Recent Results: A Look at How Leitner Warywoda Has Been Fighting for New York Clients and Families

Nursing Home Neglect | Medical Malpractice | Construction Accidents | Wrongful Death | Premises Liability

Behind every settlement at Leitner Warywoda PLLC is a person, a family, and a story. A loved one who walked into a nursing home and never came back the same. A patient who trusted a doctor and paid a terrible price. A worker who showed up to a job site and was sent home in an ambulance. These are the kinds of cases our New York trial attorneys handle every day, and they are the cases reflected in the recent results below.

This post summarizes a selection of recent recoveries our firm has obtained for clients across New York City and Long Island. To respect confidentiality, we do not identify clients or share case-specific facts beyond what is necessary to describe the type of matter. Every case is different, and prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in any future case.

Why These Results Matter

Leitner Warywoda is built around serious injury, nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, construction accidents, and wrongful death litigation. The recoveries highlighted here, taken together, total nearly $8 million in a single recent reporting period and add to a firm-wide track record of more than $250 million recovered for clients.

What ties them together is not just the dollar figures. It is the kind of work the cases required: investigating institutional failures, proving departures from accepted medical standards, holding building owners and contractors accountable under New York Labor Law, and documenting the full human cost of preventable harm.

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Recent Recoveries

The matters below are listed in approximate order of recovery amount. Identifying details have been removed.

$1.9 Million — Medical Malpractice (Non-Fatal)

Our trial team secured a $1.9 million recovery in a medical malpractice case involving allegations of healthcare negligence that caused serious, lasting harm. Cases like these often turn on a careful reconstruction of the medical record, expert review of the standard of care, and a thorough presentation of how a patient’s life has changed because of preventable error.

$850,000 — Medical Malpractice / Wrongful Death

In a separate healthcare case, the firm obtained an $850,000 settlement in a wrongful death matter involving allegations of fatal departures from accepted standards of care. Wrongful death cases in New York require careful proof of both the underlying negligence and the loss to the surviving family, and our team is experienced in developing both.

$800,000 — Construction Accident (Labor Law § 241)

On the construction side, we recovered $800,000 for a worker injured on a New York jobsite under Labor Law claims tied to unsafe site conditions. New York’s Labor Law gives construction workers some of the strongest protections in the country, and these cases often involve general contractors, property owners, subcontractors, and safety personnel.

$790,000 — Nursing Home Wrongful Death

In a nursing home wrongful death case, our firm secured a $790,000 settlement on behalf of the family of a resident who, according to the allegations, suffered serious neglect in a long-term care setting. These matters often involve issues such as understaffing, failure to follow care plans, missed assessments, and unaddressed risks of falls, pressure injuries, infection, or dehydration.

$600,000 — Premises Liability (Slip and Fall)

We recovered $600,000 in a slip-and-fall case against a private property owner. Serious premises liability cases require careful proof of how the dangerous condition was created or allowed to persist and how the owner knew or should have known about it, in addition to proving the full impact of the injuries.

$600,000 — Nursing Home Wrongful Death

A second nursing home wrongful death matter resolved for $600,000. As with our other nursing home cases, the focus was on holding the facility accountable when substandard care contributed to a devastating outcome.

$600,000 — Nursing Home Negligence (Non-Fatal)

Our firm also obtained $600,000 in a nursing home negligence case involving a living resident. This result is an important reminder that significant recoveries are not limited to cases involving death; serious but survivable harm — pressure wounds, fractures, infections, and other injuries — can also support substantial compensation when neglect is proven.

$575,000 — Nursing Home Wrongful Death

In another nursing home death case, our team secured a $575,000 settlement for the family. This recovery continues a pattern of consistent results in litigation involving elder neglect and institutional failures of care.

$550,000 — Combined Nursing Home and Medical Negligence

In a matter involving overlapping nursing home and medical negligence allegations, the firm obtained a combined recovery of $550,000 through multiple settlements during the reporting period. These cases often require coordinating claims against more than one provider when a resident or patient is harmed by failures across both long-term care and acute medical care.

$495,000 — Nursing Home Wrongful Death

Finally, we secured a $495,000 settlement in another nursing home death case. Like the others, this recovery reflects sustained investigation, expert development, and litigation of complex elder care claims.

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What These Results Show About the Firm’s Practice

Read together, these results illustrate a few things about how our firm approaches cases on behalf of New York clients and families:

•      Focus on serious harm. The cases above involve catastrophic injury, fatal medical error, fatal and non-fatal nursing home neglect, jobsite trauma, and severe premises injuries. These are not minor matters.

•      Depth in nursing home litigation. Six of the ten recoveries listed arise from nursing home care, including five wrongful death matters and one involving a surviving resident — reflecting the firm’s sustained focus on elder neglect and institutional accountability.

•      Strength across healthcare and Labor Law. Substantial recoveries in medical malpractice and a Labor Law construction case show that the same trial-ready approach travels across practice areas.

•      Results in both fatal and survivable cases. Wrongful death cases are central to the firm’s work, but serious non-fatal injuries — especially in nursing home settings — also drive meaningful recoveries.

How Leitner Warywoda Builds These Cases

Each of the matters above looks different on paper, but the underlying work tends to follow a familiar pattern.

Early Investigation

From the first call, our team focuses on preserving the evidence that often disappears in injury and death cases: medical records, nursing home charts, staffing data, OSHA filings, surveillance footage, incident reports, photographs of jobsite or property conditions, and witness statements. The earlier this work begins, the stronger the eventual case tends to be.

Working With the Right Experts

Complex injury and death cases rise or fall on expert proof. We routinely work with physicians, nursing experts, life-care planners, vocational specialists, economists, and engineers to explain what went wrong, why it should not have happened, and what it will mean for the client or family in the years ahead.

Trial Readiness, From Day One

Insurance carriers, hospitals, and nursing home chains pay close attention to how a firm prepares its cases. Our cases are built from the start as if they will be tried, with comprehensive damages development, deposition strategy, and motion practice. That posture often shapes the value of a settlement long before a verdict is ever needed.

A Note on Confidentiality

We take seriously our obligations to our clients’ privacy. The summaries above intentionally omit names, dates, locations, defendants, and case-specific facts that could identify the people involved, even when some of that information may appear in public settlement records. The point is not to advertise individual clients; it is to give prospective clients and referral sources a realistic sense of the kinds of cases our firm handles and the kinds of results we have obtained.

As with any law firm’s case list: each case is fact-specific, prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome, and nothing on this page should be read as a promise of any particular result in a future matter.

Talk to a New York Trial Attorney

If you or a family member has been seriously injured — or if you have lost a loved one — to nursing home neglect or abuse, medical malpractice, a construction accident, or another preventable event in New York, our team is available to talk through your situation. Consultations are free and confidential.

Leitner Warywoda PLLC serves clients throughout New York City, Long Island, and the surrounding region from offices in Manhattan and Melville. To contact our trial team, call our office or request a free consultation through our website.

Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. The information on this page is provided for general informational purposes only and is not legal advice. Reading this material or contacting our firm does not create an attorney-client relationship.