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Mark Bower is a member of the Million Dollar
Advocates Forum.
He has won more than two dozen million dollar verdicts or settlements.
Our Noteworthy Verdicts and Settlement include:
 | Mark Bower obtained a $28,714,469 structured settlement for a badly scalded baby
("Klein v. Kennedy Enterprises"). |
| In 2006 a $26,965,000
structured settlement in Brooklyn, NY, for a baby injured at
birth by the use of the drug Cytotec ("Srulowitz" v
undisclosed defendants). |
| Mark Bower obtained a $16,000,000 structured settlement for a child who lost several
fingers due to a misplaced intravenous line ("Spellman v. N.Y.C.
Health & Hospitals Corp"). |
| In Fall of 2006, a $12,680,000
structured settlement in 2006, in Orange County, NY, for a
birth-injured baby. (Name withheld per confidentiality
agreement). |
| Mark Bower obtained a $9,200,000 structured settlement for a mother and baby where
the mother suffered endocarditis during pregnancy. (Campagna v. Weiss).
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| In 1996, Mark Bower and Bert
Fisher obtained a $7,400,000 settlement for several
family members who were severely burned by a Christmas tree fire
in their apartment, and could not flee, because burglar gates
blocked the way to fire escapes. ("Gondre" in Supreme Court,
Kings County). |
| In 1996, Mark Bower receive a $7,000,000 structured settlement
against a midwife, for a brain-damaged baby. ("Gilbert v.
Grayson", in the Supreme Court, N.Y. County). |
| In the Spring of 2000, Mark Bower and Joseph Lichtenstein recovered a
$5,250,000
structured settlement for a mildly brain-injured baby in an obstetrical
malpractice case, ("D'Amato v. Winthrop University Hospital", in
Nassau County, NY). |
| Also in 2000, Mark Bower's office obtained a
$4,500,000 verdict for a man struck by a collapsing ceiling
("O'Callaghan v. Walsh"). |
| Also in 1996, Mark Bower and
Joseph Lichtenstein obtained a $2,300,000
verdict for the death of a trackman from an undiagnosed heart attack. ("Pidgeon v.
Port Authority" in Supreme Court of New York County). |
| In the Fall of 2008, Mark Bower
settled a case for $2,150,000 for a 54-year-old bank
officer, whose internist failed to diagnose her tuberculosis
that progressed to tuberculosis meningitis, leaving her with
such serious brain damage that she required skilled nursing care
for the rest of her life.
 | This case is legally
noteworthy in that it extended New York's State of
Limitations for incompetent patients indefinitely "for the
duration of the disability," which in this case was the
patient's entire life expectancy, and was sustained by the
appellate court, ("Carrasquillo v. Zabarsky, MD). |
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| In 1999-2002, Mark Bower
collected almost $2,000,000 for children born with Erb's Palsy. |
| In 1996, Mark Bower
recovered $2,150,000 for a man whose esophagus perforated
when he accidentally swallowed a prune pit and two successive
emergency rooms failed to take a barium swallow study to detect
the foreign body ("Shoykhet v. Victory Memorial Hospital" in
Supreme Court, King's County). |
| In 1996, Mark Bower recovered
$1,650,000 for a woman whose breast cancer was reported on a
mammogram, but whose mammogram report was not communicated to
her physician. (Brull v. Methodist Hospital" in Supreme
Court, King's County). |
| In the Spring of 2006, Mark Bower
settled for $1,500,000 on behalf of a 79-year-old man who
suffered a stroke when his anticoagulation medication was
inappropriately discontinued by his PCP.(Name withheld per
confidentiality agreement). |
| In 2002, Mark Bower recovered $1,350,000, including the waiver
of a $200,000 lien, for the loss of a leg for a taxi driver, whose
fracture was mistreated by a N.Y.C. hospital. (Name withheld per
confidentiality agreement). |
| In June of 2007, Mark Bower and
Joseph Lichtenstein won a $1,000,000 verdict on behalf of
an 81 year old client who suffered a perforation of his colon
during a routine screening colonoscopy. (Mochizuki v. Hillside
Medical Group). |
| In the Fall of 2005, Mark Bower
and Joseph Lichtenstein obtained $1,000,000 settlement in
the medical mismanagement of a woman with a foot wound resulting
in her below the knee amputation. They settled the case
after the Plaintiff's case was in front of the jury.
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| In the Spring of 2006, Mark
Bower and Joseph Lichtenstein obtained $1,000,000
settlement in the missed diagnosis of a melanoma resulting in a
below the knee amputation in an 81-year-old man. They
settled the case after Mark Bower delivered his summation and
while the jury was deliberating (Name withheld per
confidentiality agreement). |
| In the Fall of 2005, Mark Bower
obtained a pre-trial settlement of $900,000 (the entire
insurance coverage), from a New York City HIP group in
bankruptcy,
for the failure to diagnose breast cancer in a 67 year old woman.
(Green v. New York Medical Group). |
| In the Fall of 2004, Mark Bower and Joseph
Lichtenstein recovered $800,000 for the death from undiagnosed
surgical complications of a man with kidney cancer. (Corelli v. Good
Samaritan Hospital in Supreme Court, Rockland County, NY). |
| In 2007 Mark Bower settled a case
for $650,000 for a college professor who suffered a
vertebral fracture of the cervical spine that was misinterpreted
on the spine x-ray, leaving him with neurologic dysfunction.
(Elman v. a major Brooklyn hospital and a member of its
radiology group) |
| In the Winter of 2000, Mark Bower and Mr. Lichtenstein recovered
$800,000
for a baby born with a terrible birth defect, a congenital
diaphragmatic hernia. ("Fraylich v. Maimonides Hospital" in the Supreme
Court, N.Y. County). |
| In the Fall of 2005, Mark Bower
recovered $750,000, a near-record settlement for upstate New
York, for a child with an Erb's Palsy injury (resulting from the
failure to properly deliver a large baby). The case is
noteworthy as we were awarded Summary Judgment on liability,
which is virtually unheard of in this kind of case. (Roser v.
Benedictine Hospital). |
| In the Spring of 2004, Mark Bower
obtained a $750,000 recovery, ($650,000 settlement with a
jury deliberating from one defendant, plus $100,000 from another
defendant who did not participate in the trial) for a
29-year-old man who fractured his hip, when he slipped and fell
on a defective sidewalk. ("Vyadro vs City of NY", Supreme Court,
Queens County). |
| In April 2001, Mark Bower settled an Erb's Palsy case against the NYC
Health & Hospitals Corp. for $600,000 (Mensah v.
NYCHHC). |
| In the Fall of 2001, he settled another Erb's Palsy case
for $650,000, which included an extraordinary $250,000
contribution from a pre-natal care doctor for mismanaging the
mother's diabetes during the pregnancy. Erb's Palsy,
a birth injury almost always due to obstetrical malpractice. |
| In early 2006, Mark Bower obtained
a pre-trial settlement of $550,000 for a delayed
diagnosis of colon cancer in a 65-year-old woman. There
was no evidence of recurrence of the cancer, though she was at a
higher risk for recurrence due to the late discovery allowing
the cancer to reach Stage 3. |
| In the Fall of 2005, Mark Bower
obtained a pre-trial settlement of $550,000 (in Westchester County, a particularly unfriendly venue for malpractice
claims) for the estate of a Hispanic woman, who died of endocervical
cancer when a Pap smear was improperly taken. |
| In the Fall of 2005, Mark Bower
recovered $550,000 on behalf of a 68-year-old
woman, whose colon cancer was not recognized by her medical
group. |
| In 2007, Mark Bower recovered an
undisclosed amount for the death of a Jamaican teenager from a
pulmonary embolism, after being immobilized following an
orthopedic procedure without having received prophylaxis against
deep vein thrombosis. (St. Hillaire v. an orthopedic group on
Long Island). |
| In the Spring of 2005, Mark Bower recovered
$400,000 for a woman suffering a tracheal stricture, following
intubation for asthma. ("Bruce v. NYCHHC" in Supreme Court, Bronx County,
NY). |
| In the Fall of 2004 Mark Bower recovered
$400,000 for a chemotherapy mishap in a patient dying of brain cancer.
(Goldstein v. Good Samaritan Hospital) in Supreme Court, Suffolk County, NY. |
| In October, 2000 Mark Bower settled a case for
$225,000 involving a hand injury
that the patient sustained while he was under anesthesia undergoing cardiac bypass
surgery.
(Carey v. St. Luke's Hospital), N.Y. County. |
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Past results do not guarantee similar results in the future.
    
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