Doc’s Delayed Treatment of Teen’s Collapsed Lung Garners $22M Jury Award
One of the largest jury verdicts award in New York in 2014 came in the case of 16-year-old Carlos Buri, who, while in hospital care for pneumonia on May 29, 2009, suffered a collapsed lung and severe...
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3 Buried When Ground Gives Way Outside Brooklyn Rowhouse: FDNY
The workers were digging an extension in the yard of a rowhouse on Wilson Street in Williamsburg that was under renovation at the time of the accident. The owner of the building did not have a permit...
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Woman struck and killed by MTA bus while crossing Brooklyn street
A woman was crossing E. 17 St. in Sheepshead Bay on Monday night when she was hit by a B36 bus. KEN MURRAY/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS There were 125 pedestrian fatalities in 2014, and 120 so far in 2015....
View ArticleJury Awards $172M for Girl’s Injuries After 16-Year Court Battle
The largest New York jury award for a personal injury in 2014 was $172,381,728 in the case of Applewhite v. AccuHealth Inc. The case arose from a 1998 incident that left 12-year-old Tiffany Applewhite...
View ArticleDriver Awarded $14M in Bus Collision Despite Questions of Health History
In one of the largest personal injury awards of 2014, a Brooklyn jury ordered the ironically named Careful Bus Service, Inc. to pay an elderly ambulette driver $14 million. The case arose from a...
View ArticleLabor Law §240(1) Allows Injured Construction Worker to Claim $62M Jury Award
In 2014, a Chinese immigrant received the largest personal injury award in the history of Queens, New York, when a jury returned a verdict for $62 million. The worker, who fell 20 feet from a roof...
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SKETCHES OF COURT: Verdict in favor of electrocuted plaintiff in labor law trial
Court sketch by Alba Acevedo | Brooklyn Daily Eagle Plaintiff was a journeyman electrician who was electrocuted at a public middle school construction project in Brooklyn. He claimed that this was...
View ArticleSKETCHES OF COURT: Verdict in favor of electrocuted plaintiff in labor law trial
Plaintiff was a journeyman electrician who was electrocuted at a public middle school construction project in Brooklyn. He claimed that this was because he and his foreman were required to work on...
View ArticleDifficulties of Dealing with the TA
Our firm was recently contacted and interviewed by a local newspaper doing a story about the NYC Transit Authority. The TA was on the reporter’s mind because following a subway derailment in Harlem, TA...
View ArticleHow to Save on Costly Appeals Involving the TA
Over the last several years, our firm has gotten numerous successful verdicts against the NYC Transit Authority. The TA appealed every one. That’s what the TA does. Regardless of how dismal its chances...
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