Case Results

Below are representative settlements and verdicts pursued and won by The Krasnow Law Firm. Please note that every case is different and these verdicts and settlements, while accurate, do not represent what we may obtain for you in your case. Nor does it mean that we win all of our cases - we don't. Our clients tell us that knowing that we have achieved significant results, both by settlement and by jury verdict, is one factor that many of them used to decide to hire us. You certainly should ask any prospective attorney whether he or she has obtained significant verdicts and settlements but the decision to hire an attorney should not be made on this factor alone. We would be more than happy to discuss any of these cases, and many others, with you.

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Serious Personal Injuries

  • $925,000 - Our client from rural Southwest Virginia was driving his car on a narrow winding mountain road when he encountered a tractor trailer which had managed to block the entire roadway while trying to take a shortcut. It was initially thought his injuries were minor and he hired a local attorney to represent him. After he went back to work, the demands of his job were such that he soon realized that his injuries were much more significant than initially thought. After his doctor retired him on permanent disability he discharged his local attorney and hired The Krasnow Law Firm. The case was tried in United States District Court resulting in a verdict of $925,000. The highest offer before trial was $225,000.

    • Awarded: $925,000

  • $750,000 - A couple from out of state were killed while driving through Virginia on Interstate 81. A tractor trailer going the other way had gone out-of-control, entered the median, crossed the median on a diagonal and struck their car killing both of them instantly.

    • Awarded: $750,000

  • $675,000 - Our client, a postal worker, was operating his motorcycle on a major street when a driver at a side road failed to see him and pulled in front of him. He suffered a serious leg injury that required multiple surgical procedures including skin grafting.

    • Awarded: $675,000

  • $500,000 - Our client, a 38 year-old nurse, was struck by a car while crossing the street in a marked pedestrian crosswalk. She suffered fractures to both legs, both of which required surgery, and was unable to continue her career as a nurse. This case was arbitrated by the agreement of both parties resulting in an award of $500,000.

    • Awarded: $500,000

  • $399,000 - Our client was a passenger in a van being driven by a relative. She was injured in a crash caused by a driver who ran through a stop sign directly into the path of the van. She suffered a very bad hip fracture which had to be surgically repaired at a major medical center.

    • Awarded: $399,000

  • $275,000 - Our client was injured in a car crash when the defendant who was coming the other way made a left turn directly in from of her. She suffered a fractured sternum and ribs with a pneumothorax (collapsed lung) which required the insertion of a chest tube to re-inflate the lung. She also suffered a fracture of her foot which required surgery.

    • Awarded: $275,000

  • $250,000 - Our 46 year old female client was injured in a crash. She was in the process of passing another vehicle when it pulled into the passing lane, forcing her to run off the road and crash. She suffered a compression fracture in her mid-spine and a ventral hernia which required surgical repair.

    • Awarded: $250,000

  • $250,000 - One of our clients suffered a very serious knee injury requiring extensive surgical repair while exiting a fun house operated by a traveling carnival. The exit from the fun house was through a large pipe which had to be navigated while rotating. The carnival recognized the potential for injury and assigned an employee to assist patrons should they encounter difficulty while exiting. As our client was exiting, however, this employee was not present and she fell.

    • Awarded: $250,000

Medical Malpractice

  • $2,750,000 - Following years of litigation, and with an August 2005 trial looming, a final settlement was recently reached with the final defendant in the case, Dr. Kishor Pathak, a radiologist practicing in Mercer County. Dr. Pathak’s insurance company contributed $1,650,000.00 to the settlement in addition to $1,100,000.00 previously paid by other defendants to settle the claims against them. Our client had been injured in a motor vehicle crash. When he was taken to the hospital we alleged that Dr. Pathak misread films of our client’s cervical spine, failed to recognize evidence of a serious injury and improperly told the other physicians that there was no injury to his cervical spine. The other defendants, an emergency physician and a cardiologist were alleged to have failed to recognize signs of the injury and the impending paralysis. The negligence of Dr. Pathak and that of the other defendants left our client a C-6 incomplete quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. The settlement will provide our client with the financial resources to take care of his medical needs and even go off of the Medicaid program.

    • Awarded: $2,750,000

  • $2,500,000 - A lady lost her leg due the negligence of her vascular surgeon in treating circulatory problems in that leg. We prosecuted this case with attorneys from Maryland. The jury returned a verdict for two million five hundred thousand dollars but the Virginia cap on damages in medical malpractice cases, which was $1,600,000 at the time applied.

    • Awarded: $2,500,000

  • $2,000,000 - When our client was an infant she had multiple urinary tract infections. Her parents took her to see their family physician who referred her to a Urologist. The Urologist tried to conduct a test but it could not be completed. He wanted to repeat the test but no one told the parents to bring her back. When the parents did not bring her back no one in the Urology practice did anything to get her back; they did not contact either the parents or the family physician. When the child had further urinary tract infections the parents took her back to the family physician who assumed everything was OK because he had not heard back from the urologist. The child had a condition called vessico-ureteral reflux where the valve between the ureter and bladder allowed urine to flow back up the ureters to the kidneys. When the child had urinary tract infections this transmitted the infection up to the kidneys. By the time the condition was diagnosed her kidneys had been severely damaged. By the time of trial the child was on dialysis and kidney transplants were to occur later. At the time the malpractice occurred the partnership in which the family practitioner practiced and the professional corporation which employed the urologists were not considered health care providers and the court ruled that the then current VA cap of one million dollars for damages in medical malpractice cases did not apply to these defendants. This case was tried to a jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court resulting in a verdict of $1,350,000 against the urologists and their professional corporation. Because of a pretrial settlement with the family practitioner and his partnership the total recovery was $2,000,000.

    • Awarded: $2,000,000

  • $900,000 - Following the birth of her third child, our client did not want any further children. She underwent a sterilization procedure called a bilateral tubal ligation. In this operation, the surgeon severs the fallopian tubes so that the patient cannot become pregnant again. The pathology report from the hospital demonstrated that the surgeon had only identified and severed one of the two fallopian tubes, meaning that the patient was still fertile. The surgeon, who was a hospital employee, routinely did not read the pathology reports, nor did he delegate anyone else to do so. Thus, the pathologist’s reports indicating that the patient was still fertile were ignored. Several years later she became pregnant and delivered a child who was severely retarded with Downs Syndrome. Suit was brought against the hospital, who was the employer of the surgeon, as well as the surgeon seeking damages for the extraordinary expenses of caring for this child because of her Down’s Syndrome as well as her mother’s emotional distress over her condition. The malpractice insurance company for the surgeon and the doctor was insolvent but there was $300,000.00 coverage available under the Virginia Insurance Guarantee Fund. This case was settled by compromise with a consent judgment entered against only the surgeon for $900,000.00. $300,000.00 towards this consent judgment was paid by the Virginia Insurance Guarantee Fund and efforts to collect the remainder of the judgment from the Receivers of the hospital’s insurance company continue. The settlement agreement precludes the Plaintiff from attempting to collect the excess judgment from either the physician, who is now a convicted felon and retired with no assets, or the hospital.

    • Awarded: $900,000

  • $500,000 - Our client suffered an injury to the nerves of her right arm during her delivery. The defendant OB-GYN had failed to diagnose that out client’s mother was a gestational diabetic during her prenatal care. He also failed to recognize that the baby was going to be very large. During delivery the baby’s shoulder was caught (shoulder dystocia) because it was too broad to easily fit through the birth canal. When this problem occurred the physician did exactly the wrong maneuver. All of this caused the nerves to the child’s arm to be torn leaving her with a permanently impaired arm. This case settled in mediation for $500,000.

    • Awarded: $500,000

  • $500,000 - A gentleman underwent an angioplasty to open a coronary artery. There were complications which resulted in blood leaking into the tissue surrounding the heart. This compressed the heart and eventually caused him to suffer a cardiac arrest from cardiac tamponade. The cardiologist was too slow to recognize this complication and the patient suffered a significant brain injury which left him cognitively impaired. This case was successfully prosecuted with co-counsel from another state.

    • Awarded: $500,000

  • $425,000 - We represented a boy who was born with sickle cell disease, and also his parent, in a medial malpractice claim. The parents were aware that one of them carried the gene for sickle cell disease and they made the decision that the other parent would be tested and if that test was positive for the gene for sickle cell disease, they would adopt rather than have a child. They did not want to run the risk of having their child born with sickle cell disease. The defendant physician ran the wrong test which provided a false negative result. The parents then went ahead with their plans to have a child and their son was born with sickle cell disease. Under applicable Virginia law, the claim was restricted to the extraordinary medical expenses to care for the complications of sickle cell disease during this young man’s life, as well as his parent’s emotional distress over his condition. The case was mediated unsuccessfully on two occasions, but was subsequently settled through negotiations.

    • Awarded: $425,000

  • $325,000 - We represented a lady who had undergone surgery on her spine. Following surgery, her surgeon had ordered that she was to remain lying down. A hospital employee came in, in the early hours of the morning to draw blood, and sat the patient up despite her protestations that she was supposed to be lying down. This destroyed the spinal fusion which resulted in the patient undergoing further surgeries and left her in even more pain than she was in before the first surgery.

    • Awarded: $325,000

  • $260,000 - Our client, a 34 year-old woman, underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy at a hospital in Southwest Virginia. Her surgeon misidentified her anatomy and cut her common bile duct. When she went back to him with post-operative complications consistent with a bile duct injury, he failed to recognize the problem resulting in a further delay in appropriate medical treatment. The patient was ultimately hospitalized at a major medical center in North Carolina where she underwent surgical repair of the error. This case settled in mediation.

    • Awarded: $260,000

  • $230,000 - Our client, a 33 year-old woman, underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy at a rural hospital in Southwest Virginia. The surgeon negligently misidentified her anatomy and cut and clipped her common bile duct. The patient suffered significant problems and was ultimately admitted to a major medical center where she had to undergo two subsequent surgeries to repair the problem. The case was settled in mediation prior to taking any discovery depositions.

    • Awarded: $230,000

General

  • $2,000,000 - Our client, a 29 year-old factory worker, was crushed by a 900 pound weight at the plant where he worked resulting in numerous injuries including severe spinal fractures which had to be surgically repaired. The client was left with significant permanent impairment and while he was able to return to employment, suffered a significant loss in his earning capacity. Suit was filed against the manufacturer of the machine because of its defective design. The Defendants failed to answer the lawsuit within the appropriate timeframe and were held by the Court to be in default. Before a trial on the issue of damages could be held, counsel for the Defendants appeared and asked the Court to set aside the Default and let them defend the case on the issue of liability. Following a bitterly contested hearing on this issue, the Court refused to set aside the default and ordered a trial solely on the issue of damages. In a subsequent mediation the case was settled for $2,000,000.

    • Awarded: $2,000,000

  • $135,000 - Our client was visiting a friend’s home for a cookout when their deck separated from the house and collapsed. She was burned by the charcoal from the grill. She initially retained a large personal injury firm with offices throughout Western Virginia. They investigated the case and discovered that the contractor who had built the deck was out of business, had left the area and had no insurance. Two months before the statute of limitations was going to run, they dropped her case telling her there was nothing that could be done. When she came to us we quickly investigated and discovered that the deck had been built before her friends bought the house. We also discovered that no building permit had been obtained and as a result there had been no inspections of the deck even though both were required. We sued the company who had owned the house and hired the contractor on the theory they were negligent in not requiring a building permit which would have led to inspections. The case settled in mediation.

    • Awarded: $135,000

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