Medical Malpractice Legal Glossary

$32.25 Million: Settlement for a tragic airplane crash.

$17.5 Million: Jury verdict in teens' death.

$12 million: Million Forklift accident victim who lost her leg.

$7.5 Million: Bench verdict to a child rendered paraplegic as a result of an accident.

$6.9 Million: Settlement when a garbage truck rammed a car

$6.5 Million: Settlement to a man brain injured by a garbage truck

$5 Million: Settlement for Lackawanna County Woman in Medical Negligence Case

$5 Million: Business Torts Litigation Settlement Announced

$4.3 Million: Jury award for a motorcycle rider.

$3.9 Million: 9-11 Victims Fund Award (Volunteer Services by Atty. Daniel W. Munley)

$3.5 Million: Settlement for a 76 year old woman hit by a drunk driver

$3 Million: Jury award for woman misdiagnosed with cancer

$2.8 Million: Settlement for a boy killed by a truck

$2.74 Million: 9-11 Victims Fund Award (Volunteer Services by Atty. Marion Munley)

$2 Million: Settlement from Foreign Medical Device Manufacturer

$1.8 Million: Jury award for a woman who lost her leg in a forklift accident

$1.8 Million: Settlement for tractor trailer accident that caused a woman's death

$1.6 million: 9-11 Victims Fund Award (Volunteer Services by Atty. Matthew A. Cartwright)

$1.5 Million: Jury verdict against Wachovia Bank for breach of verbal loan agreement.

$1.5 Million: Woman Receives Settlement in Newspaper Delivery Crash

$1.3 Million: Jury verdict for Clarks Summit woman in tractor-trailer accident

$1.2 Million: Settlement for a 7 year old boy hit by a bus at a local camp

$1 Million: Man Receives Settlement for Botched Abdominal Surgery

$1 Million: Jury award for crush injury to trucker's foot

$1 Million : Settlement when a 69 year old man was killed by a tractor trailer.

$969,000: Jury award for man electrocuted while changing a light bulb

$950,000: Settlement on behalf of the family of a teenager killed in an automobile crash.

$850,000: Massachusetts-based trucking company and its driver agreeing to pay an $850,000 settlement

$750,000.00: Settlement for truck driver with multiple rotator cuff surgeries. Click here for more information.

$700,000: Settlement for truck driver who was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer and sustained herniated discs requiring surgery.

$700,000: Jury verdict against a hospital for the fall of an 89 year old woman in their care

$600,000: Settlement for medical malpractice.

$600,000: Settlement for death of 92-year-old woman strangulated in a restraining vest

$700,000 : $700,000 Elder Care Nursing Home Case

$540,000: Bench award for 2 boys killed on railroad tracks when their ATV got stuck

$400,000: Jury verdict for a plumber burned in a gasoline explosion while working on a sewer line.

$400,000: Jury award to a man seriously injured in a motor vehicle collision

$400,000: Jury award for Shavertown man's neck injuries

$379,000: 9-11 Victims Fund Award (Volunteer Services by Atty. Julia K. Munley)

$350,000: Jury verdict for patient who fell from gurney in medical complex.

$350,000: Woman awarded $350K for injuries.

$325,000: Settlement for our clients hit by drunk driver who went into clients' lane of travel and hit head on - neck & back injuries

$300,000: Jury verdict against an area nightclub in attack by bouncers on patron.

$300,000: Lycoming County Jury Award to policeman struck and injured by drunk driver.

$275,000: Jury verdict for a woman broadsided on a country road

$158,500: Jury verdict for MTBE underground storage tank spill contamination.

$150,000: Attorney Marion Munley wins verdict over AIDS scare

$125,000: Settlement for a woman who was rear-ended in Luzerne County.

$65,000: Jury verdict for a woman who was rear-ended in Wayne County.

$40,000: Settlement for a woman who was rear-ended in Luzerne County.