Staten Island Advance / Landov A supervisor at a state-run psychiatric center has been indicted for the criminally negligent homicide of an autistic 27-year-old patient. The supervisor, Erik Stanley, said he used appropriate procedures in attempting to subdue Jawara Henry, 27, who died Dec. 4 at a Staten Island psychiatric…
$2.1 Million Settlement Reached in Kentucky Military Malpractice Claim, Insurance Journal Texas Town Agrees to Settle in Wrongful Death Suit, Colony Leader Errant Vehicle Kills 3 Women Outside Albany, New York Times Tour Bus Crash in New York Was Third in Three Weeks, International Business Times Train Crash Probe Blames…
A Mobile jury awarded a $40 million wrongful death judgment to the parents of a Mobile County teenager who was killed in a 2004 car accident. The judgment was against Kia Motors and the makers of a seatbelt buckle. Tiffany Stabler was ejected from the vehicle after she struck a…
New York State police confirmed that a 46-year-old Vermont construction worker died of injuries caused sustained in a heavy machinery construction accident. Michael Loyer of South Burlington was working for Trenchless Technologies of New England at a railroad site in Port Kent, New York. The accident occurred while he was…
Partners Ben Rubinowitz, Chris Sallay and Anthony Gair working together settled this personal injury case at mediation with the case on the Trial Calendar for $5,000,000.00. The plaintiff, 47 at the time of the accident, had climbed a fire escape to the third floor of a building when the landing…
Our Partner, Jeffrey Bloom, recently settled a medical malpractice case in New York Supreme Court, Nassau County for $3,375,000 for the wrongful death of a 46 year old husband and father of two young children in which the patient died on the operating table during the performance of back surgery.…
In THOME v. BENCHMARK MAIN TRANSIT ASSOCIATES, LLC, 4th Dept. July 8, 2011, 2011 N.Y. Slip 5884, The Court denied the plaintiff construction worker’s motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff was standing on a scissor lift and, when he repositioned the scissor lift to perform his work, one of its wheels…
Fatal car accident in Fort Greene after a driver that police say was drunk hit a women’s car early Sunday. New York Litigation Against Toyota Begins Crash in upstate NY leaves Finger Lakes chef dead 4 Die and 2 Are Injured as Motor Boat Crashes in Hudson Upstate New York…
By; Anthony Gair, In personal injury cases predicated upon the negligent design of a product,(product liability cases), such as almost any type of machine which is to be used by people of varying training and skill it is imperative for the plaintiff’s attorney to understand the basics of machine design.…
In Losito v Manlyn Dev. Group, Inc., 2011 NY Slip Op 05463, Second Department, June 21, 2011, the plaintiff was required to jump through some hoops but finally prevailed on his cause of action claiming a violation of Section 240(1) of The New York Labor Law. On January 16, 2009…