Shlesinger & deVilleneuve Attorneys, P.C.

$1M

Product Liability

We sued the seller of a dangerously defective whipped cream dispenser. Our client was injured when the product exploded while used in the normal course. Our client sustained serious injuries, including a traumatic brain injury with a crushed skull, hematoma, and blood loss. We successfully prosecuted the claim and obtained a court judgment against the seller for $1,001,987.17.

$405,045

Wrongful Death

We represented a family in a wrongful death case involving a claim that defendant negligently provided access to a firearm facilitating a suicide. The case went to trial and we won. We obtained judgment in the amount of $405,045.

$600,000

Auto Accident

We represented a client who was a passenger in her family’s car, which, at the time of the accident, was driven by her husband. Husband lost control in snow and ice on a mountain pass car came to a stop. After the client and her husband got out of their car, another car crashed into them, trapping our client between her car and the guard rail. She sustained significant injuries, resulting in her leg being amputated. Before retaining our firm, the client had settled with the at-fault driver’s insurance for $25,000. After an exhaustive review of all her options, we negotiated a settlement of the maximum $300,000 policy limits on her underinsurance liability coverage. On top of that, we were able to negotiate with her husband’s liability coverage for the maximum limits of another $300,000.

$675,000

Semi vs. Pedestrian Accident

Our client was on the job as a parking lot security attendant. She was inspecting the tags in the rear of one semi-trailer when another truck came up behind her and failed to come to a complete stop, allowing his truck to roll forward and strike our client, pinning her between the two trucks. As a result, our client sustained multiple injuries, including a laceration to her liver, rib fractures, pelvic fractures, and multiple fractures to her right leg. Before filing a lawsuit, the other insurance company requested a mediation where we were able to settle the claim for $675,000 successfully.

$940,000

Auto Accident

Our clients were a mother and son. Son was the driver of the vehicle that was struck in an intersection on a country road by the defendant driving a large pickup. Mother sustained serious injuries, including a spinal fracture, rotator cuff tear, pulmonary embolism, and meniscal tear. Son also sustained multiple injuries, including rib fractures, labral tear of the right shoulder requiring surgical repair, disk herniation, multiple lacerations, and abrasions. The insurance company for the at-fault driver refused to accept liability or make any settlement offers. Our team wasted no time filing a lawsuit and engaged in extensive document discovery and multiple depositions. We also lined up our experts to prove liability completely rested with the other driver. Just before the trial, we participated in a settlement with the judge and were able to settle the cases for a total of $940,000.

$1M

Auto Accident

Our client was hit head-on by a vehicle driven by a driver that had not only medications but marijuana in her system. Our client was forever rendered incapacitated and in prolonged loss of consciousness/vegetative state. The lawyers for the driver denied liability and refused to offer an any compensation. We wasted no time and a lawsuit was filed on behalf of our client. After securing witnesses, prolonged discovery, and extensive case preparation on behalf of our client, we were able to get the driver’s insurance company to pay out their policy limits of $1,000,000!