First Admitted: 1988, New Jersey

Bar/Professional Activity:

Brain Injury Association of New York State, Board of Directors
New York State Trial Lawyer’s Association, Board of Directors
U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1995
Board of Directors of the Medical Malpractice Task Force of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1995
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1995
New York, 1989
New Jersey, 1998

Verdicts/Settlements (Case Results):

$43,000,000.00 Jury Verdict Award for a brain injury survivor as compensation for her pain and suffering from medical malpractice consisting of the failure to timely diagnose and treat a brain anuerysm that subsequently ruptured.
$11,965,800 Jury Verdict Award for a construction worker who sustained a brain injury from a fall off the roof due to the failure to provide him with a safety harness as required by the labor laws of the state of New York.
$9,900,000 Settlement for a 48 year old attorney who was caused to sustain a brain injury from medical malpractice involving the misapplication of a medical device during a surgical procedure.
$9,480,000 Settlement for a 12 year old child who was caused to sustain a brain injury from medical malpractice involving the accidential non-lethal electrocution during a medical procedure.
$6,000,000 Jury Verdict Award to a 78 year old man who sustained a brain injury from medical malpractice where the neurosurgeon embedded a drain in the man's brain during the evacuation of a subdural hematoma.
$6,000,000 Jury Verdict Award to a construction worker who sustained a brain injury from a fall off a ladder placed on a bakers scaffold.

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Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

Author of the Tug Wyler Mystery Series, a collection of emotionally charged and thought provoking medical-legal thrillers.
Suzy’s Case, published by Scribner, A Division of Simon & Schuster.
Cookie’s Case
Nelly's Case
Elton's Case
Jenna's Case
Second Impact - The Ray Ciancaglini Story

Andrew W. Siegel