Dani Alexis Ryskamp, J.D.

A Baltimore jury awarded $229 million to a child born with permanent brain damage and her mother, in what the plaintiff’s attorneys say is the largest medical malpractice verdict ever recorded in the United States. Maryland’s medical malpractice damages caps…

The surviving spouse of Army Staff Sgt. Alfred “Fred” Brazel was recently awarded a multimillion-dollar settlement in a medical malpractice claim against the Department of Defense. The award is the largest to date under a 2019 law that allowed service…

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The recent cases are part of a long chain of lawsuits related to PFAS contamination. Currently, about 2500 cases are involved in MDL-2873, In re: Aqueous Film Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation. Recent Court Rulings in PFAS-Related Multidistrict Litigation Codefendants…

A Missouri woman recently filed suit against the cosmetics company, L’Oréal. The plaintiff claims that there’s a link between the company’s hair-straightening products and her uterine cancer. The allegations in the complaint suggest that this case may be the first…

The plaintiffs, a gas leak investigator for NW Natural and a local stylist, suffered physical and mental injuries after an excavator hit a buried natural gas pipeline in Portland’s Northwest District. The Background of the Pipeline Explosion Case Plaintiff Eric…

Law firm Duffy & Duffy, PLLC represented the plaintiff and his family in a negligence case against Jacobi Medical Center in Bronx, New York. “This $80 million verdict is one of the largest in history,” said Michael E. Duffy, managing…

Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter April Ehrlich (aka April Fonseca) recently filed suit against the City of Medford, claiming that police violated her rights by arresting her as she attempted to provide journalistic coverage for Jefferson Public Radio. The case raises…

 A Catastrophic Crash The plaintiff was a 52-year-old Illinois resident who worked as a truck driver. In August 2018, the plaintiff was hauling a load of freight via semi-truck across Wyoming to a recipient in Idaho. As the plaintiff traveled…

A man left paralyzed after a work accident recently received $15.5 million in damages from a Florida jury. The jury determined that the treating neurosurgeon failed to diagnose and treat the man’s injuries properly. This failure to treat the patient’s…