Case:
Ninfa Diaz v. Loving Tender Pediatrics
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Result:
Defense Verdict
Summary:
Daniel Santaniello, Managing Partner and Anthony Merendino, Junior Partner of Luks, Santaniello, Petrillo & Jones obtained a defense verdict in a slip and fall case styled Ninfa Diaz v. Dr. Griselda Grullon d/b/a Loving Tender Pediatrics in Palm Beach County on November 1, 2012. Plaintiff demanded $600,000 at trial. The jury deliberated less than 10 minutes before rendering a defense verdict. Plaintiff Diaz claimed that she slipped and fell on water inside of her granddaughter’s pediatrician’s office. Plaintiff alleged that as a result of the accident, she suffered multiple disc herniations in her cervical spine at C3-4, C4-5, and C6-7, and in her lumbar spine at L5-S1. Plaintiff underwent a bilateral decompression lumbar laminectomy, facetectomy and foraminotomy in her lumbar spine at L5-S1, as well as a bilateral microdiscectomy at L5-S1 performed by Dr. Yonas Zegeye. Read More
