Ben B. Rubinowitz Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Our partner, Ben Rubinowitz, achieved one of the highest awards for an 83 year old man who suffered a fractured leg as a result of being struck by a car: $1,120,000.00. The injured man was an 83 year old…
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In New York Personal Injury Case Defendant’s Discovery Demand For Access To Plaintiff’s Facebook Account Denied
In the recent New York personal injury case of Sterling v. May, the Honorable George Silver of the Supreme Court, New York County, denied defendant’s demand for an authorization for plaintiff’s Facebook account, noting that to allow defendants to gain such access based solely upon the fact that plaintiff acknowledged…
Michigan woman wins $2.5 million medical malpractice lawsuit against St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor
A Washtenaw County Circuit Court jury awarded a teacher $2.5 million in a medical malpractice verdict, after suffering permanent injury during a procedure at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Amy Garcia suffered a miscarriage in 2007 causing the death of her 14-week-old fetus and as a result required a dilation and…
The Superseding Cause Defense In New York Personal Injury Cases
In personal injury cases in New York the defense of an intervening act as a superseding cause of plaintiff’s injury will often be raised to absolve defendant’s negligence as a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury. From the plaintiff’s perspective it should be argued that questions of causation are in most…
Personal Injury News Roundup
Doctor named in wrongful death suit (Northern Virginia Daily) 60-year-old woman pleads to drunk driving crash that hit a family of pedestrians (The Grand Rapids Press, MI) Diver’s Lawsuit Alleges Work-Related Collapsed Lung Injuries (U.S. Dist. Ct. LA W.D.) Hallmark Sued for House Fire Linked to Snow Globe (AP) Woman…
Personal Injury News Roundup
Lawyers consider filing about 100 malpractice cases against Dr. Spyros Panos (Poughkeepsie Journal, NY) Boy dies when church van hit by drunken driver, FHP says (Herald-Tribune, FL) Jury doles out $9M in broken neck case; malpractice award thought to be largest ever in Wyo. (Washington Post) Crash victim sues San…
Labor Law/Construction Site Accidents in New York
Howard S. Hershenhorn Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Christopher Sallay Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Howard S. Hershenhorn will serve as Overall Planning Chair and Christopher L. Sallay will serve as Assistant Chair of the New York Bar Association‘s Labor Law/Construction Site…
2011 Motor Vehicle Accident Litigation: The Road Less Travelled
In this new program, an outstanding faculty, including partners of many of New York State’s leading plaintiff and defendant personal injury law firms, will focus on specific types of cases frequently encountered in motor vehicle litigation. Open to both new and experienced attorneys, this practice-based program will present the “nuts…
Decisions 2011: Recent Developments In Tort Law
TRIAL PRACTICE Richard M. Steigman, Esq. Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Our attorney Richard Steigman will be speaking at the The New York State Trial Lawyers Association Decisions 2011 program on November 2, 2011. The topic he will be speaking on is Trial Practice. This annual event…
Personal Injury News Roudup
Cambridge police settle civil rights case (Bay State Banner, MA) Hawaii-based soldier’s lawsuit against Burger King claims he swallowed needles in hamburger (AP) Paralyzed East Naples woman settles lawsuit against three doctors (Naples Daily News, FL) Paralyzed teen’s family wins medical malpractice suit (Detroit Free Press) Portland parents sue Legacy…