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On October 3, 2019, a Nassau County Judge found a general contractor liable as a matter of law for the injuries suffered by a 46 year old construction worker who fell while working on the roof of a mansion in Old Westbury, New York. The plaintiff testified that neither he or any of the other roof...
Yesterday, a Philadelphia jury awarded an $8 Billion verdict in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson (the folks who brought us the opioid epidemic) for the deceptive marketing of their drug Risperdal. The award was provided to a man who had been prescribed the anti-pschotic drug Risperdal a...
On October 3, 2019, an appellate court found that a Manhattan jury had unreasonably failed to award any damages to a plaintiff who proved that a New York City police officer had used excessive force while arresting him. The jury found that the cop had smashed the plaintiff's face with a bullet-pr...
On October 11, 2019, a Kings County Supreme Court Judge (with 13 years on the bench) was suspended following federal charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Justice Sylvia Ash, the presiding judge of the commercial division in Kings Supreme Court since January 2016, had been the Chairpe...
In 2016 a Queens Jury awarded $1,800,000 to a motorist involved in a car accident due to a metal object that fell from an elevated subway track over a road and through the windshield of the plaintiff's car. The NYC Transit Authority (NYCTA) refused to pay and appealed claiming the award was exces...
Last week, an appellate court reviewing the dismissal of a legal malpractice suit agreed: “Emails may be considered as documentary evidence if those papers are essentially undeniable.” The plaintiff sued the law firm that allegedly drafted a postnuptial agreement between him and his wife. The pla...
On September 20, 2019, First Mercury Insurance Company filed a lawsuit against the Manhattan based law firm of D'Amato & Lynch claiming that it unethically deposited a $1 million dollar settlement check into its operating account rather than a trust or escrow account. Worse yet, First Mercury cla...
Last month the Appellate Division, Second Department was called upon to review a Kings County jury verdict that was shockingly low - implying a great dislike for the victim of a rear end car accident. The plaintiff established the defendant's liability for the collision based on a pre-trial Order...
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