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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.
Recent Cases include:
 | a $28,714,469 structured settlement for a badly scalded baby
("Klein v. Kennedy Enterprises"). |
| 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"). |
| a $9,200,000 structured settlement for a mother and baby where
the mother suffered endocarditis during pregnancy ("Campagna v.
Weiss"). |
| 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 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 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. |
| In the Fall of 2005, Mark Bower
obtained a pre-trial settlement of $1,000,000 (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 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 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 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 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 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 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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