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Favorable Verdicts and Settlements Obtained by Our Attorneys in Stamford, Connecticut

One of the best ways to see the overall success of any firm is to study the verdicts and settlements obtained in cases. In choosing representation, whether you have been a victim of an accident, traumatic brain injury, or other personal injury, or if you have been a victim of employment discrimination or have a concern about an employment contract, review the results achieved by the personal injury or employment lawyer you are considering to represent you. Contact us to schedule a consultation on your legal matter.

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Stewart Casper

Dental Malpractice - Stewart Casper secured a settlement of $950,000 in a claim against a general dentist for negligently attempting to remove a molar on a 30 year old woman. The dental malpractice occurred either as a result of an infusion of massive amounts of air through an air syringe or improper use of a high speed drill. As a consequence, the patient sustained subcutaneous air emphysema and damage to the seventh and ninth cranial nerves with resulting facial asymmetry, right sided facial paresis and chronic headaches.
Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury $2.475 Million Jury Verdict: In the dark of night, 72 year old Nancy Bayard, while a guest in her daughter's Southport home, had to use the bathroom. But there was no light that would work to illuminate a darkened hallway where the bathroom was located next to a darkened old fashioned stairway. Nancy missed the bathroom door and fell down the stairs sustaining a subdural hematoma, an extensive contusion of the left temporal lobe of her brain, a subarachnoid hemorrhage, intraventricular hemorrhages and an uncal herniation in her brain. She also suffered a fracture of her clavicle, a compound fracture of her wrist, six rib fractures and several other injuries. Homeowners' insurance made it possible to pursue compensation even though the injuries were sustained in her daughter's home. A ten dollar night light would have averted the tragedy that left an independent and active woman requiring round the clock supervision.

However, because the fall was unwitnessed, it was up to Stewart Casper, a lawyer with extensive experience in traumatic brain injury cases, to demonstrate to a jury that there was no other plausible explanation for his client's fall. Evidence was marshaled demonstrating just that. Unfortunately, two insurance companies were more interested in saving money than they were in seeing a fair result, thus necessitating a two and one-half week trial. The lawyers from Casper & de Toledo presented testimony from a neuroradiologist, the neurosurgeon who performed two craniotomies, a physiatrist, a neuropsychologist, a certified life care planner, a human factors expert and a professional photographer and used numerous demonstrative aides to convince the jury of the merits of Ms. Bayard's claim. Case details.
Settlement with present value of $850,000 achieved for woman who slipped on an icy driveway at a three family tenement house in Greenwich, Connecticut sustaining a fracture of her ankle that required surgery as well as a knee injury that included torn cartilage and chondromalacia patella. The knee was treated with arthroscopic surgery and then a deteriorating condition necessitated a total knee replacement.

Discovery revealed that the landlord consistently avoided his statutory obligation under Connecticut law to maintain the common areas of the three family residence and thus he was sued not only for negligence but also for reckless conduct and a violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practice Act (CUTPA).
Municipal Negligence Resulting in Bodily Injury: Stewart Casper, of Stamford's Casper & de Toledo, secured a recent $6.3 million dollar jury verdict against the municipality of Greenwich, Connecticut for his client's leg and back injuries that required multiple surgeries with open reduction and internal fixation, a subsequent removal of hardware and fusion of the tibia because of non-union and the use of braces to treat chronic pain from compression fractures of the lumbar spine, all resulting from a January 2000 sledding accident. Case details.
Major Highway Construction Crash-Stewart Casper helped secure a recent $4.35 million settlement for his client and three other highway construction workers injured in a 1996 truck accident. Case details.
Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury Settlement: Stewart Casper secured $1.3 million for a 17-year-old autistic boy from Greenwich, Connecticut who, at age 9, sustained serious injuries in a car accident while being transported to school. In a head-on motor vehicle crash in Wilton, Connecticut, he sustained multiple fractures including the frontal bone (right forehead), the orbital rim and roof of the right eye; fractures of the sinus bones on both sides; fractures of his nose and fractures of his jaw.

The CAT scan of the young man's brain demonstrated a contusion of the brain and various fracture fragments, including one close to the optic nerve. Six days following the crash, a combined surgical procedure involving both a plastic surgeon and a neurosurgeon was delayed by medical complications involving the poor clotting quality of his blood. The head injuries were repaired after puzzling the pieces of his skull using internal fixation devices including metal plates and microtitanium screws. At the time of the surgery, the neurosurgeon found that the bone fragments had lacerated the protective covering around the brain called the dura. An area of necrotic or dead brain tissue in the right frontal lobe was found and removed.

Unlike in the case of most traumatic brain injuries, this boy had undergone extensive neuropsychological evaluation in connection with the diagnostic evaluation for his autism. It was determined that he had experienced more than a two standard deviation decline in his visual sequential memory which previously tested in the above average to superior range. This decline meant he would never be able to live independently and probably never be able to maintain independent employment. Our traumatic brain injury attorneys were able to get compensation for this loss of potential income.
Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury in Car Collision: Stewart Casper, in another traumatic brain injury matter was able to negotiate a $6.695 million settlement for a 45-year-old woman, her husband, and her two teenage boys for a moderate brain injury she sustained when her car was T-boned in Middlebury, Connecticut by a repair van, which was owned by an appliance repair company whose driver failed to stop for a red light.

The woman sustained bilateral subdural hyrgomas, a brain contusion with hemorrhaging, and loss of consciousness. Her injuries necessitated surgery to relieve the pressure building on her brain. As a result of her traumatic brain injuries, she experienced numerous cognitive deficits: retrograde and anterograde amnesia, deficits in attention, memory, executive function, verbal and written expression and comprehension. She required extensive hospitalization and rehabilitation. Because the driver negligently ran a stoplight, our traumatic brain attorneys were able to settle for more, as punitive damages would likely have been assessed in court.
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Car Collision: A $3 million settlement was procured by Stewart Casper for a car accident victim. The client, a 36-year-old woman employed in marketing research, was injured when rear-ended while stopped to make a left turn onto an on-ramp of the Connecticut Turnpike.

At the time of the crash, the defendant driver was intoxicated. The client was admitted to an acute care hospital with classic symptoms of a closed head injury (following loss of consciousness), including: perseveration (useless repetition), diminished short-term memory, altered state of consciousness and throbbing headaches. Following her discharge from the hospital on January 27, 1997 (3 nights) she continued to experience persistent sleepiness, attention and memory deficits.

The Client was diagnosed with post-concussive syndrome, concussion, seizure activity, and cognitive deficits, all attributable to the traumatic brain injury she sustained in the car accident. She also had pain in her neck, left shoulder girdle, low back and left hip. Furthermore, she was later diagnosed with myofascial pain, which required trigger point injections, and experienced transient urinary incontinence. In addition, she experienced a tremendous weight gain and significant depression.

The major component of the Plaintiff's injury was her traumatic brain injury, which was been corroborated by two treating neuropsychologists on the basis of neurocognitive testing and significantly positive SPECT Scan (assessing blood perfusion) and PET Scan (assessing metabolic activity within the brain). One neuropsychologist noted that she had suffered a significant brain trauma affecting her sustained attention and concentration, mild to moderate compromise of verbal memory, and non-verbal memory. She sustained an impairment of her ability to exercise hierarchical judgment and a mild reduction in global IQ.

A second neuropsychologist noted that-although the Plaintiff's short-term memory recovered to within normal limits-her verbal, visual, and global memory were impaired. The doctor opined that her injury involved the corpus callosum, and the right parietal area, left fronto-temporal area and the hippocampus bilaterally. Her global IQ had dropped approximately 15 points or two standard deviations in relation to her pre-morbid level of function. She was also affected by depression related to her adjustment disorder resulting from the subject crash. She also had facial spasms and recurring headaches from the subject crash.

The Client was unable to return to gainful employment following her accident. Due to the extent of the injuries suffered, the loss of potential income, and the negligence of the other driver, our car accident attorneys were able to achieve such a significant settlement.
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Stewart Casper secured a $1.3 million settlement in another traumatic brain injury occurring from a car accident on behalf of a 54-year-old married man working as a limousine driver and personnel recruiter.

While driving a limousine, he was rear-ended by a drunk driver. The force of the collision propelled his limousine across four lanes of traffic. He experienced a short loss of consciousness as a result of a severe whiplash injury. He sustained a concussion, cervical and lumbar sprains, a fracture of the scapula, post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive impairments involving memory, rate of mental processing, visual -spatial disturbances, word finding difficulties, slowed reaction time, psychomotor slowness and hyperacoutism. Our car accident lawyers helped the client gain compensation in excess of one million dollars.
Ankle Fracture - $735,000 Jury Verdict. Tri-Malleolar fracture in fall down case nets another client of Stewart Casper in excess of $500,000. Much to the consternation of another insurance company, one more jury sitting in Superior Court in Stamford, CT has determined that the value of a tri-malleolar ankle fracture requiring open reduction and internal fixation has a value in excess of one-half million dollars. While this result is not necessarily the highest amount that can be achieved in a personal injury case involving this type of complex fracture and does it mean that all similar cases will have the same value, it is significant that for the second time in less than five years, Attorney Casper has tried to a jury verdict a fall down case arising from an accident in Greenwich, CT with nearly identical physical injuries involving a serious ankle fracture and achieved nearly an identical result. This jury verdict was in Duncan v. Mill Management Company, Inc. The jury returned a verdict for $500,000 in non-economic damages, $235,000 in economic damages and reduced the total verdict of $735,000 for the Plaintiff's comparative negligence of 25%. Case Details
Dental Malpractice - Stewart Casper secured a settlement of $950,000 in a claim against a general dentist for negligently attempting to remove a molar on a 30 year old woman. The dental malpractice occurred either as a result of an infusion of massive amounts of air through an air syringe or improper use of a high speed drill. As a consequence, the patient sustained subcutaneous air emphysema and damage to the seventh and ninth cranial nerves with resulting facial asymmetry, right sided facial paresis and chronic headaches.
Jury Verdict $1.537 Million. Complex Fracture. Stewart Casper obtained a jury verdict for woman who sustained a comminuted fracture of her right heel (calcaneus) requiring open reduction and internal fixation with bone grafting with resultant major disability.

This motor vehicle collision occurred within a highway construction zone late at night when the Plaintiff collided with the rear of two SUVs. They were operated by teenagers who had stopped in the left travel lane because of a prior fender bender with minimal resulting damage. The Plaintiff claimed an inability to see the stopped vehicles in a closed lane of travel because of the failure of the highway contractor to deploy lane closure warning devices properly. Liability was complicated by contradictory evidence offered as to whether there was a high mounted internally illuminated flashing arrow as required by the construction contract. Based on evidence provided by our car accident attorneys, the jury concluded that there was no such signal and attributed 65% responsibility to the contractor. Verdict was sustained on appeal. Ludington v. Sayers, 64 Conn. App. 768, 778 A.2d 262 (2001).
Jury Verdict $543,393 in Car Collision. Unoperated cervical herniated disc and myofascial pain. Samuel King et al v. Edward W. Roberts and ELRAC Inc. d/b/a Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Superior Court, Judicial District of Fairfield at Bridgeport, Dkt. CV 96 0329317 S. Case tried by Stewart Casper to verdict on behalf of four of five occupants involved in motor vehicle crash. Aggregate verdict for the four Plaintiffs $543,393.00, plus offer of judgment interest of $115,907.42 for a total aggregate recovery of $659,300.42. Defendants' best offer was aggregate $125,000.

The crash was a side-swiping hit and run at the interstate, causing the plaintiff's vehicle to go out of control, cross the right most lane, hit a guard rail and roll over. Subsequent to the collision, the Defendant Roberts continued traveling, leaving the scene of the accident without stopping. As a result of the collision and rollover, all the Plaintiffs were thrown about in their vehicle striking various portions of their body. The Defendant, Roberts was subsequently apprehended on the basis of an eye witness who reported the license plate to the state police.

CLAIMS Mr. King Sustained: Small central disc herniation at C5-6 level; cervical strain/sprain; lumbar strain; multiple contusions; closed head injury; headaches; myofascial pain syndrome; post concussive syndrome; lumbosacral radiculopathy; labyrinthitis; left posterior ilial rotation, and pain and suffering and a shock to his nervous system.

At the time of his injury and for over 25 years prior to that date, the plaintiff was an electrical mechanic specializing in electronic and security services. Mr. King missed substantial time from work as a result of this collision and lost a significant amount of money due to the collapse of his newly established business. The injuries sustained in this accident substantially limited the plaintiff's physical activity. As a result of the accident, the plaintiff could no longer do any overhead work, bending, or crawling in to small spaces; all of which were required as an alarm installer. In addition his leisure activities of running, hunting, hiking and camping had been severely compromised. He used to engage in these physical activities on a regular basis before the accident. He experienced constant neck pain with intermittent exacerbations of sharp pain extending into the right shoulder girdle region. He also suffered from constant pain in the low back that was aggravated by prolonged sitting or lifting.
Driver Gets $190K From $25K Policy-Nobody likes being ignored. But for a client of Stamford trial lawyer Stewart M. Casper, being ignored proved lucrative. The simple fact that Allstate Insurance Co. and another insurer ignored early settlement offers has increased the potential recovery by at least $150,000. When New York teacher Katie Grammatikakis' auto accident case was referred to him in 1997, Casper acted promptly. Case details.
Medical Malpractice in Delivery of Baby Settlement: $1.5 million. Stewart Casper handled the case of a still birth of a male fetus at 34 weeks of gestation. Mother was overweight and had gestational diabetes. On Saturday evening she reported that her baby was not moving. She was seen in the labor and delivery room of the local hospital by the on-call member of the obstetrical practice. She had an equivocal non-stress test but was nonetheless discharged without further testing or monitoring and told to count the baby's movements.

She felt only two slight movements the rest of the evening which she reported to the obstetrician. The next morning she felt one slight movement that was reported. Throughout that day she experienced increasing abdominal pain and returned to the hospital late in the afternoon. There was no fetal heartbeat. Labor was induced and she delivered the dead baby vaginally 42 hours later.
Medical Malpractice, Surgical Error, Settlement: $250,000. Stewart Casper obtained a settlement for a 42-year-old woman who underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. During the surgery she sustained damage to her right ureter which went undiagnosed for four weeks at which time she was alerted to a problem when she began to discharge urine through her vagina. She was diagnosed with a ureterovaginal fistula caused by the damaged ureter. She was required to undergo several invasive diagnostic procedures and then she underwent a re-implantation of her ureter.
Complex Motor Vehicle Crash Claim Saved in a Double Wrongful Death Case: In Michael Irwin Administrator of the Estate of John Irwin v. Elizabeth Gessinger, et al, Partner Stewart M. Casper was called upon to attempt to salvage a claim on behalf of the Irwin Estate where there was a potential for no recovery because John Irwin was the operator of a vehicle in which both he and his long-term companion Gina Smith died in a multiple vehicle crash on Interstate 95 in East Lyme, CT.

The Smith Estate as well as two other injured people included the Irwin Estate among the parties that they sued in an effort to maximize their recovery. With meticulous planning, decisions concerning the retention of the proper accident reconstructionist and a series of depositions calculated to fit all of the pieces together, Casper minimized the comparative negligence exposure of the Irwin Estate and guided the case to a successful conclusion and recovery of $1.65 million.

Michael Irwin, the Administrator of his late brother's estate and a Managing Director of a major Wall Street investment bank recently wrote to Casper: "I admire your tenacity, thoroughness, strategic approach and sense of fairness. You have a well deserved reputation based on these qualities...." Case details.
Nursing Home Malpractice, Medication Error: $200,000 Stewart Casper negotiated a settlement for the estate of an 89 year old male stroke patient confined to a nursing home who developed Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis ("TEN") as a result of being given one dose of Bactrim to which he was known to be allergic. The Bactrim was intended for another patient. The TEN caused extensive burn like exfoliation of the patient's skin on his hands, feet, neck and genitalia. Healing took place over the course of approximately six weeks. He died from unrelated causes.
Motorcycle Crash Victims- $2.1 million: Overcoming the palpable bias against injured motorcycle enthusiasts and the efforts of defense attorneys and insurance companies to shield their clients from full accountability, Stewart Casper successfully negotiated a $2.1 million settlement on behalf of Martin (age 52) and Annette Sabba (age 57) in a case pending in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

The Sabbas were returning from an excursion in the bucolic hills of Litchfield County when 17 year old Matthew Pambianchi made a sudden left turn in their path catapulting driver and passenger to the pavement.

Mr. Sabba's medical expenses currently exceed $250,000 and include extensive hospitalizations within a six month period. He underwent two surgeries to reconstruct his wrists and four surgeries to address a lacerated liver, abdominal infection and removal of his gall bladder all of which were caused by the impact. He continues to have ongoing pain and limited range of motion in both hands and wrists which significantly limit his physical activity. Mrs. Sabba sustained a tri-malleolar fracture of her right ankle requiring surgery with internal fixation. The hardware was later removed. She also sustained three fracture ribs and a concussion. He medical expenses were approximately $40,000.

Settlement was achieved after lawyers for Casper & de Toledo obliterated the defense claim that Mr. Sabba was comparatively negligent and uncovering previously undisclosed insurance coverage.
Slip & Fall on Ice- almost $600,000 verdict: A Stamford, CT jury returned a verdict, in a case Stewart Casper handled, of nearly $600,000 reduced by 30% comparative negligence for Flora Smith against the owner of an upscale retail and office building along fashionable Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, CT. Ms. Smith was on her way to an appointment shortly before 9 a.m. when she slipped and fell on ice on a public sidewalk that had formed from runoff from a pile of snow created by snow removal efforts at 200 Greenwich Avenue.

Ms. Smith sustained a tri-malleolar of her right ankle requiring open reduction and internal fixation. She subsequently underwent two arthroscopic ankle surgeries for chronic degenerative changes and was forced to curtail a very active recreational life. Her medical bills were approximately $60,000 and she did not sustain any lost wages. The Defendant disclaimed responsibility for the melting snow blaming an abutting property owner and natural conditions. Prejudgment interest will add approximately $160,000 to the judgment. Case details
Architectural Malpractice-$625,000 Settlement. Stewart Casper handled a case against the Mulligan Architecture firm which contracted with a national chain of stores to design the remodeling of its new store in Stamford. The pre-existing commercial space was equipped with a conveyor belt to move merchandise from the first to the second floor. The new architectural plan reconfigured the space from an entirely open work space to a narrow work area leaving inadequate room for employees to gain access to the top of the conveyor when parcels became stuck. Further, the architect failed to comply with Connecticut Building Code requirements for a continuous pressure switch, adequate access to the machinery, emergency stop mechanism and adequate guarding.

On April 2, 2000, Chris Cleaver, the assistant store manager was alone in the receiving room and was using the conveyor to move product to the second floor. When a parcel became stuck at the top of the conveyor, Cleaver attempted to dislodge it but his shirt became entangled in the conveyor and he was dragged into the space between the moving belt and the rollers. The conveyor belt ran against his lower abdomen for thirty minutes before he was rescued. The friction caused a full thickness friction burn over 9% of his body requiring two skin graft procedures and leaving a significant scar that is concealed by his clothing. The architect and the general contractor were each sued for failing to comply with the applicable building code. The defense claimed that Cleaver was guilty of contributory negligence for failing to stop the conveyor before attempting to dislodge the parcel. Please contact us.
Eighteen Year Old Sustains Fractured Neck-Settlement $1,320,000: Exhausting all available insurance coverage, Stewart Casper settled a case for 18 year old high school graduate who sustained cervical spine fractures at C5 and C6 through the lamina and pedicle on the right side and at C6 through the vertebral body anteriorly and a subluxation of the C4-C5 vertebra when the driver of the car in which she was a passenger lost control of the vehicle and caused the vehicle to crash and roll onto its roof. The Plaintiff had the good fortune to be treated cautiously by EMTs and brilliant surgery performed by Greenwich, CT neurosurgeons Paul Apostolides and Mark Camel averted potentially disastrous results that could have resulted in permanent paralysis. The Plaintiff underwent surgery that included anterior and posterior approach with anterior cervical decompression, bone grafting with autograft bone and plating followed by posterior cervical fixation. While very fortunate to have retained neurological function, the plaintiff experiences chronic pain, arthritic changes and sleep disturbance.
"Dear Attorney Casper- This is such a hard note for me to write - I don't know how to thank you enough for all you have done for me over the past four years. You have supported and encouraged me, and treated me like a daughter, and that means so much. I was so afraid to go through this whole process, but you have made it easier by always being there for me. I don't know how to thank you enough for caring about me so much. Thank you for offering to be there if I ever need help or advice. Your kindness has made such a difference. I will definitely keep in touch! Thank you again."
Pedestrian Accident- Verdict of $1.3 million for Broken Leg. Stewart Casper and Victoria de Toledo obtained a verdict of $1.3 million for their client in Viesto v Grecco. Mr. Viesto was injured when a co-worker backed up his truck and hit Mr. Viesto who suffered a broken leg as a result.

Victoria de Toledo

Whistleblower and Retaliation, Municipal Liability- Verdict of $860,000. Victoria de Toledo obtained a verdict of $860,000 for her client who had protested age discrimination in the Town of Weston police department. The Chief of Police retaliated against Officer McInnis after he protested age discrimination. The Chief subjected the officer to unwarranted internal affairs investigation and excessive discipline. The jury verdict was subsequently reduced by the judge but in post trial proceedings, the judge awarded attorney fees and costs in addition to the verdict.
Slip and Fall. Municipal Liability- $950,000 for broken hip. At trial, Victoria de Toledo represented a 52 year old women who broke her hip when she slipped and fell on ice on the driveway entrance to a town parking lot. The town argued the claim fell under the highway defect statue and therefore, the plaintiff had to prove that the Town's negligence was the sole proximate cause of her injury and that the plaintiff had no fault whatsoever in her falling on the ice. The case was settled during jury selection. Sanders v. Town of Greenwich.Read more in news article
Age Discrimination- Failure to promote- $500,000+ verdict. LaBlanc v. City of Stamford, CT Federal Court, Civ. No. B-88-63 (TFGD), 1990, Victoria de Toledo obtained a jury verdict for a captain of fire department of approximately half a million dollars for not being promoted because of his age. Captain La Blanc was passed over and a younger officer was promoted to the open deputy chief position. Although Captain La Blanc remained employed, the jury awarded him the difference in future earnings between the deputy chief position and the captain position he retained. The jury found willful discrimination which doubled the damages.
Age Discrimination- Layoff in reduction in force- $700,000+. Victoria de Toledo handled the trial of Raimondo v. Amax Corp, CT Federal Court, 1994 for a researcher who lost his job in a lay off. After finding willful discrimination, the jury awarded him approximately three quarters of a million dollars in his age discrimination case; affirmed on appeal Raimondo v. Cyprus Amax Minerals Co.,48 F.3d 1214 (2d Cir. 1994).
Defamation award of $800,000. Victoria de Toledo represented a factory worker in Cweklinsky v. Mobil Oil Corp., CT Federal Court, Civ. No. 399-698, 2001, who was defamed by his employer and was terminated without having gotten the warnings described in the disciplinary process section of the company's employment manual. The jury awarded him over three quarters of a million dollars. The case was appealed and a settlement was reached after the appeal.
Disability Discrimination- $1 million award. Victoria de Toledo persuaded a jury to award an anesthesiologist approximately one million dollars for not being allowed to work part time because of arthritis in Shaw v. Greenwich Anesthesiology Associates, CT Federal Court, Civ. No. 399-1076, 2002.
Slip and Fall, Municipal Liability-$305,000 verdict for broken arm of 86 year old. Victoria de Toledo, in the trial of Anna Sackman v. City of Stamford, represented an elderly woman in a trip and fall as a result of a broken and uneven public sidewalk at the Stamford Railroad Station. Liability was governed by the rule of "sole proximate cause." Accordingly, it was necessary for the Plaintiff to prove not only that the sidewalk was defective but also that the Plaintiff, age 86, was free from comparative negligence. Mrs. Sackman sustained a comminuted fracture dislocation of the right shoulder (humerus), a displaced fracture of her nose and multiple contusions and abrasions. She underwent a right shoulder hemiarthroplasty the day after the accident.
Car Accident Resulted in Ringing in the Ear- $350,000 verdict. Victoria de Toledo tried to a jury the case of Eisenstein v. GE Auto Home Assurance. Mr. Eisenstein was a police officer who suffered persistent ringing in his ears (tinnitus) as a result of a car accident. The jury awarded him $350,000. The insurance company lawyer told the jury the claim was worth only $20,000. Spring, 2005.
Legal Malpractice in Handling an Employment Claim - Approximately $450,000 Settlement. Victoria de Toledo negotiated the settlement of an individual's case against his former lawyer who had not properly handled the client's failure to pay wages claim. The individual's prior lawyer had tried to settle the client's original case for approximately $50,000.
Age Discrimination and Whistleblower claim- $200,000. Victoria de Toledo obtained a settlement of approximately $200,000 for an employee who claimed that he had been placed on administrative leave because he complained about age discrimination and safety issues.
Sexual Harassment - settlement of approximately $125,000. Victoria de Toledo settled the claim of an employee who claimed that co-workers made sexual comments to her and her supervisor failed to stop the behavior.
Racial Discrimination - settlement of approximately $450,000. Victoria de Toledo negotiated the settlement of an employee's claim that she was not promoted, not allowed to attend meetings and criticized unfairly because of her race.
Legal Malpractice and Sexual Harassment-$120,000 settlement. Victoria de Toledo negotiated the settlement of a legal malpractice claim on behalf of a woman of who been forced to resign because of sexual comments by her boss but had her case dismissed because her former lawyer missed filing deadlines.
Whistleblower and Retaliation, Municipal Liability- Verdict of $860,000. Victoria de Toledo obtained a verdict of $860,000 in McInnis v. Town of Weston, CT Federal Court, Civ. No. 3:03CV01803 for a police officer who had protested age discrimination in the Town of Weston police department. The Chief of Police retaliated against Officer McInnis after he protested age discrimination in promotions by subjecting the officer to unwarranted internal affairs investigation and excessive discipline. Jury verdict was subsequently reduced by the court but the court awarded fees and costs in addition to the damage award.
Facial/Ear Damage -- Assault: Individual at a psychiatric hospital was attacked by another patient. Injured person's ear was partially bitten off. Ear reconstruction was subsequently performed. Settlement was $450,000.

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