Rhode Island Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
3 independently-sourced personal injury results from Rhode Island firms, largest first. Filter by practice area or result type. Each links to the full story, the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
3 results, largest first
Simcha Berman, left quadriplegic after falling 29 feet from Newport's Cliff Walk in August 2000, settled with the City of Newport for $2 million at policy limits before a jury found the State of Rhode Island not liable.
A three-judge First Circuit panel ruled that two Social Security Administration practices governing attorney fee payments were arbitrary and unenforceable, ordering the agency to revise procedures that had denied Marasco & Nesselbush roughly $70,000 in earned fees.
After more than three decades of denials, the First Circuit vacated the judgment against the claimant and, on remand, an SSA administrative law judge awarded retroactive Social Security disability benefits to the estate of a Rhode Island veteran whose untreated schizophrenia had gone uncompensated since 1975.