Georgaklis & Mallas PLLC

Our client sustained serious spinal injuries which require surgical intervention. Defendants contended that the accident involved a light impact and could not have caused the injuries to our client. Defendants claimed that the injuries stemmed from pre-existing conditions that occurred as a result of two prior car accidents. We were able to show that the injuries were as a result of this accident and that our client was unable to return to work as a school teacher as a result.

The 67-year-old had a nerve severed in her dominant arm causing her to lose some use of that arm which required a further surgery to transplant a nerve for her to regain use of the function in that arm. The defendants argued that there was no departure from good and accepted practice and that this was simply a risk of the surgery. However, we were able to demonstrate, through the use of experts, that in fact the defendants’ surgeon was unaware that he had transected the nerve causing the damage, and thus, departed from good and accepted medical practice.

As a result there were serious spinal injuries which necessitated surgery.

As a result, he sustained fractures to his arm which necessitated surgical intervention.

Georgaklis & Mallas, PLLC is pleased to announce a settlement in the amount of . This settlement was achieved by Managing Partner and Senior Trial Attorney, Kostantinos “Gus” Mallas, after resting plaintiff’s case on this Wrongful Death case.

Kostantinos Mallas, the partner in charge of the personal injury department and senior trial attorney, proved that the defendant committed malpractice by failing to provide blood thinners to his patient who injured her knee on Christmas day in 2009. The defendants argued that the medical standard did not indicate the need for blood thinners in this instance. Through expert testimony, Mr. Mallas was able to convince the jury that it was a deviation from good an accepted medical practice not to prescribe blood thinners. The decedent ultimately developed a deep vein thrombosis (blood...

00 – For a 38 year old woman who injured her back when she slipped and fell on ice in a Costco parking lot.

00 – For a construction worker that was injured on a job-made ladder, when he fell a short distance and injured his back.

He broke his ankle, necessitating surgical intervention.

As a result, she sustained a herniated disc in her spine.