Manhole Cover Rips Into New York City Bus
An iron manhole cover reportedly flew up through the floor of a Metro Transit Authority (MTA) bus August 4, lodging directly below a passenger’s seat. The cover ripped through the plywood lining the...
View ArticleA Delay in Notifying Next of Kin of their Loved One’s death Violates the...
A New York court has held that the City of New York violated the right of sepulcher by failing to timely notify a family that one of its members died in a car accident. The common law right of...
View ArticleConstruction Worker Falls 25 Feet in Midtown Accident
A construction worker at a Hudson Yards apartment complex project reportedly fell 25 feet on August 3. The worker was on the second floor of the building when witnesses say he plunged through a...
View ArticleLawsuit Filed After New York Limousine Accident
One of the survivors of a deadly limousine accident on Long Island earlier this summer has filed a civil lawsuit for damages related to her injuries. On July 18, a pickup truck reportedly struck the...
View ArticleBicyclist Struck and Killed in Queens Accident
A man from Queens who was critically injured when a car hit him as he cycled in a bike lane has died from his injuries, according to authorities. The 18-year-old victim was reportedly riding northbound...
View ArticleGoshen Tragedy Raises Questions of Driver’s Ed Instructor Liability
On Tuesday morning, July 14th, three high school students sustained fatal injuries when their driver’s education car entered an intersection and was struck broadside by a tractor trailer. The accident,...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler Recalls Dodge Charger Vehicles
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles recently issued a recall for 322,000 Dodge Charger sedans, prompted by malfunctioning side airbags that could deploy if the car’s doors are slammed shut. The recall...
View ArticleNY Times Reports Dramatic Increase in Fatal Construction Accidents
New York is a city in constant flux, always re-imagining and reconstituting itself. Construction is a major part of the dynamism that is New York. But the recent spike in construction citywide has some...
View ArticleSuing the Robot: Who’s At-Fault When Driverless Cars Crash?
The prospect of fully autonomous, self-driving cars is mind-boggling and reassuring at the same time. Most of us are comfortable with our own driving skills and are a bit leery of turning the wheel...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Rules Governing Expert Testimony in NY Courts
Expert testimony is critically important in personal injury cases to prove what caused the accident and the full extent of the victim’s injuries. Our attorneys often use accident reconstruction...
View ArticleJury Awards $62M to Brooklyn Mom Who Lost Both Legs in Hospital Malpractice Case
Last year, a jury in New York awarded 34-year-old Stacey Galette $62 million in compensation for hospital negligence that resulted in the loss of both legs below the knees. On October 6, 2009, the...
View ArticleWho Pays if You’re Hurt at an Airbnb Rental?
The Internet company Airbnb is changing how Americans travel and how we earn extra income. Airbnb is an online service that matches travelers with homeowners and renters who have spare rooms to offer...
View ArticleJury Awards Bronx Grandmother $16M for Subway Slip and Fall
In one of New York’s largest personal injury awards of 2014, a jury ordered the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) to pay a 69-year-old woman $16 million for a fall she suffered at the Graham...
View ArticleDoc’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...
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