Miscellaneous Lawsuit Verdicts & Settlements
 

Miscellaneous Case Verdicts

• Griffin v. City of Opa Locka - $2 million verdict, plus court awarded attorneys' fees, for a victim of sexual harassment by the City Manager. This is one of the highest verdicts of its kind.

• J.W., a minor v. School in South Florida - $1.5 million jury verdict for a minor female student who was a minor at a South Florida school for injuries she sustained when she was sexually attacked by classmates.

  On May 17, 2005 a Dade County jury awarded a minor female student at Heritage Schools of Florida $1,500,000.00 for injuries she sustained when she was attacked by classmates.

  The teacher responsible for the supervision of the minor female and the classmates negligently abandoned the classroom prior to the incident.

  On or about November 6, 2002, during class time, the teacher employed by defendant school left the classroom to which the minor child was assigned and remained outside for several minutes. In the absence of the teacher, the minor students were left unsupervised for an unspecified period of time. During this time several students attacked the minor plaintiff forcibly restraining her movement and touching her body, including on or about her private parts, against her will and in an offensive manner.

  (J.W. a minor vs. Heritage Schools of Florida, Inc., Miami-Dade County Florida, Circuit Court, 11th Judicial Circuit, Case No. 03-12683 CA 06)

Miscellaneous Lawsuit Settlements

• Class v. American Family Publishers (AFP) - FREIDIN · DOBRINSKY was one of the firms representing consumers in this nationwide class action for unfair consumer trade practices which resulted in a negotiated settlement in which AFP paid $32 million settlement to compensate individuals who had been taken advantage of by the deceptive sweepstakes mailings.

• 3 Victims v. 2 Companies - $3.1 million settlement for a small plane crash in Bolivia.

• Estate of I.C. v. Nursing Home - $2.5 million settlement for a claim for large bedsores.

• F.L. v. Nursing Home - $930,000 settlement for the family of a victim of nursing home neglect.

• Estate of F.O. v. Airline Company & General Motors Corp - $827,000.00 settlement for the death of co-pilot resulting from airplane crash on take-off.

• O.I. v. Building Solutions Company - The Fourth District Court of Appeal entered its order approving a $329,838.46 arbitration award on an age discrimination case. The award compensates O.I. for being improperly discharged from his employment due to his age, and further awarded him attorneys fees for succeeding in this action.

• M.B. v. American Airlines - confidential settlement for the parents of a young woman killed in an airline crash in South America.

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