Law Offices of Lenard A. Cohen

For more than 25 years, Lenard A. Cohen has had great success in helping injured individuals recover what they deserve. Consequently, The Law Offices of Lenard A. Cohen, P.C. seeks to achieve optimum results for clients. Of course, each result will vary depending on the particular facts and legal circumstances of each case but the goal of achieving the best result possible for every single client is consistent throughout.

As a Pennsylvania Auto Accident Lawyer Lenard Cohen has represented people who are catastrophically injured and disabled for many years as well as those with lesser injuries, but nonetheless traumatic and deserving of legal recovery. The dollar amounts of these cases can range dramatically and in certain circumstances exceed $1 million. Below are some examples of settlements and verdicts obtained by Lenard Cohen.

Automobile Liability Cases

• $2.5 million – Head-on collision resulting in severe crush injury to the left leg.
• $1.2 Million – Combined Verdict to Estate of PA woman killed in automobile accident in West Virginia and to the PA driver of the vehicle who sustained multiple fractures to his leg, arm, and neck requiring surgery. The remaining $500,000 policy limit was awarded to the occupants of the vehicle in front of the plaintiffs’ vehicle who were also injured.
• $875,000 Verdict – Herniated disc with neck surgery following motor vehicle accident.
• $575,000 – Pedestrian struck by car while crossing the street in the crosswalk with her young child. Fractured vertebra in back.
• $515,000 mediated settlement for 25 year old man with significant facial injuries resulting from an intersectional bike vs. auto accident where he ran his bicycle into the side of an SUV.
• $475,000 verdict – Guest at wedding fell down defective steps fracturing wrist and developing reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD).
• $465,000 settlement for 20 year old woman injured while passenger on motorcycle resulting in fractured leg and splenectomy resulting in significant abdominal scarring. Driver of motor cycle died in the collision with a car.
• $450,000 mediated settlement for couple injured in intersectional collision where liability was contested. Fractured leg and facial orbit.
• $400,000 – Tragic Automobile Accident involving a Church van that struck a 2 ½ year old who
  allegedly darted out between parked cars in the middle of the block. The young boy and his family recently granted political asylum from Liberia.
• $300,000 verdict – Victim of rear-end collision who developed RSD.
• $325,000 – Intersectional collision resulting in closed-head injury.
• $160,000 settlement for a man injured from an intersectional bike vs. auto accident when he ran his bicycle into a van at an intersection in NJ and fractured his foot.
• $100,000 policy limits – Police officer struck by car while directing traffic at a funeral procession. Fractured leg.
• $100,000 policy limit settlement for 26 year old man with fractured leg resulting from an intersectional bike vs. auto accident where he was riding his bike across the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania Workers Compensation

• $1.5 Millions for 32 year old who was rendered a paraplegic when he was struck by a stack of boxes weighing 410 lbs from a height of 25 to 30 feet. The settlement included a complete waiver of the insurance company’s right of subrogation from his third party negligence case.
• $450,000 settlement – Multiple fractures and long-term disability and medical treatment.
• $310,000 settlement – Fibromyalgia, RSD with long-term disability and medical treatment.
• $200,000 for 33 year old Union Carpenter who injured his low back when he slipped on debris in a dark stairwell at a construction site.
• $170,000 for a 28 year old Union Carpenter who tore his labrum and underwent surgery.
• $150,000 for a prisoner who was injured while on a work release program for a trash removal company.
• $135,000 settlement – Laid off after returning to light duty job following severe thumb injury resulting in surgery.

Slip & Falls

• $1.5 Million – 84 year old Alzheimer’s patient who fell on front steps of her home when the attendant/driver let go of her arm resulting in head injury and subsequent death.
• $1.4 Million – Roofer fell through unbarricaded skylight falling to his death.
• $750,000 – Roofer who fell 30 feet while nailing down roofing paper and wind blew the paper under his feet and he fell resulting in fracture of foot and ankle.
• $150,000 – 73 year old who fell in aisle of movie theater resulting in fractured/dislocated thumb.
• $120,000 – Slip and fall at Wachovia Center prior to a Wing’s Lacrosse game by an alleged ticket scalper.
• $100,000 – 88 year old who fell in lobby of her apartment building resulting in fractured hip.

Miscellaneous

• $2.3 million – Tainted blood infected with HIV.
• $2 Million for construction worker who fell from building due to negligence of general contractor in failure to provide required fall protection.
• $2 million – Stroke victim as a result of being taken off needed blood thinning medication.
• $700,000 settlement – Fall at work resulting in need to replace an arthritic hip and knee. Fall caused by defective gutter resulting in ice on parking lot.
• $650,000- Product Liability Settlement for 40 year old man who lost his eye as a result of a defective bungee cord.
• $225,000 settlement – Security guard fell into unbarricaded hole. Liability hotly contested. Fractured hip and jaw.
• $100,000 – Settlement for 29 year old prisoner who fractured/dislocated elbow when piece of ceiling collapsed on him.
• $82,500 – Mediated Settlement for 91 year old who fractured her hip after falling on adjacent vacant property while removing debris.