Posted on 10/16/2024 5:58:04 AM PDT by xxqqzz
In this video, New York City personal injury trial attorney Arkady Frekhtman breaks down a $17 million verdict for a 37-year-old doctor who suffered a life-altering injury. Arcadey delves into the trial strategy, including how the plaintiff’s pre-existing condition was aggravated by the incident and how expert witnesses, focus groups, and powerful courtroom techniques, such as psycho-drama, were used to secure this massive verdict. This case exemplifies the complexity of personal injury litigation and showcases the preparation needed to win big in court.
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$100 million is a pretty large spread.
I do not believe in the idea that financially a rich man, or company, should be held more responsible for something just because they have more money.
The worst example of that in my memory was a bicycle manufacturer or lost a suit by the family of a boy severely injured in an accident wile riding his bike after sundown. The winning claim was THE BIKE MANUFACTURER was supposed to have warning tag on the bike about not riding the bike when its dark outside without installing a bike light. The bike manufacturer was sued because they had a lot more money than the bike maker.
In terms of actual negiligence it is kid’s parents who should have been sued. It was there responsibility to (a) tell the kid not to ride the bike at night, or (b) buy the kid a light for the bike.
The lawyer's cut.
“The winning claim was THE BIKE MANUFACTURER was supposed to have warning tag on the bike about not riding the bike when its dark outside without installing a bike light. The bike manufacturer was sued because they had a lot more money than the bike maker.”
These lawsuits were luxuries that we could get away with when we were ‘King of the Hill’ decades ago. Now it’s a changed world, with China zooming past us in Real GNP and Third World countries closing in on us in Per-Capita Real GNP. Not good.
Sometimes it works the other way. If a doctor negligently performs surgery on Julie Andrews and she loses her singing voice, the damages are far greater than if he did it to an Amazon truck driver, even though the negligence was the same.
America’s absurd and fantastical tort-law system is another legal and political fantasy and perversion which has turned into cancer - and which will go away when America finally bankrupts itself.
As one who has had to endure three back/spinal surgeries, I can say now that I wish that I had just left it alone and endured all the pain as it was. Now, three surgeries later, I am left with four fused discs, at the L2, L3, L4 and L5/S-1, two rods along the spine and 10 screws holding it all together and still in pain, worse pain.
If you watch the end of the video, it was definitely $117 million. The lawyers get 1/3, sometime more if it goes to trial like this. Sometimes they try to bill the client for stuff, which is shady.
Yeah, I was badly hurt in an accident and the doctors and lawyers pressured me to do surgery, but I know it would be even worse with it.
Yeah, someone with serious injuries, blown out discs, broken back, etc., surgery is a need. But, my first surgery was botched and things just got worse from there.
I do not mind the identification of greater damages. I do mind when true negligence is dismissed in favor of who’s got the deeper pockets.
Doc gave me a list of back exercises that didn’t work. Found a you tube video about hanging from a door frame with toes on ground and letting my hips drop. Cured the pain but I have to do it every morning and after a long trip of setting. The hips dropping was the big thing and it is hard to explain but one can feel it when they do.
Yeah, back surgery is generally a bad idea, but doctors and lawyers want to make money. I have bad spinal injuries, but am refusing it.
There are some cases where it really is appropriate. For herniated disks they say if you are in unbearable pain, and the nerve damage interferes with going to the bathroom, etc. But they will push it if you have a personal injury case with high limits of liability. Doctors will want to do surgery also to make money. The thing is the problem has to be really bad for surgery to be an improvement, because you will be in bad shape after back surgery.
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