An elderly pedestrian succumbed to her wounds two days after she was hit by a FedEx van. Lubov Brodskaya was crossing Ave J near E 12th Street in Midwood, Brooklyn, NYC around 1;30 pm on Wednesday when the accident happened. The van which was turning right onto Ave J hit the woman…
Nearly a dozen people were injured in a bus accident in New York City yesterday afternoon. The bus was traveling on the north bond bus lane of Woodhaven Boulevard when a SUV traveling in the same direction cut in front of it to make a right turn. The bus driver tried to…
22 people including 10 firefighters suffered personal injury in a two-alarm fire that ravaged the 16th and 17th floors of a high rise building on 3333 Broadway in Manhattan. The fire started around 10:00 am in the morning and firefighters battled the blaze for two hours until it was controlled (read…
Motor vehicle accidents continue to rise in New York City. A comparison of data on a trimester basis shows that the number of vehicle accidents during the second trimester of 2015 was the highest of any trimester over the last 3 years. However, even though the total number of vehicle accidents…
Our managing partner Ben Rubinowitz will be speaking at the San Antonio Trial Lawyer Association “Real World Annual CLE Seminar – Trial Techinques, Approaches and Jury Persuasion” on Friday September 11th at the Wyndham Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio. Ben’s successes as a trial lawyer and expertise in his field have…
Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf is proud to announce that 10 of their New York Personal Injury Lawyers were listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2016. Marijo Adimey, Jeffrey B. Bloom, Seymour Boyers, Anthony H. Gair, Howard S. Hershenhorn, Stephen H. Mackauf, Ben B. Rubinowitz, Christopher Sallay and Richard M. Steigman were selected…
Congratulations to our managing partner Ben Rubinowitz for being recognized by Best Lawyers® as the 2016 Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs “Lawyer of the Year” in New York City. This is in recognition of his history of helping people injured by the negligence and carelessness of others. Throughout his career, New York…
A nurse was charged with endangering a patient suffering from dementia after she was caught splashing water and hitting a nursing home resident during a bed bath. Mina Maxine Gayle-Campbell, a certified nurse aid at the Shore View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brooklyn, NYC was caught on camera last April…
3 people from New York City were killed in a car accident Saturday afternoon on the Taconic State Parkway near Yorktown, NY. 8 others were injured including one who is still in critical condition. According to the police investigators, 33 year old Nerim Sinanovic from the Bronx, NYC, was driving north…
Our managing partner, Ben Rubinowitz will be a speaker at the New York State Lawyer Association Seminar “Decisions 2015: Recent Developments in Tort Law – NYC” that will take place in Manhattan on September 25 and 26. Ben will speak on the 26th. The following topics will be covered: Damages Discovery…