Benedict Morelli│Mark Perez v. Live Nation Worldwide, Inc.│$101 Million Verdict
This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Benedict Morelli of ( https://www.morellilaw.com/ )
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Case Details:
Morelli Law Firm founder Benedict Morelli shares how he secured justice for 30-year-old Mark Perez, a talented graphic designer and DJ who sustained a traumatic brain injury when a forklift operated by a Live Nation employee crashed into his booth at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York. Despite the defense’s attempts to undermine the validity and severity of Mark’s physical limitations and continuing, pain and suffering, a New York County jury returned a verdict of $101,798,968 in damages after four weeks of trial.
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Guest Bio:
Benedict Morelli
Benedict Morelli began his career in 1973 as a law clerk in a personal injury law firm, becoming eligible for the bar exam in 1977. After being admitted to the New York State Bar he became a partner and then senior partner of that firm. Mr. Morelli has a degree from City College, NY 1971 and studied law at New York Law School. He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts, Southern, Eastern, Western, and Northern districts of New York.
Mr. Morelli has been a partner at his law firm since 1981 and a senior partner since 1990. In June 1998, Mr. Morelli dissolved his firm and started Benedict P. Morelli & Associates, which later became Morelli Law Firm.
Mr. Morelli represents clients in Employment Discrimination cases (including racial discrimination, age discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, and gender bias), false arrests, civil rights, complex product liability (including drug product liability – DES, Vioxx, Bextra, Ortho-Evra, and Avandia), auto accidents, premises, labor law, and many other types of cases. In each of these areas, Mr. Morelli has gotten multi-million dollar verdicts. He represents individual plaintiffs against many major corporations including many large investment banks.
For over thirty-five years of trying cases, Mr. Morelli has received numerous multi-million dollar verdicts. In 1995, his $40 million dollar verdict was featured in the National Law Journal as one of the "Top Ten Verdicts" in the United States.
He has tried every kind of civil case – from a person who tripped and fell over a raised door saddle and broke his hip ($2.6 million – the largest verdict in the country for that injury) to complex medical malpractice cases (the largest verdict in the country for blindness in one eye). He has attained the largest verdict for a loss of three fingers (medical malpractice) and the largest verdict for a crush injury to the arm.
In 2010, Mr. Morelli was lead counsel in a polio vaccine case that had been filed thirty years earlier and received a $22.5 million verdict (the largest verdict in Supreme Court in Staten Island, NY history.) It was also the largest vaccine verdict in U.S. history.
In 2011, Mr. Morelli was lead counsel in a sexual harassment trial in Federal Court in the Southern District of Illinois and received a $95 million verdict (the largest single-plaintiff sexual harassment verdict in history.)
Approximately half of the cases the firm handles are for other lawyers or law firms who choose Mr. Morelli and his staff as their trial counsel because of their track record for delivering multi-million dollar verdicts. Over the years Mr. Morelli has always been considered a lawyer's lawyer. He not only has numerous law firms referring clients to him but also has judges recommending clients to him. From the time he was admitted to the Bar through the present, Mr. Morelli has been first and foremost a trial lawyer.
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