About Laraine Kelley
Laraine Kelley has decades of experience in personal injury litigation, with a focus on medical malpractice and product liability law. Peers, opposing counsel, and members of the judiciary recognize Ms. Kelley as one of the nation's preeminent medical malpractice attorneys. Ms. Kelley provides answers for victims of medical malpractice who seek to understand: what went wrong; who is at fault.
And how the negligent may be held accountable. Over the course of her career, Ms. Kelley has represented thousands of clients who were injured in a wide spectrum of catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice matters, including: birth injury cancer misdiagnosis cerebral palsy delayed diagnosis emergency room error medication error nurse error nursing home negligence optometry error surgery error construction accidents defective products As a result of decades of experience litigating complex medical malpractice matters, Ms. Kelley has a mastery of medical knowledge that rivals healthcare professionals. Ms. Kelley's legal skill, medical knowledge, and investment of resources, levels the playing field for clients who are battling medical professionals, large institutions, and insurance companies.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
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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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.