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About Hess & Leibowitz, PLLC
Hess & Leibowitz, PLLC is a Manhattan personal injury and medical malpractice firm serving clients in New York and New Jersey. It is the successor practice of Simonson, Hess & Leibowitz, P.C. (later Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman, P.C.), the firm where name partner Steven L. Hess tried Miraglia v. H&L Holding Corp. to an $86.7 million Bronx verdict in 2004. The firm's attorneys have handled thousands of personal injury and medical malpractice cases over more than four decades, covering construction accidents, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, pharmaceutical claims, and wrongful death.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Hess & Leibowitz, PLLC
On February 13, 2004, a Bronx jury awarded $86,735,134 to Frank Miraglia, a 45 year old construction laborer who fell into a trench when an unsecured plank collapsed under him and was impaled on a steel rebar that severed his spinal cord, leaving him a paraplegic. Steven L. Hess, then of Simonson, Hess & Leibowitz, P.C., was trial counsel; the firm continues today as Hess & Leibowitz, PLLC. The honest frame: the trial judge reduced the award to $25,030,134, and in January 2007 the Appellate Division, First Department trimmed it further, sustaining $5 million for past pain and suffering, conditioning the future pain and suffering award on a reduction from $10 million to $5 million (a reduction Miraglia accepted by stipulation), and cutting future medical expenses to $8,056,222, which left the judgment at just under $20 million.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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