major case results

The following is a sample of cases that were closed from the previous years.

Worker’s Compensation Hearings:

Awards for total disability. 2006-2011

Construction Defect / Personal Injury

Aikaterinides v. Woods Construction, Baltimore County Circuit Court; jury trial; Plaintiff’s recovery in excess of $1 Million.
Structural engineering, building code violation.

Pharmaceutical Litigation:

Co-counsel for Fen-Phen diet drug litigation involving Federal class action and multi-district transfer litigation.
Trial counsel in Maryland and Delaware for individual personal injury and wrongful death cases.

Tobacco Litigation: 

Civil Trial Attorney for the State of Maryland v. Philip Morris, Inc., et al., to recover Medicaid funds expended on tobacco related diseases. Case resulted in record $4.2 billion dollar settlement for the State; Co-Lead Counsel for class-action lawsuit in Brooklyn, New York entitled National Asbestos Workers v. Philip Morris, to recover medical expenditures for Health and Welfare Trust Funds. Also served as counsel in Class Action cases of Richardson, filed April 1996, certified as a statewide class action on behalf of Maryland smokes with injury and addiction, case decertified in June 2000; Reed case in Washington D.C.; Cosentino in New Jersey; originally assigned to Castano national class action litigation in New Orleans. 

Polybutylene Plumbing:

Co-counsel on Villager Lodge v. Shell Oil, Co., et al., litigation in Houston, Texas that resulted in multi-million dollar settlement; Lead counsel in HM Land v. Shell Oil Co., et al., in Harford County, Maryland, for twelve local housing developers.

Insurance Fraud:

Co-counsel for Tina B. v. National Medical Enterprises, Inc. Represented 185 plaintiffs who were involuntarily committed to three separate psychiatric hospitals in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C.; multi-million dollar settlement with physicians and corporate defendant.

Employee Wrongful Termination:

Baltimore City, Settlement 2011.

Motorcycle Crash/Amputation; Louis Doe v. Americans Insurance Company, Baltimore City Circuit Court; Confidential settlement. 2010.

Motorcycle Crash/Wrongful Death; Estate of Ray Doe v. Dairyland Insurance Company,
Baltimore County Circuit Court; Confidential settlement. 2008.

Purchase of Baltimore Pharmacy:

Commercial Real Estate contract. 2011.

Premises Liability/Shopping Center/Failure to Maintain Safety Equipment/Pedestrian

Injury at Starbuck’s: 2009.

Crash/Wrongful Death;

Estate of David Doe v. Encompass Insurance Company, Carroll County Circuit Court; Confidential settlement. 2007.

Automobile Crash/Serious Personal Injury, Permanent Disability;

Janet Doe v. Erie Insurance Company, Baltimore City, Court approved settlement. 2010.

Defective Knee Implant Recall:

Multiple clients; individual cases against national manufacturer Smith & Nephew. 2006-2008.

Mechanics Lien Litigation:

Baltimore County Court Trial; Verdict. 2009.

Sale of Centreville Pharmacy:

2009.

Commercial Lease negotiation,

Printing Company: 2011.

Pharmaceutical Litigation: 

Co-counsel for Fen-Phen diet drug litigation involving Federal class action and multi-district transfer litigation.
Trial counsel in Maryland and Delaware for individual personal injury and wrongful death cases. 

Residential Home Sales:

Represent sellers in home purchases of $1.7 and $1.9. 2008.

Cell Phone Litigation:

Trial and Appellate co-counsel for Newman v. Motorola and Pinney v. Nokia et al.
Personal Injury; Federal Court – Daubert Hearing, Medical Monitoring Class Action

Motorcycle Crash/Serious Injury, Disfigurement;

John Doe v. National Insurance Company, Baltimore County Circuit Court; Structured confidential settlement. 2011.

Automobile Crash/Serious Personal Injury, Permanent Disability;

Mike Doe v. Travelers Insurance Company, Wicomico County, 2009.

Automobile Crash/Serious Personal Injury, Permanent Disability;

Janet Doe v. Erie Insurance Company, Baltimore City, Court approved settlement. 2010.

Southwest Airlines Plane Skids off Runway, Chicago:

Personal Injury; Pre-Impact fright. 2007.

Consolidated Plaintiff Action on behalf of unpaid national vendors representing twelve different states to collect non-payment of funds

Versus McCormick & Schmicks. 2011.

Medical Malpractice:

Surgical error. Confidential settlement. 2010

Felony Narcotics, Prescription Fraud, Frederick County:

Trial. Probation 2011.

Pivnet, Inc. Advertising Agency

Company Attorney 2011.

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