Ronald Burke

Ron Burke represents victims of accidents and malpractice. He has achieved some of the highest multi-million dollar recoveries in NYS as recognized by the New York Law Journal. In April 2025 he obtained a $1,000,000 verdict for a client who suffered a massive infection in his shoulder after a cortisone injection 3 days earlier.In October 2024. Ron Burke won a $10,414,000 verdict for the family of a 49 year old home improvement contractor who was electrocuted in the attic of a residential home due to a dangerous condition.In June 2023, he won a 95% liability verdict against the driver of an SUV who struck a pedestrian in the crosswalk fracturing his skull and causing brain injuries. Following opening statements in the damages phase of the trial in Kings County he secured a $7,500,000 settlement.In 2022 Ron secured two $5,000,000 verdicts: one involved a labor law construction accident resulting in a pilon fracture tried in Nassau County; and, the second $5M verdict involved a brain infection in a medical-dental malpractice case tried in Kings County. In 2022, he also obtained a settlement of $2.5M for a child struck by a bus.In 2017 Ron Burke won an anesthesia malpractice verdict in New York in the amount of $5.7 million. Ron has been recognized by New York Super Lawyers every year since 2010 -a distinction given to only 5% of attorneys in New York State based on a peer review process. Some of Ron Burke's other verdicts and settlements include: - Verdict of $5,730,000 against New York Presbyterian Hospital for medical malpractice arising out of the wrongful death of a recovering stroke victim. - Verdict of $4,500,000 for a steel welder who fell off an unsecured ladder onto his dominant right hand resulting in wrist and spinal surgeries.- Verdict of $7,900,000 against a neurosurgeon who negligently performed cervical fusion surgery that failed in weeks leaving the patient partially paralyzed. - Settlement of $7,250,000 after 30 days of trial, on behalf of a former New York City Corrections Officer who shot herself in the head in a failed suicide attempt and survived only with spastic quadriplegia-paralyzed from the neck down. - Verdict of $2,000,000 against a physician for failing to refer a 45 year old patient with elevated PSA scores to a urologist for a biopsy of the prostate leading to a delay in diagnosis and poorer outcome. - Verdict for $4,500,000 for a steel welder who fell off an unsecured ladder onto his dominant right hand resulting in wrist and spinal surgeries. See other case results at Ronaldcburke.com