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Representative Cases

In the nearly 40 years combined of representing plaintiffs, the attorneys at Youman & Caputo have secured or helped secure more than 100 seven or eight-figure settlements or verdicts. We investigate our cases thoroughly, litigate them aggressively, and do not hesitate to try any case where necessary to try to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients.

Some of the verdicts and settlements that we have won include:

False Claims Act Settlement

$35 million

Caputo was lead counsel for a whistleblower in a lawsuit that settled for $35 million with a healthcare system and two Tucson hospitals over alleged Medicare fraud. The settlement remains the largest of its kind in Arizona history. The whistleblower in the case, a former employee of the non-profit healthcare system, received a reward of nearly $6 million.

Delaware County Jury Verdict

$21.8 million

Caputo was lead trial counsel for a man who lost his sight because of prolonged back surgery. Caputo’s verdict is one of the largest verdicts in Delaware County history and it ranked among the top 100 verdicts in any type of case in the United States in 2015.

Brain Injury Settlement

$19.6 million

False Claims Act Settlement

$10.19 million

Caputo was lead counsel for a whistleblower in a lawsuit that settled against a New York company, Sorkin’s Rx, Ltd., a/k/a CareMed Pharmaceutical Services, for allegedly engaging in fraudulent sales involving expensive prescription drugs to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. That matter settled for $10.19 million, with the whistleblower’s share set at $1.85 million.

Brain Injury Settlement

$9 million

Spinal Cord Injury Settlement

$8 million

Birth Injury Settlement

$7.5 million

Injured Construction Worker

$7.3 million

Spinal Cord Injury Settlement

$7 million

False Claims Act Settlement

$6.2 million

Caputo was lead counsel for a whistleblower in a New York tax fraud lawsuit against Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. and Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co that resulted in a $6.2 million settlement. The whistleblower received a reward of more than $1.1 million.

Birth Injury Settlement

$6 million

Spinal Cord Injury Settlement

$6 million

False Claims Act Settlement

$5.85 million

Caputo was lead counsel for a whistleblower in a case in which a community health system agreed to pay the federal government $5.85 million to settle claims that it overbilled Medicare using inflated employee work hours. The whistleblower reward was $1.17 million.

Product Liability/medical Malpractice Settlement

$5.6 million

Montgomery County Jury Verdict

$5.1 million

In 2014, Youman won a $5.1 million jury verdict in Montgomery County for a woman who suffered severe injuries after a medication error caused her to be injected with a concentrated decongestant instead of a local anesthetic before routine sinus surgery.

Medical Malpractice Settlement

$5 million

Delay Of Diagnosis Of Cancer Settlement

$4.95 million

Product Liability/medical Malpractice Settlement

$3.7 million

Delay In Diagnosis Of Brain Tumor Settlement

$3.5 million

Delayed Diagnosis Of Infection Settlement

$3.5 million

Premises Liability Settlement

$3 million

Construction Accident Jury Verdict

$3 million

Caputo was lead trial counsel for an ironworker who was injured when he fell in a dark staircase at a construction site.

False Claims Act Settlement

$2.7 million

Caputo represented the whistleblower in a California case in which an aerospace parts company agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle claims that it falsely certified that it had performed required inspections on parts used in military aircraft, spacecraft and missiles used by the Depart of Defense.

Workplace Injury Settlement

$2.3 million

Construction Accident Jury Verdict

$2 million

In November 2004, Youman won a $2 million jury verdict for a construction worker who suffered a severe neck injury in a jobsite mishap. George LePera, of Conshohocken, was hurt when wet concrete was poured onto him from one floor above the area in which he was working.

Medical Malpractice Settlement

$1.87 million

In May 2011, Youman won a $1.87 million verdict for the estate of a woman, Koulnara Chrol, who died after an emergency room doctor failed to diagnose her symptoms as carbon monoxide poisoning. Days after her discharge from the ER she was found unconscious in her Cheltenham home, where two other people were found dead.

Delayed Diagnosis Of Heart Attack Settlement

$1.75 million

Philadelphia Motor Vehicle Accident Settlement

$1.3 million

Motor Vehicle Accident Settlement

$1.2 million

In 2006, Youman won a $1.2 million verdict in Chester County for a man injured when a truck veered off a roadway and struck tree branches that fell on his head, causing several fractures and resulting in headaches and cognitive deficits.

Medical Malpractice Verdict In Chester County

$927,000

One month after his verdict in the Chrol case (above), Youman won a $927,000 verdict in Chester County for an Exton woman whose hand was damaged in a medical procedure at Paoli Hospital. The injury curtailed her career plan to perform micro-surgery in researching a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.