2008
Harris, et al. v. San Diego Gas & Electric Company
Jury awarded $55.6 Million dollars to the families of four marines who died after the Huey UH-1N helicopter they were piloting collided with an unlit and unmarked utility tower on Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Ca.
2007
Doe v. Doe
(Names withheld for confidentiality)
$2.250 Million settlement for a doctor who negligently performed a cervical epidural injection resulting in partial paralysis to the Plaintiff.
2007
Doe v. Caterpillar
(Names withheld for confidentiality)
$2 Million settlement reached for the partial paralysis from the waist down caused by a defectively designed seat on a Caterpillar Scraper
2006
Oddo v. Great American
After Plaintiffs filed suit against the manufacturer of an aircraft that crashed on approach, the insurance company allowed the wreckage to be destroyed. Plaintiffs had to dismiss its claim against the aircraft manufacturer but filed against the insurance company for spoliation. After proving their case would have been successful against the aircraft manufacturer, Plaintiffs settled with the insurance company for $6.7 Million dollars.
2005
Doe v. Coach USA
(Names withheld for confidentiality)
$4.7 Million dollar settlement for the wrongful death of a husband/ father who died after his pick-up truck was pushed off the side of the Coronado Bridge by a bus owned and operated by Coach USA.
2004
Haight v. Mainstreet Pharmacy
Judgment in the amount of $2.2 Million dollars for the wrongful death of a teenager who overdosed on prescription drugs he was able to purchase over the internet as a minor, without a doctors prescription or parental consent. This case led to the drafting of The Ryan Haight Act, which, if passed, will regulate internet pharmacies.
2003
Park v. Cytodyne Technologies, Inc.
$12.5 Million Class Action Judgment awarded against Cytodyne Technologies for false and deceptive advertising of Xenadrine RFA-1, an ephedra-based diet pill. A major victory for California consumers. This case led the way for the United States Congress to ban the sale and distribution of ephedra products in the United States.
2003
Roberson v. United States of America
$800,000 awarded to senior citizen injured in freeway accident caused by government employee.
2002
Doe v. Doe
(names withheld for confidentiality)
High school student dies from meningitis during graduation week trip to Cancun, Mexico. Travel group pays $1 Million to settle wrongful death claim.
2001
DeRungs v. Scripps Clinic
Jury awards $4.7 Million for doctor's fatal error. Father of three children dies as a result of medical malpractice.
2001
Zamora v. City of Los Angeles
City pays $1.25 Million to settle personal injury lawsuit. Police officer runs red light during pursuit causing an accident resulting in major injury to innocent bystander.
2000
Hays v. Mission Valley Center
Jury awards $1.2 Million for injuries sustained as a result of a slip and fall incident in shopping
center.
2000
Lomeli v. Bhracheda
Jury awards $880,000 for wrongful death of tenant burned to death in apartment building fire
2000
Miller v. Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
Insurance company pays $900,000 for wrongful death caused by airplane crash.
1999
Williams v. Bell Helicopter
Power company pays $10 Million to settle wrongful death cases arising from helicopter wire strike accident.
1998
Luckett v. So. Cal. Pediatric Assoc.
$1.325 Million settlement for doctor's failure to diagnose meningitis in infant.
1996
Perez v. Good Samaritan Hospital
Jury awards $800,000 for injury caused by improper employee testing procedure.
1996
Quinn v. John Deere
The Defendant paid $4.6 Million dollars for failing to interlock a seat on a tractor that caused the operator to use his leg, arm and sustain severe brain damage.
Lidle, et al. V. Cirrus Design Corporation
Macaluso & Associates, APC represents the families of Cory Lidle and Tyler Stanger, the Yankee Pitcher and Flight Instructor who died when the Cirrus SR20 they were in collided with an apartment building in Manhattan, New York.
Bibbo, et al. v. Sierra Pacific Power Company
Macaluso & Associates, APC represents the families of several Navy Corpsmen who died when the helicopter they were flying in collided with unmarked utility lines in Nevada outside of NAS Fallon during a night time training mission.
Charlson, et al. v. Carson Helicopter Services, Inc.
Macaluso & Associates, APC represents the families of several fire fighters who died when the Sikorsky S-61 helicopter they were passengers in crashed shortly after take-off in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest while fighting the Iron Complex Fire in 2008.
Stokes, et al v. Kelly Aerospace
Macaluso & Associates, APC represents the family of Daniel Stokes, who, along with two other individuals died, when the Cessna aircraft they were traveling in crashed on the shore of Big Bear Lake just after take off.
Clark, et al. v. San Diego Gas & Electric Company
Downing, et al. v. San Diego Gas & Electric Company
Macaluso & Associates, APC filed the first two class action lawsuits against SDG&E for the Witch Creek and Rice Canyon Fires that engulfed San Diego County in October 2007.
Lasley, et al. v. Pan American Minerals, Inc.
Macaluso & Associates, APC represents the family of a man who fell down an unmarked and open air shaft in an unprotected mine in San Bernardino just outside of Calico Ghost Town.
