Practice Experience
- Mr. Wolk is a member of the firm's Plaintiff's litigation division, where he focuses on tort litigation, especially cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death.
- Many of Mr. Wolk's recent cases have concerned complex medical and nursing home malpractice, medical device and drug liability, legal malpractice, premises liability, and consumer class actions.
- He also represents clients in insurance coverage/bad faith matters and class actions and has represented individuals and corporate clients in a wide-variety of complex commercial litigation.
- He practices at both the trial and appellate levels.
Representative Matters and Published Decisions
Representative matters handled by Mr. Wolk include:
- The seven-figure settlement of a complex medical malpractice and medical products case arising from the use of a defective spinal implant during an unnecessary spinal fusion surgery.
- The seven-figure settlement of a wrongful death case caused when a dangerous dietary supplement incapacitated a 26-year-old man while he was driving to work.
- The seven-figure settlement of a medical malpractice case involving the delayed diagnosis and treatment of a knee joint infection, leading to amputation.
- The successful settlement of an insurance bad-faith case against an insurer that had denied coverage for a construction accident for more than five years.
- The successful resolution of a commercial insurance coverage dispute between a national cellular telephone company and its insurer, a subsidiary of AIG, which resulted in the insurer's payment of more than $2 million to settle a consumer class action lawsuit that had been filed against the telephone company.
