A Las Vegas jury awarded $160 million to a New York City hedge fund manager who sued The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Roof Deck Entertainment LLC as well as the manager of the club and security guards who worked there.

The man filed a lawsuit claiming that in April of 2012 he was attacked by a manager and security officers at the Marquee nightclub. He was managing a $1 billion hedge fund and earned roughly $11 million a year in his job, but due to his injuries he claimed he was no longer able to perform his duties.

The lawsuit claimed security officers forced the man into a security room and demanded his ID and credit card after he’d already paid a $10,000 bill.

The man’s attorney, Paul Padda, wrote in the complaint that Marquee staff and mangers shoved the man to the ground and caused his head to hit the concrete surface forcefully. The suit went on to claim the man’s head was repeatedly hit by the security and manager and his head was smashed into the concrete. They then mocked and questioned him and he feared for his life.

The man was later taken to Desert Springs Hospital for his injuries where he was diagnosed with a concussion, a bruised right eye, head swelling, sore arms, knees and neck. The complaint alleges he has difficulty walking and concentrating, endures headaches, anxiety and was diagnosed by a neurosurgeon with a traumatic brain injury.

His fund was ultimately shut down and he has been unable to get work.

After this incident, another couple attending an insurance convention was attacked by security staff at the Marquee club and they also filed a lawsuit.

It was a five-week trial where the defense attorneys claimed the man actually attacked the staff first and did not suffer any brain injuries during this altercation.

The family of a boy injured by nearly drowning at Cowabunga Bay reached a $49 million settlement with the water park located in Henderson, NV.

A then six-year-old named Leland Gardner was submerged for some time in May of 2015 and had already incurred over $900,000 in medical bills before the agreement had been reached. The lawsuit filed alleged Cowabunga did not have enough lifeguards on duty to help Leland when he was underwater.

Personal injury attorney Donald Campbell represented the boy and his family and stated in the suit that there were six (6) lifeguards on duty at Cowabunga Bay’s Surf-A-Rama Wave Pool but that the Southern Nevada Health District said the park needed at least 17. The health district issued a report stating the water park submitted a proposal that met with expectations but failed to actually maintain the adequate lifeguard coverage at the wave pool on multiple occasions.

The boy had gone on a playdate with a friend and the friend’s father and was not wearing a life jacket when he went into the wave pool. The boy fell off his inner tube and was submerged underwater. The boy was hospitalized for weeks because of neurological damage because he from hypoxic and anoxic brain injury which disrupted the flow of oxygen to the brain. He requires 24-hour care for grooming, dressing, bathing, sitting and all other functions. He is fed through a tube in his abdomen according to the settlement.

A medical expert reported he could live for decades and his medical costs would be between $40 million and $59 million.

A Las Vegas jury awarded $1.8 million to a man who had a 57-inch wire left in his body after surgery.

The surgical error case involved a 70-year-old man who lived for a decade with this almost 5-foot long wire in his body due to a surgical error following angioplasty. The medical malpractice suit was against a cardiologist who performed the surgery in 2005 as well as against his company, Heart Center of Nevada.

The man, German “OT” Ortiz and his wife Angela were represented by plaintiff attorney James J. Jimmerson. Ortiz is a 22-year veteran of the Air Force who received a Bronze Star for his service and has lived in Las Vegas for three decades. He is a minister and youth pastor at Cornerstone Christian Academy and Preschool and had two-thirds of the wire removed for a heart procedure. They are still more than 20 inches of wire stretching down to his thigh.

The wire was inserted when he went to University Medical Center emergency room 14 years ago while experiencing shortness of breath. Doctors found he had congestive heart failure and that Ortiz needed an angiogram where a catheter is inserted through the bloodstream to distribute a dye allowing doctors to take a picture of blood vessels. When it was removed, a guide wire remained in his body.

The doctor was represented by Patricia Daehnke who denied the doctor had any clue the wire had been left in the patient’s body and in fact did not know until the lawsuit had been filed.

Ortiz’s medical malpractice lawyer Mr. Jimmerson claimed the doctor’s arrogance lead to him denying his responsibility for the wire. Mr. Ortiz was also represented by James M. Jimmerson.

A medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed that the failure of a hospital employee to begin emergency resuscitation quickly enough during surgery left her with permanent brain damage settled the case for an undisclosed amount.

Billed as a $63 million lawsuit, the case involved plaintiff Elisa Sales and Summerlin Hospital Medical Center located in Las Vegas, NV. The confidential settlement was reached shortly after the jury heard closing arguments in a trial involving 15 days of testimony. The plaintiff’s attorney was Sean Claggett of the Claggett & Sykes Law Firm who accused the Summerlin doctors and supporting staff of failing to act in a timely manner when Ms. Sales went into respiratory arrest during what should have been a routine outpatient pacemaker replacement.

Attorney Claggertt argued in the medical malpractice lawsuit that the lack of blood flow to Ms. Sales’ brain left her with the mental capacity of a child and asked the jury to award he rand her husband up to $63 million in damages.

Summerlin Hospital was represented by Michael Prangle of Hall Prangle & Schoonveld and he argued the hospital’s resuscitative efforts were consistent with the standard of care. He also argued that Ms. Sales’ alleged neurological impairment was the result of a pre-existing condition.

Both attorneys argued over how and when current medical standards dictate emergency resuscitation should begin as well as whether Ms. Sales condition during the surgery required such measures. Neither attorney talked to the media after the confidential settlement was reached.

The trial included 18 factual witnesses and 13 expert witnesses.

The case is The case is captioned Elisa Sales v. Summerlin Hospital and Medical Center, case number A-17-758060-C in the 8th District Court of Nevada, Clark County.