$60m jury verdict awarded to a woman who suffered an aneurysm rupture while staying at a hotel. The staff neglected to check the room following requests from her husband to perform a welfare check. Due to the several hour delay in receiving urgently needed medical care, the woman has complete anterograde amnesia and has permanently lost the ability to learn or retain any new information. After penalties and interest were added to the verdict, the Plaintiffs were paid $104M.
Itella Foods manufactured a batch of seafood salad that had listeria-contaminated onions, causing them to recall the product. The insurer claimed that the product itself was not insured and therefore denied the claim, but the Biren Law Group won a summary judgment and the insurance claim was settled for $500,000. A jury later awarded punitive damages.
Confidential settlement against an insurer who failed to settle within its insured’s $15,000 policy limits with a young man who was seriously injured (incomplete paraplegia in a motorcycle accident caused by the insured. The young man sued the insured and obtained a $20 million verdict against him. The settlement was for both the insured (who sued for the financial and emotional damage he suffered as a result of the trial) and the injured young man, who jointly sued the insurance company for bad faith.”
Irving Tushner sold the loan division of his business to a bank, but retained the option to re-purchase it within a year for $1 million, but the bank refused to sell it back to him when he attempted to exercise that option. The Biren Law Group proved that the defendant’s defense was untrue.
Matthew Biren won a $4.3 million verdict for a Chinese national who suffered brain damage after being ejected from an automobile. The trial occurred after the defendant’s insurance company failed to timely tender their $100,000 policy limits.
William Marthe was killed while driving home from work when a big rig truck sideswiped his pickup truck, spinning him into the path of another big rig truck. Through sophisticated accident reconstruction, the Biren Law Group established that the driver of the lead big rig caused the accident that killed Mr. Marthe.
Matthew B.F. Biren settled a case on the eve of trial for $4 million for a mechanic who suffered multiple leg and pubic bone fractures when a commercial quality heavy duty jack that was holding up a bus failed.
Matthew Biren won a $3.5 million verdict for a man whose motorcycle was cut off by an oil tanker truck, resulting in severe leg and facial injuries.
Doe’s dog ran into the street, causing a city truck to swerve, throwing two gardeners out the back end and causing them serious injuries. The gardeners’ lawyers offered to settle for Doe’s insurance limit of $100,000, but the insurance company refused and, when the case went to trial, a $2.6 million verdict was reached. The insurance company only paid $100,000, so the Biren Law Group brought a bad faith claim on behalf of Doe, obtaining $835,000 in compensation for Doe and the remaining $2.5 million due to the gardeners.