Jury 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...
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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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