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Practice
Areas:
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Truck Accidents
Motorcycle
Accidents
Premises
Liability
Products
Liability
Employment
Law
Discrimination
Workplace
Harassment
Medical
Malpractice
Birth Injuries
VA Birth
Injury Fund Claims
Nursing
Home Negligence
EMPLOYMENT MATTERS:
We assist doctors, professors, sales representatives,
and other high-level employees to negotiate reasonable compensation,
severance, non-competition agreements, and other contracts.
We represent executives and other high-level employees in
wage payment litigation to recover unlawfully withheld severance
pay, bonuses and commissions.
We litigate cases on behalf of employees who have experienced
discrimination and harassment, including cases on behalf of
women executives in Equal Pay Act and failure to promote cases.
We explain employees’ rights in the workplace, review
proposed contracts that employees have been asked to sign,
and help evaluate whether employers have violated the law.
We assist doctors, dentists, orthodontists, nurses, and
any other licensees in matters before the various boards within
the Virginia Department of Health Professions for matters
involving potential disciplinary action and investigations.
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Bertini
& Hammer was established as a firm of litigators dedicated
to serving clients with a variety of legal needs. We strive
to provide representation in a courteous and prompt manner and
rely on our reputation as attorneys with integrity and experienced
courtroom skills. We understand that our clients are sometimes
new to the legal process, and we know our role includes guiding
each client to an understanding of the process. Each attorney
at Bertini & Hammer is actively involved in various organizations
of lawyers and judges. We believe these contacts allow us to
remain informed of the latest developments in the law. Our experienced
staff is committed to client service and understands that each
case and each client is important to the firm. Each of our attorneys
has obtained successful results for our clients throughout all
of Virginia, particularly in the Tidewater and Hampton Roads
areas.
We have represented clients in State and Federal Courts in Norfolk,
Virginia Beach, Hampton, Newport News, Suffolk, Portsmouth,
Chesapeake, Williamsburg, Richmond, Loudoun County, Fairfax,
Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and the Eastern
Shore.
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CASE RESULTS
DEPEND ON A VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH CASE; INDIVIDUAL
CASE RESULTS DO NOT GUARANTEE OR PREDICT A SIMILAR RESULT IN ANY
FUTURE CASE UNDERTAKEN BY BERTINI & HAMMER, PC OR ITS ATTORNEYS.
FIRM VERDICTS:
Verdict for failure to properly manage anesthesia: $5,000,000
Failure to Diagnose: $4,000,000
Spinal Cord Injury: $1,850,000
Shoulder
Dystocia: $1,555,000
Cerebral Palsy Brain Injury at Birth: $939,000
Retained Surgical Sponge: $350,000
(In addition to their verdicts, B&H has also obtained
numerous confidential settlements on behalf of their injured clients.)
SETTLEMENTS:
Traumatic brain injury to motorcycle passenger ejected as a result of faulty roadwork: $3,817,500
Failure to timely deliver an infant resulting in severe CP - $3,100,000
Infant suffers brain injury from placental abruption: $2,300,000
Wrongful death from failing to treat respiratory distress in an infant: $1,700,000
Failure to diagnose and treat a brain infection resulting in death - $1,700,000
Failure to diagnose and treat HELLP syndrome resulting in fetal death - $950,000
Broken hip and shoulder from fall off a rock climbing wall: $925,000
Patient dies after physician failed to respond to deadly test results: $917,500
Failure to diagnose a heart attack after an abnormal EKG resulting in death - $900,000
Misdiagnosis of post-partum angiopathy resulting in blindness: $850,000
Failure to timely diagnose and treat a stroke resulting in permanent neurologic deficits: $837,500
Brain injury of infant resulting from misdiagnosis of infection: $750,000
Negligent sedation of a patient resulting in death - $750,000
Wrongful death from untimely discharge of mentally unstable patient: $650,000
Error in eye surgery resulted in double vision: $450,000
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