$10 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Rodney S. Dillman and Julie C. Mayer, Virginia Beach
Date: June 2022
Case Summary: Plaintiff suffered from vasovagal syncope, lost consciousness, and struck the back of her head on the concrete during a mammogram, which allegedly resulted in permanent brain injury.
Court: Newport News Circuit Court
$5 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Michael E. Olszewski and Tracie M. Dorfman, Fairfax
Date: April 2022
Case Summary: Plaintiff alleged that the emergency medicine physician failed to timely diagnose stroke leading to permanent homonymous hemianopsia.
Court: Augusta County Circuit Court
$5 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Rodney S. Dillman and Julie C. Mayer, Virginia Beach
Date: June 2022
Case Summary: Plaintiff alleged that defendant’s conduct was willful, wanton and/or reckless enough to justify punitive damages following the death of his patient in part due to narcotics prescribed by the defendant.
Court: Prince William Circuit Court
$5 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Michael E. Olszewski and Kambria T. Lannetti; Fairfax
Date: August 2022
Case Summary: Nerve injury due to the placement of a suture on the posterior interosseous nerve during surgery to repair severe right elbow dislocation and open right wrist fracture in a 58-year-old woman who fell off of a ladder in her home while painting.
Court: Fairfax County
$5 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Michael E. Olszewski and D. Michael Faust, Fairfax
Date: November 2022
Case Summary: Brain injury case against emergency medicine physician involving allegations of oxygen deprivation which led to a claimed permanent and severe anoxic brain injury.
Court: City of Staunton
$5 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Michael E. Olszewski, Coreen A. Silverman, and Kambria T. Lannetti, Fairfax and Richmond
Date: December 2022
Case Summary: Wrongful death of 26-week gestation neonate after contracting staphylococcus aureus in the NICU. Treatment of the neonate was complicated by the parents’ refusal to consent to a blood transfusion because of their Jehovah’s Witness faith.
Court: Fairfax County
$4 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Coreen A. Silverman and Sandra M. Douglas, Richmond
Date: January 2022
Case Summary: Plaintiff alleges chiropractor performed aggressive adjustment causing severe disc herniation and central spinal cord compression that required emergency surgery to prevent paralysis.
Court: Norfolk Circuit Court
$3.45 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Michael E. Olszewski and Tracie M. Dorfman, Fairfax
Date: July 2022
Case Summary: Plaintiff alleged that his internist failed to properly monitor his PSA leading to delayed diagnosis of prostate cancer with a terminal prognosis.
Court: Loudoun County Circuit Court
$3 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Michael E. Olszewski and Kambria T. Lannetti, Fairfax
Date: September 2022
Case Summary: Wrongful death of a 76-year-old woman from alleged blood loss anemia during a hospital stay after falling in her home and sustaining a right humerus fracture and various facial lacerations.
Court: Fairfax County
$2.3 Million
Attorneys for Defendant: Michael E. Olszewski and D. Michael Faust, Fairfax
Date: July 2022
Case Summary: Wrongful death claim against attending physician at nursing home involving allegations of negligence which resulted in severe dehydration causing renal failure and death.
Court: City of Alexandria
