About Max Humann

Max Humann represents individuals who have suffered a personal injury. He advocates for the rights of his clients, working to recover damages that will assist in compensating them for the injury they have endured. Mr. Humann is experienced in successfully recovering monetary damages for clients who have suffered injuries as the result of a wide array of accidents, including automobile accidents, workplace accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, and slip and fall accidents. Mr. Humann is a member of Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria's Accidents and Personal Injury Practice Area, which has earned several peer recognition awards. In the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms", Lipsitz Green was honored with 14 Buffalo Tier-1 rankings, including recognition for: Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs; Medical Malpractice Law-Plaintiffs; and Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria

These results are credited to Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$100 millionVerdictTop 20 in New York · #13

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2023Read the full story →
$95 millionVerdictTop 20 in New York · #15

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Monroe County · 2023Read the full story →
$65 millionVerdictTop 20 in New York · #20

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2022Read the full story →
$30 millionVerdict

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2022Read the full story →
$25 millionVerdict

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2022Read the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

State University of New York at Buffalo
J.D., 2004
State University of New York at Buffalo
Undergraduate, 2001

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.