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Mark Bower is a Member of the Million Dollar Advocates' Forum, and has won more than two dozen million dollar verdicts or settlements, including:
a $24,000,000 structured settlement for a brain-injured baby whose mother's uterus ruptured due to the use of the drug Cytotec (June, 2006) ("Srulowitz");
a $22,000,000 structured settlement for a woman who lost most of her upper digestive tract from an undiagnosed strangulated paraesophageal hernia in a northern Westchester Co. hospital (May 2007) ("Shochat");
a $12,000,000 structured settlement for a brain-injured baby boy born in Orange Co., NY, whose umbilical cord prolapsed as a result of an unwanted and improprer rupture of the amniotic membranes, October 2006 ("Peraza");
a $9,000,000 structured settlement for a 10 year-old girl in Ulster Co. who suffered from Erb's Palsy as a result of birth trauma in an upstate hospital ("Roser v. Benedictine"), Fall 2005;
a $28,714,469 structured settlement for a badly scalded baby ("Klein v. Kennedy Enterprises");
a $9,200,000 structured settlement for a mother and baby where the mother suffered endocarditis during pregnancy ("Campagna v. Weiss");
a $16,000,000 structured settlement for a child who lost several fingers due to a misplaced intravenous line ("Spellman v. N.Y.C. Health & Hospitals Corp.");
a $4,500,000 verdict for a man struck by a collapsing ceiling ("O'Callaghan");
a $1,000,000 cash settlement for an 82 year-old N.Y. City psychologist, whose leg was amputed as a resulted of an undiagnosed malignant melanoma on his heel ("Sacks"). The case settled after Mark's stirring summation to the jury (Spring 2006).
In the Spring of 2000, Mark Bower and Joseph Lichtenstein recovered a $5,250,000 structured settlement for a mildly brain-injured baby in an obstetrical malpractice case, "D'Amato v. Winthrop University Hospital," in Nassau County, NY.
In 2002, Mark R. Bower recovered $1,350,000, including the waiver of a $200,000 lien, for the loss of one leg for a taxi driver whose fracture was mistreated by a N.Y.C. hospital.
In the Winter of 2000, Mark R. Bower and Mr. Lichtenstein recovered $800,000.00 for a baby born with a terrible birth defect, a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, in "Fraylich v. Maimonides Hospital" in the Supreme Court, N.Y. County.
In October, 2000 Mark Bower settled a case involving a hand injury while under anesthesia for a patient undergoing cardiac bypass surgery, for $225,000. ("Carey v. St. Luke's Hospital", N.Y. County).
In April 2001, Mark Bower settled an Erb's Palsy case against the NYC Health & Hospitals Corp. for $600,000.00 ("Mensah v. NYCHHC"). In the Fall of 2001, he settled another Erb's Palsy case for $650,000.00, which included an extraordinary $250,000.00 contribution from a pre-natal care doctor for mismanaging the mother&039;s diabetes during the pregnancy. In 1999-2001, Mark Bower collected almost $2,000,000.00 for children born with Erb's Palsy, a birth injury almost always due to obstetrical malpractice.
In 1996, Mark Bower receive a $7,000,000 structured settlement against a midwife, for a brain-damaged baby, in "Gilbert v. Grayson", in the Supreme Court, N.Y. County, and a $2,300,000 verdict for the death of a trackman from an undiagnosed heart attack ("Pidgeon v. P.A.").