2011 has already proven to be a great success for Meyerson & O’Neill. Specifically, since January 1st, Meyerson & O’Neill has accomplished the following results of one million dollars or more:

• Injunctive Relief Intellectual Property: Trademark Claim -- Meyerson & O’Neill secured a preliminary injunction on behalf of a television sales personality and book publisher whose career was threatened by a trademark claim. Meyerson & O’Neill sought and secured an injunction declaring the competing trademark claim unfounded, enabling our client to proceed with his very successful television and publishing career. The resolution of the case also included a substantial cash settlement in favor of our client due to the adversaries’ infringement of his trademark and tortious interference with his existing contracts.
• A medical malpractice settlement of approximately $1.9 million against a Philadelphia area radiology group. Our client went to the hospital emergency room with complaints of stomach pain. The CT scan to confirm a diagnosis of diverticulitis reported normal kidney shadows. The “normal kidney shadows” in reality was a 5 cm malignant tumor in the patient’s kidney. Had the radiologist accurately read the CT scan the kidney could have been removed and the patient would have had a high probability of survival. By the time a diagnosis was made the cancer had metastasized and the outlook was much bleaker. We recommended a structured settlement to our client which will provide lifetime financial security for the entire family.
• A products liability recovery against the manufacturers of ski equipment which was defectively designed causing our client to literally come out of his ski boots and fall more than 1,000 feet, sustaining a devastating injury.
• A pharmaceutical product liability recovery against the manufacturer of a contact lens solution that was not properly tested before being sold to the public causing extremely painful and permanent damage to our client such that she is now blind in one eye.
• A mass tort recovery against a pharmaceutical manufacturer that failed to warn doctors and consumers of the dangers of heart attacks, strokes and even death associated with the use of their prescription drug product.
• A $1.45 million medical malpractice wrongful death recovery against a hospital based on substandard Emergency Room service and the incorrect diagnosis that our client was suffering from a stiff neck. Instead, our client, a juvenile, died one day later after being examined and released from the Emergency Room with a MRSA infection and Meningitis.

We continue to work on a number of similar product liability, medical, malpractice, legal malpractice and pharmaceutical drug cases. For a free consultation on a similar case, please call our office at (215) 972-1376.

• $1.75 million result for a North Jersey woman. Our client required emergency hernia surgery but the doctor would not come to the hospital on the weekend. As a result, by the time she underwent surgery, the hernia had strangled and killed a large portion of her colon and digestive tract.   Her first attorney, who we subsequently sued, did not thoroughly study the medical records and, as a result, sued the wrong doctor which resulted in the client’s loss of her medical malpractice claim.
  
  Meyerson & O’Neill instituted a legal malpractice case against the lawyer who mishandled the medical malpractice case. Ultimately, success was achieved and after 8 years of suffering and delay, the client received just compensation and financial security.
• A legal malpractice action on behalf of a woman who suffered serious and significant medical complications from a gallbladder surgery. Her attorney failed to file a certificate of merit to support her medical malpractice case, thereby preventing her medical malpractice claim from proceeding. The subsequent legal malpractice case brought by Meyerson & O’Neill led to a resolution that was substantially in excess of six figures.
• A legal malpractice action in West Virginia on behalf of a client whose lawyer in a wrongful death and medical malpractice action involving a doctor’s failure to diagnose an aneurism failed to initiate suit against the doctor within the statute of limitations. The lawyer then lied to the client about the dismissal and loss of the case. The settlement of Meyerson & O’Neill’s legal malpractice claim was substantially in excess of six figures.
• Three legal malpractice actions against the same attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who negligently represented clients in serious medical malpractice cases – one involving a gastrointestinal injury during a fertility treatment, another involving negligent performance of ankle replacement surgery resulting in ankle amputation, and negligent performance of claw toe revision surgery. His egregious acts of professional legal negligence resulted in his clients’ medical malpractice cases being dismissed. Settlement was in excess of six figures.

• A $2 million trial verdict against a physician in a medical malpractice case for failure to diagnose cancer.
• An $800,000 settlement for a woman whose eyesight was permanently damaged during experimental eye surgery which was deliberately performed without FDA or an IRB (Independent Review Board) approval.
• Substantial settlements in medical malpractice cases involving obstetrics, including compensation to the family of a stillborn baby following fetal distress.
• A life long annuity for a child born handicapped with shoulder dystocia.
• A $750,000 settlement for a working woman who sustained a permanent intestinal/digestive injury from a medical error during gall bladder surgery.

• A $3.2 million products liability settlement for a young woman who was injured at work when a one ton bag of a chemical compound fell on her and rendered her a paraplegic.
• A $2.2 million verdict in favor of the Philadelphia Phillies team trainer injured in an elevator fall case.
• A $1.5 million settlement with a life time tax free annuity in a product liability case involving a defective door lock on a motor vehicle.
• Lifetime financial security and health care for a young woman who suffered a devastating stroke after taking a dietary supplement containing ephedra.

• One of the largest civil rights settlements against the City of Philadelphia based upon the conduct of an off-duty police officer who shot and killed a civilian with his service revolver.
• A civil rights lawsuit in federal court in Colorado on behalf of a client who developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome as a result of the defendants’ deliberate indifference to his medical needs while incarcerated. Settlement was in excess of six figures.
• A civil rights action in the Middle District of Pennsylvania on behalf of a client who was falsely accused of and prosecuted for arson. Settlement was substantially in excess of half a million dollars.
• A $3.75 million settlement of a 260-member racial discrimination class action suit against a Fortune 500 company.

• Lifetime financial security for a woman seriously injured by a drunk driver. The establishment served the driver more alcohol after he was visibly intoxicated and was found to be liable for more than $900,000 in damages.

• An injunction for a client enforcing a covenant not to compete on real estate which precluded competing businesses from opening in close proximity to the client's business.

• A $1.6 million dollar buy out settlement for a minority shareholder who hired Meyerson & O’Neill after he had been locked out of management and not allowed to review the company books and financial records. The majority owner was diverting cooperate opportunities to another business he controlled at the expense of the business he shared with our client.