About Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria is a full-service Buffalo, New York law firm that has served clients in Western New York and across the country for over 50 years. With approximately 50 attorneys, the firm handles personal injury, medical malpractice, workers' compensation, criminal defense, business and corporate law, estates and trusts, labor and employment, real estate, and intellectual property matters from offices in Buffalo, Amherst (NY), and Los Angeles.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
An Erie County jury awarded $100 million to a woman sexually abused over four years beginning at age 12, the largest Child Victims Act verdict in New York State history.
A Monroe County jury ordered former Rochester Catholic priest Foster Rogers to pay $95 million to a man he sexually assaulted in 1979, when the victim was 15 years old, in one of the largest Child Victims Act verdicts in New York history.
An Erie County jury awarded $65 million to a woman who was sexually abused over seven years as a child by former Buffalo YMCA counselor James B. Jackson, in one of the largest verdicts under New York's Child Victims Act.
An Erie County jury awarded $30 million to a man who was sexually abused as a child by Rev. Douglas D. Thore, a Lutheran pastor in Marilla, NY, in what was reported as the largest Child Victims Act verdict in Western New York at the time.
An Erie County jury awarded $25 million to a man sexually abused by his Boy Scout troop leader in Cheektowaga during the early 1970s, in what presiding Judge Mark Grisanti described as the first jury verdict reached under New York's Child Victims Act.
A Niagara County jury awarded $8.8 million to a 16-year-old girl whose right arm was severed by a tractor-driven post-hole digger with a defectively designed safety shield, a verdict the New York Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed in April 2014.
A Monroe County jury unanimously awarded $5.45 million, including $3 million in punitive damages, to a man who was sexually abused as a child by Father Joseph Grasso, principal of Siena Catholic Academy in Brighton, New York.
Town of West Seneca's insurers paid $4.65 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit after police shot unarmed Buffalo man Jeffrey Edwards behind the ear in 2010, leaving him quadriplegic until his death four years later.
Noah Giusiana was arrested in Buffalo in June 2017 after an off-duty police officer working security at a movie theater took him to the pavement. A brain bleed went unrecognized while he was held in a police cell, and he needed emergency surgery. In 2023 he settled his claims against the City of Buffalo and the other defendants for $2.9 million combined.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
Proven verdicts and settlements from other Buffalo firms
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
Attorneys at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
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