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$90,000,000 - Tobacco Litigation Verdict
In April 2010, Keith Mitnik obtained a $90 million verdict for damages in a lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
$40,000,000 - Tobacco Litigation Verdict
Attorney Keith Mitnik recovers a $40 million tobacco litigation verdict for the husband and daughter of a woman who died after smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for 36 years.
$18,800,000 - Motorcycle Crash Verdict
In January 2011, Keith Mitnik obtained an $18.8 million verdict on behalf of a motorcyclist who was rendered a paraplegic when a car pulled out in front of him.
$12,200,000 - Auto Crash Verdict
In February 2009, Keith Mitnik obtained a $12.2 million verdict for a 15-year-old girl who was involved in a rear end car accident and suffered paralysis from the waist down.
$1,350,000 - Motorcycle Crash Verdict
In May 2010, Keith Mitnik obtained a $1.35 million verdict on behalf of an unhelmeted motorcyclist who suffered a closed head injury after colliding with the rear of a SUV that changed lanes in front of him.
Chris Cobbs - Orlando Sentinel - August 18, 2005 Back to News
A St. Petersburg woman who said doctors' negligence caused permanent damage to her leg during an operation to correct an old injury was awarded $1.25 million Thursday by an Orange County jury in a medical-malpractice lawsuit.
Blanca Scott, 40, a former Orlando resident, received the award in a lawsuit against two surgeons: Dr. Joseph Billings of Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic and an Orlando Magic doctor; and Dr. Amber Chatwin, formerly of Jewett and now practicing in California.
"The patient had a known and accepted complication from a difficult surgery for which she was warned ahead of time about complications that, unfortunately, did result," said Ralph Martinez, attorney for Billings and Chatwin, in announcing he would file an appeal for a new trial.
While taking a year to consider whether to have the operation, which took place five years ago, Scott was told several times by the doctors of possible complications, Martinez said.
The operation was necessitated by scar tissue that had formed in a knee after a car injury that caused a compound fracture when Scott was a teen, Martinez said. The issue in the case was not Billings' skill but the decision to have Chatwin perform a key part of the operation, said Keith Mitnik, a lawyer with the firm Morgan and Morgan, which filed suit on Scott's behalf.
"The jury determined there was negligence on the part of the doctors in allowing a saw to cut through blood vessels and a nerve," Mitnik said. "Dr. Billings is a fine, exceptional surgeon. The problem was not his skill but the decision to have a less- experienced doctor whom he was training to play a significant role in the operation."