5132 Olentangy River Road
Columbus, OH 43235

614 442 5784
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Rick Topper handles a variety of cases successfully. The following are an example of cases he's won or settled.

*Please note that many defendants request confidentiality.
Therefore their names may be listed as John Doe or John Doe Corporation.


Garey vs Family Practice - $4,000,000.00 verdict for the daughter of a 49-year old woman whose family doctor failed to diagnose her stomach cancer.

Carter vs Oak Hill Hospital - $1,500,000.00 verdict for the family of a young man whose pathologist misread a surgical slide leading to a delay of treatment of abdominal cancer.

Doe vs John Doe Hospital - $1,500,000.00 settlement for the negligent treatment of a young man's psychiatric illness leading to his being a quadriplegic.

Doe Estate vs John Doe - $1,300,000.00 settlement for the parents and daughter of a 35 year old man killed as a result of a car/motorcycle collision.

Doe Estate vs John Doe Hospital/John Doe Radiologists - $850,000.00 settlement for the family of a young woman whose physicians failed to properly diagnose and treat a blood clot in the venous system of the brain.

Jane Doe vs Doe Hospital - $825,000.00 settlement for death caused by an emergency room's failure to diagnose and treat a young woman's ectopic (tubal) pregnancy.

Moulton vs Gahman - $725,000.00 verdict for the estate of an older woman whose physicians failed to diagnose ovarian cancer.

Scholer vs Bloom-Carroll School District - $685,000.00 settlement for a man seriously injured in a collision with a school bus.

Jane Doe vs Doe Emergency Room - $650,000.00 settlement for a family of a young woman whose physicians at the emergency room failed to property diagnose and treat a pulmonary embolus (blood clots in the lung).

Akers vs Holzer Clinic - $600,000.00 verdict for pain and suffering endured for two years due to a physician's misdiagnosis of bladder cancer.

Jane Doe vs Doe Hospital/Doe Neurologists - $600,000.00 settlement for a woman who suffered and lost income due to her physician's failing to properly treat a stroke.

Jane Doe Estate vs Roe Family Practice - $500,000.00 wrongful death settlement for the adult children for a family physician's failure to diagnose lung cancer in their mother.

Doe vs Doe Hospital Corporation - $500,000.00 settlement for the family of a young man whose stay at a hospital whose staff failed to properly diagnose and properly treat epiglottitis, a swelling of the epiglottis near the trachea.

Jane Doe vs Jane Doe Hospital/Radiologist/Family Practice - $500,000.00 settlement for pain and suffering and loss of income for woman whose physician and radiologist failed to diagnose breast cancer.

Buehler vs Schneider Trucking - $400,000.00 arbitration award for a man suffering a back injury as a result of a rear end collision.

Jane Doe vs Rowe Orthopedics - $350,000.00 settlement for a woman whose physician failed to properly diagnose and treat a knee infection which led to a knee replacement.

Doe vs Doe Corporation - $250,000.00 settlement for a gentleman whose foot was crushed while operating a tow motor. This was a products liability case against the manufacture of the tow motor.

John Doe vs John Doe Corporation - $200,000.00 products liability case involving a settlement for a young man injured by a piece of construction equipment.





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