Successful Case Results The Law Offices of Binder & Associates has obtained personal injury verdicts and settlements totaling well over $75 Million dollars in cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice, sexual harassment, workplace injury and other wrongdoing. Most of these settlements have been for more than six figures. Below you'll find a sampling of our verdicts, judgments and settlements: * ABC v. XYZ -- $13,480,000.00 settlement. Plane crash resulting in wrongful death. Decedent traveled to the east coast to evaluate a plane for purchase. During the test flight, the plane sustained a catastrophic engine failure. Witnesses on the ground observed the plane at about 3500 to 3000 feet without any engine power. The plane circled for several minutes, without power and out of control, ultimately striking several trees prior to impacting the ground and exploding. Investigation revealed that the Torquemeter Gearshaft assembly failed, resulting in a complete loss of power to the engine. The part in question had only 25 hours of service. Martin v. City of Huntington Park -- $486,000.00 settlement for a police officer who sued the Huntington Park Police Department for discrimination and harassment. Black v. Yuja, M.D., Inc. -- $2,922,275.00 (future value) jury verdict for a medical malpractice/wrongful death action involving the mis-diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Case went on appeal and was later settled for a confidential sum. In October of 1997, Glori Black found a small lump in her abdomen. To rule out cancer, she underwent an operation. Glori's surgeon removed a huge ovarian mass. He sent the tumor to the lab for diagnosis to determine how he should proceed with the surgery. Defendant, chief pathologist of the Ventura hospital, carelessly tested the mass and incorrectly diagnosed it to be dysgerminoma. About 5 months later, in 1998, Glori felt pain in her abdomen again. Within a month, an ultrasound showed another large abdominal mass. Glori was referred to Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center. The doctors at Cedars discovered that Glori Black did not have dysgerminoma. Instead, she had a very aggressive form of cancer which had spread throughout her abdomen. At twenty-two years old, Glori died in December 1998, about 8 months after she was correctly diagnosed. Glori was survived by her husband and son who was five years old. Binder & Associates assembled a terrific team of medical experts to testify at trial, and prevailed despite the fact that at least one of defendant's experts was supposedly world renowned from Harvard. * ABC v. XYZ -- $2,500,000.00 settlement. Medical malpractice case involving delayed diagnosis of meningococcimia on 10 year old boy resulting in quadruple amputation. Plaintiff brought a civil action to recover for the damages caused to plaintiff by defendants' medical malpractice when plaintiff presented to an Emergency Room. The ER staff and doctor failed to provide plaintiff with essentially any care that he desperately needed to survive his bout of meningitis. Finally recognizing his critical condition, the hospital transferred plaintiff to another hospital. Despite magnificent efforts by the other hospital=s pediatric intensive care unit, they could not undo the damage done by the delay plaintiff suffered from defendants' failure to care for him. Thanks to the second hospital's doctors, the then 10-year-old plaintiff survived. Had he received fluids and medicines as he should have at the previous hospital, however, he would have had a much different result. He likely would have suffered no amputations at all, or only lost fingers, or toes, or even a hand or a foot. But because of the inexcusable delay in treatment at the first hospital, the second doctors were forced to amputate all of plaintiff's arms and legs. * ABC v. XYZ -- $500,000.00 settlement for a man who was assaulted by employees of a fast food restaurant. * ABC v. XYZ -- $3,270,000.00 settlement not including an additional $2,000,000.00 structured settlement in a wrongful death action arising out of a construction site accident. Plaintiffs' decedent, an independent business owner and trucking contractor, was killed when he was physically run over by his own dump truck which was rammed from the rear by one of the defendants who was operating a bulldozer. At that time, plaintiff's decedent was underneath his truck inspecting lose wires. The decedents wife and two children sued a number of contractors and sub-contractors, whose defense was that the decedent had been instructed to not exit his truck while in the construction zone. Binder & Associates meticulously reviewed thousands of pages of documents and found the smoking gun which led to the settlement. * ABC v. XYZ -- $1,800,000.00 settlement in a wrongful death automobile accident case, which stems from the wrongful death of plaintiffs' teenage daughter. At the time of her death, the daughter lived with her parents. She was seventeen, (17), years old and preparing to enter her senior year of high school. Prior to her death, the decedent was riding as a passenger in defendants vehicle while their daughter and a co-defendant was driving. While on their way to a friend=s house, the co-defendant struck a parked moving van, which was owned by other defendants and illegally parked on a highway overpass. As a result of the impact with the moving van, decedent suffered a traumatic injury which knocked her unconscious. She never regained consciousness. She was in a coma with life support which was thereafter discontinued. Bernard v. Clearman's Steak and Stein -- $800,000.00 settlement of workers' compensation case involving back injuries. * Confidential settlement; thus, cannot reveal the names of plaintiff or defendant.