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On May 23, 2018, a 47 year old ice cream truck operator won a $1 million jury verdict against an orthopedist and the New York Health & Hospitals Corporation for malpractice which occurred at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens four years earlier.
On May 25, 2018, a Kings County jury awarded $15,228,000 to a concrete laborer who was injured on a construction site in December, 2014. The plaintiff, then age 50, was erecting exterior walls for a new building. An unsecured plank fell from a scaffold and struck the plaintiff which knocked him ...
On July 26, 2018, the appellate court for Bronx Supreme Court actions agreed that the dismissal of a claim for a violation of Judiciary Law 487 was proper. This section of the law allows client's to recover treble damages against attorney's (in limited circumstances) who engage in intentional dec...
This case concerns a New York City (NYC) teacher who suffered spinal injuries in a trip and fall at a public school. Two different law firms successively represented him until his case was dismissed for failing to file a Notice of Claim within 90 days of the accident, against the correct munici...
On June 26, 2018, Justice Barbara Jaffe of the New York County, Supreme Court refused to dismiss the claim of a then 60 year old female patient who sued her male cardiologist for performing a rectal exam despite her protestation.
On June 28, 2018, a Trial Judge in Erie County refused to set aside a jury verdict awarding a trip and fall victim $350,000 for past pain and suffering but nothing for the future even though she sustained a permanent painful injury. The plaintiff fractured her arm and the ball of her hip requirin...
On July 2, 2018 an appellate court covering Queens County upheld the dismissal of a legal malpractice claim that was filed 8 weeks after the 3 year statute of limitations expired. The client had retained an attorney in connection with a loan from a funding company that was secured with a mortgage...
On July 6, 2018 an appellate court covering part of upstate New York held that an employer cannot be held liable for failing to notify an employee of the (life threatening) results of a chest x-ray taken periodically in connection with his employment. The decedent was a Class 1 gas fitter who was...
On June 26, 2018, a Manhattan Judge ruled as a matter of law that a driver of a parked car "who opened her door on the moving side of traffic and struck plaintiff" is liable for violating NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 1214. Those facts raise a rebuttable presumption of negligence. As per st...
On July 6, 2018, the United States (US) and Orange Regional Medical center (ORMC) paid $1,075,000 to settle the claim of a woman who went into septic shock and contracted streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) two days after she underwent a tubal ligation procedure at a federally funded medical clinic. ...
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