About Thomas C. Burnham
Thomas C. Burnham fights to ensure disabled individuals receive all the benefits they are entitled to. He focuses on several areas of disability law, including: Social Security Disability Supplemental Security Income Workers' Compensation Mr. Burnham's insight in multiple areas of disability law helps to ensure his clients obtain all of their entitled benefits. His knowledge and experience have drawn the attention of other lawyers, who often refer their clients to Mr. Burnham for guidance through the challenging process of applying for Social Security and workers' compensation. Mr. Burnham has helped hundreds of Social Security clients and their families obtain the benefits they deserve. In just this past year, Mr. Burnham has helped his Social Security clients obtain over $1 million in retroactive benefits.
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.