With more than 30 years of experience representing plaintiffs who have sustained serious personal injuries or financial losses, the trial lawyers of BIREN/KATZMAN have successfully handled hundreds of cases, collecting more than $150 million for our clients. The following case is just one example:

VIGEANT V. LINENS N' THINGS

Jury Awards Woman $508,000 For Brain Damage Caused By Small Package Causing Preexisting Aneurysm To Bleed

Huguette Vigeant was a woman who had always had high energy and been able to do many different tasks at once. This changed after a package fell from a shelf at defendant's store and struck her on the head. At first the doctors thought that it was a mild concussion that would clear up. Ultimately, however, it was determined that Ms.Vigeant had a preexisting congenital aneurysm and that when the package struck her head, it caused the aneurysm to leak blood.

The defendant denied that it did anything wrong and contended that all of Ms. Vigeant's problems were caused by the aneurysm itself, and had nothing to do with the accident.

BIREN/KATZMAN put on evidence from the neurosurgeon who operated on the aneurysm and a neurologist that established that Ms. Vigeant should have recovered fine from the brain surgery and her diminished capabilities were the result of damage caused by the bleeding; had the accident not happened she would have been fine once she recovered from the surgery. The Santa Barbara jury concluded that the store had negligently stacked the package and that the accident was the cause of most of Ms. Vigeant's current problems.

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