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…
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…
For those of us who represent plaintiff’s in medical malpractice cases it is, of course obvious that the law requires the Notice of Claim to be served on The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. It is basic law that service upon the Comptroller of the City of New…
Fetal monitoring system display Los Angeles County officials are expected to approve a $2.8 million settlement of a medical malpractice suit filed against medical staff at County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center over their failure to perform an emergency cesarean section after signs of distress. The 18-year-old woman, Guadalupe Fernandez, gave birth…
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…
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…
This presentation is part of the New York State Bar Association Construction Site Accidents seminar 2009 In this segment Howard completes the opening for plaintiff followed by the opening for defendant. This years program will be held State Wide in December. Ben Rubinowitz will chair the seminar in Melville, New…
This presentation is part of the New York State Bar Association Construction Site Accidents seminar 2009. This years program will be held State Wide in December. See our prior post: Labor Law/Construction Site Accidents in New York for details. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjAY3-450mw
In Salazar v.Novalex Contracting Corp., et al., decided on November 21, 2011, The New York Court of Appeals in a 4-3 decision granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing a construction worker’s 240(1) claim. The plaintiff suffered injury while working in the basement of a building undergoing renovation. The facts…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHTQ8y3c9AM One of the best New York personal injury trial lawyers, Ben Rubinowitz, a partner at Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf , demonstrates the importance of a well prepared opening statement. The presentation was given to lawyers at a Trial Law seminar in 2009. The case…