In addition to appearances promoting consumer safety on the NBC Nightly News, Oprah, 48 Hours, 20/20, Dateline NBC and other national venues, Ted’s work and cases have won note in local and national print media. Here are some representative stories:
Palm Beach Post:
Malpractice Lawyer Blazes His Own Trail: Profile of Ted Babbitt
Ted Babbitt, in short, can be a thorn in the side of the medical community, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
The New York-born medical malpractice and product liability lawyer is at the top of his heap, professionally speaking. His curriculum vitae includes a long list of prestigious professional associations he’s joined, committee memberships he’s earned and legal publications he’s produced.
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People Magazine:
The Good Fight
In Her Son’s Name, Waitress Elaina Valdes Gets Florida to Write a New Medical Malpractice Law
Article excerpt: In her naïveté, Valdes had no idea she was taking on two of the state’s most powerful lobbies: the insurance industry and the medical establishment. “One legislator told me, ‘Honey, you’re against the big boys; it ain’t gonna happen,’ ” she recalls. For several months it didn’t. But after the initial frustrations, Valdes discovered an ally in the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers. In the fall of 1994 she showed up at the offices of Ted Babbitt, a high-profile malpractice lawyer, to ask for help. “I don’t see people unannounced,” Babbitt says. “But she struck up a conversation with my receptionist, who came in and told me I might want to speak with this woman.” Babbitt immediately pledged his assistance in drawing up a bill.
New York Times:
Suit Contends City Failed to Prevent Adoption Fraud
New York City violated the rights of 10 disabled children who were adopted more than a decade ago by a former Queens woman who abused them and used government subsidies meant for their care to support a lavish lifestyle, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
Palm Beach Post:
Killer’s Son Gets $30 Million For Loss of Mother
As a jury was about to announce Friday how much money 13-year-old Fredchen Keller should get from the estate of his late father, who murdered the boy’s mother, attorneys reached a settlement that gives the boy $30 million.
The settlement cost Fredchen $10 million. Minutes after the terms were explained to Circuit Judge Edward Garrison, the panel awarded him $40 million. The “global settlement” also increases the amount of money other members of the family of Rosemarie Keller — who was murdered by her ex-husband, Fred Keller — received in recent trials.
Daily Business Review/American Lawyer Publications:
Top Litigation Shops: Babbitt Johnson spearheaded fight to end early lease termination fees
Babbitt Johnson Osborne & LeClainche was showcased in the Daily Business Review, South Florida’s legal newspaper of record, as a Top Litigation Shop for its role in restoring $85 million in credit to tenants who were charged illegal “lease termination fees.” The firm consistently won at trial and appeals levels on tenants’ behalf over years of litigation.
Palm Beach Post:
Kia Told To Pay Millions in Death
A jury Friday awarded $10 million to the parents of a 19-year-old college student killed in a rollover of her Kia Sportage sports utility vehicle, a car jurors said was negligently designed.
“It was a serious design failure in that car that failed to protect the occupant,” jury foreman Bill Bradberry said after the verdict against Kia Motors Inc. The 1995 Kia Sportage flipped over six times after Angelique Cintron swerved when a car came into her lane as she was driving on Florida’s Turnpike south of Orlando. Cintron, a student returning to her West Palm Beach home from Florida State University, was wearing a seat belt. She died of head injuries in the Nov. 7, 1997, crash.
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