FEATURED CASES

A young theatre intern, 22, was walking across the intersection of 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan when she was suddenly struck by the rear gate of a passing flatbed truck which had flown open because it had been improperly secured by the driver. Initially, the plaintiff was treated and released by the hospital where she was treated for minor dental injuries and a concussion. However as the weeks passed, she felt funny and spaced out frequently. After several attempts she finally found a neurologist who diagnosed traumatic epilepsy which was directly caused by the accident.

At trial, Paul Dansker was able with the assistance of exceptional experts to prove that not only was the epilepsy caused by the accident but it was permanent and progressive, meaning getting progressively worse and was not able to be effectively treated for any length of time by existing medications.

NOTE: It was an exceptionally good result given the fact that the plaintiff at the time of trial showed no signs of obvious injury or impairment and looked completely recovered.

A 43-year-old bookkeeper was walking along the water at the base of Manhattan in the pedestrian park known as Battery Park when she was struck by a speeding motorcycle. The police officer operating the motorcycle was on his way to a non-emergency event...directing traffic for a race being run downtown.

Angela was thrown 30 feet in the air and landed on her head. She sustained multiple skull fractures and internal bleeding in her brain leaving her with complete loss of smell and taste, emotional instability and permanent vertigo.

This case was in the news, both television and print when it came out that despite the gross negligence of the police officer, the City billed Angela for cost of the damage to the motorcycle!

Christian, 4, was brought to the hospital for a routine droopy eyelid repair. The hospital in a cost cutting measure had contracted out it's anesthesia services to a third party corporation who were saving money by employing mostly nurse practitioners instead of trained doctors to administer anesthesia. The nurse designated to anesthetize Christian was as it turned out was not even certified. Only minutes after the child was wheeled in, his heart stopped from an overdoes of Halothane gas and he ultimately was without oxygen for fifteen minutes. He had to be removed to another hospital where he had to be retrained to talk and walk again. Ultimately, at the time of trial eight years later, Christian was learning at a first grade level, couldn't tie his shoes or ride a bike. The Hospital doctors claimed that he either had an allergic reaction to the gas, or was that way before the incident or both. Regardless, the defendants ultimately agreed to settle at the end of a five week trial before the jury deliberated.

Brain Injuries

DANSKER & ASPROMONTE ARE SKILLED, HIGHLY QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED BRAIN INJURY PROFESSIONALS WITH OVER $100 MILLION RECOVERED FOR OUR CLIENTS IN THIS CATEGORY ALONE

Dansker & Aspromonte Associates are Brain Injury Lawyers with Results Exceeding $100 Million in Damages.

The term "brain damage" encompasses a wide variety of extremely serious injuries. More accurately, "brain damage" is mostly a general heading for a wide array of diverse serious injuries to the white and gray matter and connected nerves of the part of your body that dictates thought, speech, intelligence, memory, movement, personality, executive functioning, vision, balance, emotion and related functions.

The brain injury attorneys at Dansker & Aspromonte have handled hundreds of serious brain damage cases with results exceeding $100 million dollars in damage for our clients.

Our brain injury cases are extensive and include:

comatose patients
permanent vertigo
the loss of all sense of smell and taste
fractured skulls
reduction in IQ
traumatic retardation
traumatic epilepsy
cognitive dysfunction
brain hemorrhage
swelling of the brain
subdural hematoma
cerebral palsy

Many of these injuries, such as a fractured skull or brain hemorrhage, are easy to identify and prove because they show up on objective tests such as an X-ray or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging).

The loss of IQ or change in personality or executive functioning is much more complicated, as these would never be expected to show up on any film. Most often they are the result of a closed head injury where there is no skull fracture or bleeding. The injured party feels different and claims their memory or thoughts are impaired. They seem confused and calculations which were easy for them pre-accident become difficult or impossible after a head injury.

In these cases, proof requires multiple batteries of clinical psychological testing by a skilled clinical psychologist. Instead of an X-ray, a clinical psychologist is able to map or diagram the specific area of the brain affected with psychological certainty using the results of the written tests they administer.

The brain injury lawyers at Dansker & Aspromonte work with many of the top doctors in New York who provide this kind of testing.

We have a great deal of experience with these closed head injuries and welcome your inquiries and questions about these serious injuries.

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