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Andrew Levine and Howard Raphaelson
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Since its founding in 1992, Raphaelson & Levine has prided itself on serving as a “Voice for the Injured.” The firm’s trial lawyers, paralegals, investigators, and support staff all work tirelessly to help victims secure the verdicts and settlements they deserve; and over the past decade, they have obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in results for their clients.
Indeed, ensuring clients are fully compensated for their injuries is a bedrock principle at the firm, which aggressively pursues accountability when negligent behavior causes serious physical and economic harm. The firm has secured significant awards and settlements from construction companies, general contractors, product manufacturers, building owners, homeowners, business owners, automobile owners, trucking companies, municipalities, and medical professionals.
Among its recent results, Raphaelson & Levine obtained a $1.85 million recovery for a carpenter who fell 18 feet from an unsecured extension ladder while working at a commercial building site. The firm also achieved a $1.75 million recovery for the driver of a motor vehicle who sustained injuries to his spine when his car was struck by another vehicle, a $1.5 million settlement for a woman in her 50s with a history of prior injuries who was reinjured in an auto accident, and a $1.3 million recovery for a woman injured in a serious pedestrian accident. Moreover, in 2014 the firm obtained two of New York’s top “motor vehicle: no-fault case” verdicts, as reported by VerdictSearch, with one being a $1.25 million award in a case where a car crash caused spine and shoulder injuries.
Partners Andrew Levine and Howard Raphaelson credit these million- and multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements to the substantial resources the firm puts toward identifying the underlying issues of a case. In addition to experienced attorneys, the firm utilizes a number of experts to help clients get the best recovery possible. Attorneys at the firm also make a point of familiarizing themselves with their clients’ day-to-day lives in order to anticipate all of their clients’ needs and expectations.
Given its results, Raphaelson & Levine has been recognized annually in New York’s Top Verdicts and Settlements and Personal Injury Litigators publication. Levine and Raphaelson are also well known as leaders in the personal injury community, as both serve on the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association—the preeminent association for personal injury litigators in the state—and have been selected to Super Lawyers. In addition, the Trial Lawyers Board of Regents recently honored the firm with its 2014 Litigator Award.
In the spirit of helping others, the firm is involved in many charities, most notably as the chief sponsor of the Long Island 2 Day Breast Cancer Walk, which raises awareness and money for cancer research in the New York area. For more information about the firm and its work in the community, please visit its website, www.rllawyers.com, or join its social media network on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Plus. You can also sign up on its website for the monthly email distribution of its personal injury magazine, “The Voice of The Injured.”
RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
$40 Million Structured Settlement
Building Collapses on Child
$8.5 Million Award
Psychiatric Patient Forcefully Knocked to Ground
$5 Million Jury Award
Young Father Killed in a Train Accident
$3.25 Million Mediated Settlement
Child Paralyzed from Automobile Seating Design Defect
$2.255 Million Mediated Settlement
Mason Fell 45 Feet from Scaffold
$1.95 Million Mediated Settlement
Driver Struck by Delivery Truck
$1.75 Million Mediated Settlement
Driver Struck by MTA Bus
$1.65 Million Mediated Settlement
Business Executive Tripped at Workplace
$1.1 Million Jury Award
Union Paperhanger Falls at Work Site