effort their profession has ever undertaken.

$1.3 million for a wrongful death in an auto accident

Daniel Flanzig won a $1.3 million verdict from a Kings County, Supreme Court jury in a case involving the death of a 76 year old woman killed as a result of an automobile accident.
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$700,000.00 for a 51 year old salesman who suffered cervical injuries in a car accident

Daniel Flanzig obtained a $700,000.00 recovery for a 51 year old man who suffered a cervical spine injury requiring surgery as a result of an automobile accident that occurred on the Belt Parkway in Queens, New York. The settlement was reached during the second day of the liability trial in the Supreme Court, Queens County.

$350,000.00 recovery for Local 3 Electrician injured in Construction accident

Daniel Flanzig obtained a $350,000.00 settlement during trial before a New York County jury for a 29 year old IBEW Local 3 electrician who sustained a ACL tear requiring surgery. The client was injured while working at a construction project in Manhattan when he fell down stairs due to debris left by a subcontractor on the job site in violation of multiple New York State construction regulations.

$320,000 recovery for Women hit by Drunk Driver who had just left a local Club

Daniel Flanzig obtained a $320,000 recovery for a 32 year old mother who was hit by a Drunk Driver after the intoxicated driver had just left a local club. After obtaining an offer of the full policy limits of the drivers insurance policy, the firm commenced an action against the bar alleging that they served the visibly intoxicated patron who caused the accident. The firm was able to obtain the recovery by proving through the police investigation as well as an expert toxicologist, that the club should have been aware that the patron was intoxicated when they continued to serve him alcoholic beverages.

$320,000 recovery for an older couple in an auto accident

Daniel Flanzig obtained a $260,000 recovery for a 66 year old woman and a $60,000 recovery for her 68 year old husband who were involved in an auto accident with a truck driver in Queens, New York.  The husband was operating the vehicle in which his wife was a passenger.  The settlement took place immediately before a jury was to be selected in Supreme Court, Bronx County.

$300,000.00 recovery for pedestrian struck while walking on sidewalk

Flanzig and Flanzig obtained a $300,000.00 recovery for a 52 year old man who was struck by a vehicle exiting a parking lot on Glen Cove Road in Nassau County New York. The pedestrian suffered a fractured leg and a lumbar herniated disc. The settlement was reached just prior to jury selection in the Supreme Court, Nassau County.

$300,000  recovery for  young woman sexually assaulted while a patient on a New York City Ambulance

A resolution of a 1999 lawsuit against the City of New York was recently reached stemming from a sexual assault that occurred to a young female while she was a patient aboard a FDNY ambulance. The woman was being transported to the hospital after collapsing due to a Migraine Headache at LaGuardia Airport while she was attempting to return home to Texas. Daniel Flanzig obtained the result for our client just prior to trial in the Supreme Court, Queens County. An extensive background search conducted by investigators associated with Flanzig and Flanzig revealed prior misconduct by the EMT which was reported to his supervisors and which the city failed to properly investigate. Click here for more information.

$275,000 settlement for woman suffering from MS

A $275,000 settlement was awarded to a woman whose non-symptomatic multiple sclerosis resurfaced due to injuries she sustained in an automobile accident.  This unusual theory was successfully argued by Daniel Flanzig before a mediator, despite contradictory medical theories that state that MS is not aggravated or caused by trauma.

$250,000 settlement in significant automobile accident

Flanzig and Flanzig obtained a settlement for two women who were passengers in a vehicle involved in a significant automobile accident. The operator of the vehicle alleged that her brakes failed, causing her to drive into the rear of a stopped tractor trailer. Through the use of an expert engineer that Flanzig and Flanzig dispatched to Indiana (the site of the accident), we were able to prove that the brakes operated properly and the sole cause of the accident was the defendant operator’s negligence. The settlement was obtained prior to jury selection in the Supreme Court, Queens County.

$250,000 recovery for a New York City Firefighter

A large recovery was obtained for a 41 year old New York City Fire Department Lieutenant who was injured in the line of duty.  The firefighter sustained second-and third-degrees burns to his head, ears and hand during a fire that started as a result of negligence of the property owner.  A bug defogger had been placed next to an open pilot light in the owner's restaurant.  The case settled after a jury had been impaneled in Supreme Court, Queens County. 

$250,000 recovery for a utility worker in an on the job auto accident

Daniel Flanzig obtained a $250,000 award for a male cable splicer in his late 40s employed by Consolidated Edison who sustained a cervical herniated disc in an auto accident. His van was struck by a Flushing Hospital Medical Center Ambulance on an emergency call. A settlement was reached after Flanzig and Flanzig was successful in obtaining a decision from a Supreme Court Judge that the plaintiff sustained a “serious injury” as a matter of law. Such decisions are rarely granted in auto accident cases where judges usually prefer to leave this determination for the jury.

$200,000 awarded to electrical contractor injured in auto accident that involved complex underinsurance arbitration

A 53-year old electrical contractor was awarded a total settlement of $200,000  following injuries to his shoulder and back in an auto accident.  The insurance company of the vehicle that struck our client awarded $25,000.  Cathy Flanzig obtained the additional recovery by filing for underinsurance arbitration with our client's own insurance company.   The settlement was reached on the morning that the arbitration was scheduled to take place.

$160,000 settlement for shoulder injury requiring arthroscopic surgery after accident

Our client sustained injuries to his shoulder in an automobile accident and had to have arthroscopic surgery.  The settlement was reached after a jury was impaneled in the Supreme Court, Nassau County.

$150,000.00 recovery for young woman who suffered fractured ankle on driveway.

$150,000.00 recovery was obtained by the firm for a young woman who suffered a fractured ankle requiring surgery when she slipped and fell on a snow covered driveway. The settlement was reached prior to the matter being in suit when investigators uncovered witnesses, including a neighbor and ambulance personnel who confirmed that the home owner failed to shovel the driveway despite the fact that it had stopped snowing almost twelve hours before her fall.

$120,000 Settlement for Young Child Injured by Dog Attack

A nine year old child was attacked by a dog and suffered facial wounds and scarring as a result.  A settlement was obtained early in the litigation as the result of an aggressive investigation that uncovered the previous vicious behavior by the same dog.