Personal Injury/Wrongful Death

Won $15 million verdict for a survivor of child sexual abuse.

Won $7 million verdict for a mother whose toddler was killed by a pit bull.

Secured $1.5 million settlement for a child seriously injured in foster care.

Won $1 million verdict for a girl who was sexually abused by her best friend’s father.

Secured $1 million settlement for a babysitter sexually abused by her employer.

Secured $825,000 settlement for choking death of intellectually disabled resident of group home.

Secured $750,000 settlement for the wrongful death of an infant who died as a result of a day care center’s failure to use safe-sleep practices.

Secured $125,000 settlement for a family whose children were sickened by e-coli bacteria from a defective sewer line.

Secured significant settlement for a pregnant woman who was falsely arrested for shoplifting and beaten by a county policewoman, causing premature birth of a child with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Secured significant settlement for two girls who were sexually assaulted at an apartment complex that failed to provide proper security.

Obtained $1.5 million for a client who rear-ended a truck that had a defectively designed underride guard.

Brought the first cases in the country against gun manufacturers for their failure to make their guns childproof.

Successfully represented clients injured when: a golf cart rolled over due to faulty design; a handle broke off a pot full of boiling water badly burning a young girl; an exterminator poisoned a house with chemicals; a fall from a defective inversion table rendered a man a quadriplegic; a solar panel processing machine with an inadequate safety guard caused a machine operator to lose a hand.

Obtained $3 million for medical malpractice when a doctor failed to perform a liver transplant.

Obtained $725,000 for the family of a patient who died as a result of the misdiagnosis of coronary disease as acid reflux.

Secured significant settlement for the estate of a patient injured by a dialysis center that improperly diluted an ingredient necessary to cleanse his blood.

Secured significant settlement for a patient who was given four times the appropriate dosage of chemotherapy drugs.

Secured significant settlement for the estate of a patient who suffered unnecessarily due to a hospice’s negligent failure to treat pain.

Secured significant settlement for a man who was inadequately represented by his attorney after he was struck by a taxi.

Won $7 million verdict for client’s debilitating back pain as a result of a truck sideswiping his car.

Obtained $1.5 million for a client who rear-ended a truck that had a defective underride guard.

Secured significant settlement for a woman who was injured by a jet ski driver.

Secured significant settlement for the passenger in a boat who was seriously injured when the drunk boat driver struck a buoy.

Obtained $6.5 million for family of unarmed man shot eight times and killed by Baltimore County police officer after his mother called 911 to report that he was intoxicated and suicidal.

Won $3.9 million verdict for family of a worker electrocuted when a crane operator used a crane too close to high-voltage power lines.

Secured $1.9 million settlement on behalf of the parents of a young man with Down syndrome who was killed by deputy sheriffs who dragged him from a movie theater for the “crime” of wanting to watch a movie a second time without buying a second ticket.

Secured $825,000 settlement for choking death of intellectually disabled resident of group home.

Secured $750,000 settlement for the wrongful death of an infant who died as a result of a day care center’s failure to use safe-sleep practices, together with reforms to the practices of an entire chain of day care centers.

Won $1 million verdict for a woman who fell down a poorly lighted flight of stairs next to the dance floor at a nightclub.

Secured $1 million settlement for residents injured in a fire in rental units that lacked functioning smoke detectors.

Secured significant settlement for a woman who fell into an inadequately fenced construction excavation and suffered severe burns from steam pipes.

Secured significant settlement for a woman who was assaulted at a shopping center with inadequate lighting.

Set the legal standard for landlord liability for the injuries of children poisoned by lead paint and established the applicability of Maryland consumer protection laws to lead paint claims.

Successfully challenged a Maryland regulation exempting certain housing repairs from lead-safe work rules and represented more than 100 children who were victims of childhood lead poisoning.