More than $12 million verdict for steel workers severely burned by molten metal after a furnace explosion.
Case Results
Selected Case Results
These selected recoveries reflect prior matters handled by Friday & Cox LLC. They are presented for context, not as a promise about any future outcome.
Experience by Matter Type
Recoveries across serious injury and work-related matters.
Friday & Cox has obtained recoveries in work and industrial injury, catastrophic injury, defective product, medical negligence, vehicle, pedestrian, and premises matters.
Selected Recoveries
Work and Industrial Injuries
The firm's work and industrial recoveries include matters involving severe burns, construction falls, electrical exposure, defective machinery, and workers' compensation.
$4.25 million recovery for an oil and gas worker with severe burns.
$4 million recovery for a construction worker injured in a fall.
$1.95 million recovery for a worker exposed to an overhead power line.
$1.75 million recovery for a worker with crush injuries from a defective machine.
$145,000 workers' compensation recovery for a man who developed a pulmonary embolism after leg surgery caused by a trip and fall at work.
Selected Recoveries
Catastrophic and Permanent Injuries
These matters involved permanent and life-changing harm, including amputation, paralysis, childhood injury, and injury to a group home resident with special needs.
$11 million recovery for an injured worker with an arm amputation.
$5 million recovery for a woman paralyzed from an untreated spinal cord infection.
$1.25 million recovery in a catastrophic injury matter.
$725,000 recovery for a 9-year-old child with partial amputations of two fingers.
$680,000 award for a group home resident with special needs.
Selected Recoveries
Defective Products and Equipment
The firm's product and equipment recoveries include matters involving defective airbags, a failed trailer-hitch weld, a gas-line explosion, defective fireworks, and a dangerous amusement ride.
$7.5 million recovery for car passengers blinded by defective airbags.
$800,000 recovery for a worker crushed by a defective weld on a trailer hitch.
Confidential recovery for a 5-year-old child injured in an outside gas line explosion.
Confidential recovery for a volunteer firefighter blinded by defective fireworks.
Confidential recovery for a child with severe disfigurement from a dangerous amusement ride.
Selected Recoveries
Medical Negligence and Misdiagnosis
The firm's medical recoveries include birth injury, spinal-injury misdiagnosis, nursing home, medical malpractice, and other misdiagnosis matters.
$1.3 million recovery for a birth injury.
$1.1 million recovery for misdiagnosis of a spinal injury.
$1 million recovery in a nursing home case.
$900,000 recovery in a medical malpractice matter.
$800,000 recovery in a misdiagnosis matter.
$750,000 recovery in a misdiagnosis matter.
Selected Recoveries
Vehicle, Truck, and Pedestrian Injuries
The firm's roadway recoveries include ATV, motor vehicle, trucking, traffic-control, pedestrian, and train incidents.
$3 million recovery for an ATV crash victim.
$2.6 million recovery for a vehicle crash victim with complex gastrointestinal and orthopedic injuries.
$750,000 recovery for a police officer injured while directing traffic.
$637,500 verdict for a motorist injured by a negligent truck driver and trucking company.
$375,000 recovery for a man injured in a motor vehicle accident on I-80 in Western Pennsylvania.
$200,000 recovery for a woman hit by a car while walking to work in a parking lot.
Confidential recovery for a pedestrian struck by a train.
Selected Recoveries
Premises and Fall Injuries
The firm's premises recoveries include falls involving broken concrete, a defective handrail, and crumbled concrete.
$975,000 recovery for a man who tripped and fell on broken concrete in downtown Pittsburgh, injuring both legs.
$385,000 recovery for a fall victim injured by a defective handrail.
$165,000 recovery for an elderly woman injured when she fell on crumbled concrete.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different.
The Work Behind a Result
Substantial cases demand careful preparation.
Case value depends on the injury, the evidence, the applicable law, the parties involved, and many other circumstances. A serious case deserves an individual assessment rather than a comparison to someone else's result.
Friday & Cox LLC brings more than 190 years of combined practice experience to potential matters, with attention to the record, the immediate needs of the client, and the legal questions that may affect the path forward.
Why Outcomes Differ
No result determines the value of another case.
The same injury category can produce different outcomes depending on liability, available insurance, medical proof, future care, wage loss, venue, witnesses, and how clearly the record explains the harm.
Liability proof
Results depend on who was responsible, what evidence exists, and whether fault is disputed.
Medical proof
Hospital records, imaging, surgery, therapy, restrictions, and future-care opinions can all affect the evaluation.
Future impact
Lost earning capacity, home support, equipment, pain, permanent limitations, and family impact can matter.
Insurance and defendants
Available coverage, responsible parties, policy limits, and litigation posture can shape the path forward.
Range of Experience
Serious injuries can arise in many different ways.
Friday & Cox has handled work injuries, catastrophic injuries, medical negligence, defective products, premises injuries, vehicle crashes, industrial accidents, child injuries, and workers' compensation matters.
Events and causes
- Work accidents and workers' compensation
- Industrial, construction, oil and gas, and electrical incidents
- Truck, car, motorcycle, pedestrian, and bus crashes
- Product liability, premises liability, and medical malpractice
Injuries and consequences
- Brain injury, spinal cord injury, paralysis, and nerve damage
- Amputation, crush injury, burn injury, scarring, and disfigurement
- Severe fracture, internal organ injury, vision loss, and hearing loss
- Birth injury, child injury, and wrongful death
A Case Is Individual
Discuss the facts of your situation.
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