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Below are representative settlements and verdicts pursued and won by the Law Office of Gerald M. Oginski, LLC. After failing to reach satisfactory financial settlements with insurance companies, these New York residents came to Gerry seeking justice and fair compensation for the injuries they incurred as a result of a doctor’s, surgeon’s or hospital’s negligence, or from the negligence of a person or business entity. Gerry got them justice. Since 1988 Gerry has been helping injured people restore their dignity. Right now, you have a lot of choices to make and Gerry can help you make the choices that will get you what you need quickly, honorably, and with your dignity intact. Gerry will make every effort to help you maximize your benefits, while protecting you and your family.

Medical Malpractice

• $6,000,000- Misread stress test leads to permanent heart damage - A young man had chest pain and was evaluated in an emergency room and admitted to the hospital. He was given a stress test and cardiac workup. Unfortunately, the stress test was misread, leading to devastating heart damage that could have been prevented. (As much as we'd like to discuss more details of this tragic cardiac case, we cannot because of a confidentiality agreement between the parties.)
• $1,000,000 - A woman lost eyesight in one eye because a hospital failed to tell her about her brain tumor. This woman was involved in a car accident and suffered head trauma. She was taken to an emergency room where a CAT scan was done for her head. The doctor who evaluated the CAT scan correctly recognized an abnormal mass was growing in her brain-totally unrelated to her car accident and her recent trauma. The problem was that nobody told the patient about her growing brain tumor. This caused the tumor to grow and put pressure on the optic nerve, leading to blindness in one eye.
• $775,000 - A man lost eyesight in one eye because an eye doctor failed to recognize that the optic nerve was cut during surgery. A man was mugged and suffered broken bones in his face. The muscle that controlled movement of his eye from side to side got trapped in a broken bone and needed to be removed. The doctor who did the surgery claimed to be proficient in this surgery and chose to do the procedure rather than let a more experienced surgeon do it. After the surgery, the patient had no vision. Even after immediate corrective surgery, the nerve that controlled eyesight was totally destroyed, leaving the patient with permanent blindness in one eye.
• $750,000 - A woman died because her doctor failed to recognize massive infection following gynecologic surgery.
• $700,000 - Baby suffered brain damage from botched delivery.
• $580,000 - 67 year old woman aspirated while having a colonoscopy. The doctors failed to intubate, failed to give her sufficient oxygen, and failed to timely call an ambulance. She died two days later.
• $500,000 - Failure to timely diagnose lung cancer resulting in death
• $500,000 - Woman had to be emergently re-operated when knee surgery was botched.
• $490,000 - This patient was told she needed a hysterectomy because of an abnormal pap test that strongly suggested the patient had invasive cervical cancer, according to the doctor. The hysterectomy was done and pathology revealed the patient did not have invasive cancer.
• $415,000 - Woman died from failure to diagnose bladder cancer. She had been going to her local clinic for regular check-ups and for various complaints throughout the years. Urine tests revealed blood in her urine that was never followed up. Her complaints of spotting also were never properly followed up. In hindsight, these were significant warning signs that should have alerted the physician to get additional testing that would have revealed bladder cancer at an early stage.
• $350,000 - 4-year-old girl was misdiagnosed leading to double pneumonia, surgery and loss of part of her lung.
• $350,000 - Woman lost her uterus after doctors failed to recognize an infection following a tubal pregnancy.
• $325,000 - A family man died when a blood clot to his lungs was not properly treated, resulting in pain, suffering and an untimely death.
• $322,500 - A young man put his arm through a window and cut his arm badly. In the emergency room, the doctor stitching him up tied off the ulnar nerve in two separate places. If that wasn't bad enough, he failed to recognize the difference between a bleeding artery and a nerve, and never realized the injury he created. The young man required 2 corrective surgeries and now has limited sensation in his hand.
• $312,500 - A 25 year old woman had eyelid surgery performed that was botched and required corrective surgeries.
• $300,000 - A man bled to death from a ruptured gastric ulcer from orthopedic pain medication.
• $300,000 - Woman died from a misplaced feeding tube. This woman required a feeding tube after she suffered injuries from a house fire. While recuperating her feeding tube somehow became dislodged. When the doctors reinserted the feeding tube, they put in in the wrong place, causing all nutrition to flow into her abdomen, causing massive infection, leading to her untimely death.
• $300,000 - Man died from misdiagnosis of mesothelioma.
• $250,000 - Woman suffered coma and short term memory loss from improper administration of anesthesia.
• $240,000 - Woman had bowel perforated during laparoscopic surgery
• $229,000 - A man broke his arm and was put into a cast. When the cast was removed, his arm looked like a roller coaster. He required surgery to re-break his arm and had hardware inserted to hold the bone together.
• $220,000 - A woman suffered permanent bone loss because her dentist failed to recognize the extent of her dental decay.
• $200,000 - A woman needed emergency surgery when her first surgeon failed to remove a tumor.
• $200,000 - Woman suffered bowel perforation during surgery.
• $175,000 - A boy suffered the loss of a testicle because a hospital did not timely recognize that the testicle was twisted and needed immediate treatment.
• $175,000 - Young man died after hernia surgery because he was given too much anesthesia that went unmonitored
• $130,000 - Man had spinal fracture that radiologist misread.
• $125,000 - A little boy suffered burns from removal of a cast on his foot from improper use of a cast cutter.
• $90,000 - A dental patient was under the care of his dentist for over ten years. The dentist failed to recognize extensive decay, gum disease and bone loss during that time. The patient required dental reconstruction to restore his mouth to working condition.
• $50,000. - Dental Malpractice with corrective treatment

Personal Injury

• $197,500 - Man had hand cut when bouncer in a bar hit him with beer bottle.
• $185,000 - Woman slipped and fell on black ice resulting in femur fracture
• $105,000 - 82 year old man fell into a trench while crossing street resulting in fractured elbow, ambulatory surgery and physical therapy.
• $100,000 - Man crossing street at entrance to a parking lot hit by a car suffered serious injuries.
• $50,000 - A young man was riding his bicycle home from work when a car, making a left turn, ran into him, causing a fractured arm and torn meniscus requiring surgery. Unfortunately, the car had only a limited insurance policy.

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