Verdicts and Settlements

Below are some of the results NY injury law firm Rubenstein & Rynecki has obtained for its clients—

$8.75 million for a man who was sodomized by a NYC police officer in a police precinct bathroom

$25 million verdict (reduced on appeal) for a family who suffered the loss of two children in a tragic motor vehicle accident in Greenwich Village

$5 million for the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of medical malpractice at a Bronx hospital

$3.7 million (structured settlement) for the family of a yellow cab driver who died in a fiery crash with a private sanitation truck

$1 million for a 17-year-old Brooklyn youth whose leg was severely fractured when struck by a car while standing in a pedestrian median zone in Brooklyn

$3 million for the family of an African immigrant wrongly shot and killed by a police officer during a raid on a warehouse in Chelsea

$22.9 million verdict (reduced on appeal) for a motorcyclist struck by a milk truck in Queens

$1.45 million for a Bronx woman for a medical malpractice case where a surgeon failed to properly perform spinal cord surgery resulting in a stroke

$2.8 million (structured settlement) for a Brooklyn boy caused to suffer epileptic seizures after being struck in the head by a large chunk of ceiling in his mother's bedroom

$1 million for a Brooklyn parochial student whose classmates forced him to cross-dress based on a teacher's order

$1.1 million for the family of a Haitian woman who died following childbirth as a result of medical malpractice

$750,000 for a 6-year-old boy whose leg was mangled when he was thrown from a ride in a Brooklyn amusement park

$900,000 for victim of elevator accident

$900,000 for a Canarsie grandmother who was struck by a motorist while backing out of his driveway

$2.5 million for a man who suffers permanent short-term memory loss from a head trauma as a result of a motor vehicle accident

$2 million for the family of a Jamaican woman whose death in a psychiatric ward was captured on a shocking video that depicted hospital staff ignoring her for hours

$1.5 million for the family of a woman who died as a result of the failure to recognize and properly treat respiratory distress during labor and delivery

$2.5 million for a boy who suffered a brain injury caused by being struck by a DWI driver which resulted in toughened DWI penalties in New York State

$2.5 million from the City of New York to the family of United Nations security guard who died as a result of the Staten Island "Andrew J. Barberi" ferry crash

$1.25 million for victims of negligent driving by police officer

$1.5 million for a New York City cab driver wrongly shot by police

$1.5 million for a Brooklyn longshoreman who suffered a severe stroke as the result of medical malpractice in the failure to diagnose his vascular disease

$7 million verdict (reduced on appeal) for two badly burned victims when the car in which they were riding plummeted through a fence onto the tracks in a LIRR yard

$4.5 million for a young woman paralyzed as the result of medical malpractice at a Manhattan hospital

$7.15 million for the wrongful death of the father of two and damages for injured victims in case of police firing a 50-shot barrage

$175,000 for wrongfully arrested Florida man

$400,000 for telephone repairmen roughed up and falsely arrested by traffic cops

$300,000 for Haitian man beaten by cop at motor vehicle office in Brooklyn

$440,000 for victims of police brutality at Caribbean parade

$75,000 for photojournalist, a victim of excessive force and false arrest by police while trying to photograph police misconduct

$7 million for railroad accident on LIRR

$440,000 for victim of train derailment

$1.9 million settlement for Florida victims of collision between pedicab and bus

$250,000 for child injured as a result of negligent supervision of students at school

$1 million for woman who fell as the result of negligently constructed staircase

Representing victims since 1972

Rubenstein & Rynecki and its predecessor firms have been representing victims since 1972. If you or a loved one has been hurt in an accident, major or minor, suffered medical malpractice or been a victim of police misconduct, you may be entitled to money damages. Rubenstein & Rynecki may be able to help you. No recovery, no fee. Contact us today for a free consultation.