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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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