From New York Daily News; “One worker was killed and four others injured when a crane collapsed Tuesday night at the construction site for the MTA No. 7 train extension project,officials said. The man who died, a 29-year-old, was pulled from the pit that sits 60 feet below street level…
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Stephen Mackauf to Co-Chair Obstetric Malpractice Conference
Stephen Mackauf will serve as the Co-Chair for the American Conference Institute‘s 11th Annual Advanced Forum on Preventing, Managing and Defending Against Claims of Obstetric Malpractice held from June 27 to June 28 at the The Union League of Philadelphia. The event is the nation’s premier obstetric malpractice conference and…
Personal Injury News Roundup
In what is being called the largest civil verdict in Pickens County history, a jury has awarded $2.4 million to a man whose wife died of complications from gynecological surgery. Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall about 700,000 vehicles because of a variety of safety issues. Chrysler Group also announced…
$8,850,000.00 SETTLEMENT IN NEW YORK MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASE
Our partner Jeffery Bloom settled this complex and difficult liability New York Medical Malpractice case in New York Supreme Court, Nassau County following two mediations. The case arose as a result of the alleged negligent care by the defendant doctors’ of the plaintiffs’ daughter a then 10-year old girl. It…
NEW YORK CHOICE OF LAW ANALYSIS-TORT LIABILITY
By Rhonda Kay, Partner, Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz; In Edwards v. Erie Coach Lines Co. (17 N.Y.3d 306, 929 N.Y.S.2d 41 [2011]) The New York Court of Appeals clarified choice of law analysis in a multi-party case. New York’s choice of law analysis, commonly referred to…
DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF LIFE IN A NEW YORK WRONGFUL DEATH ACTION FOR VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS BROUGHT PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. §1983
By Anthony Gair; Resolution of whether a plaintiff has a viable action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 turns on whether the applicable state statute is inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States; Robinson v. Wegman, 436 U.S. 584, 98 S. Ct. 1991 (1978) citing 42 U.S.C. §1988.…
Personal Injury News Roundup
A Missouri jury returned a medical malpractice judgment of more than $1 million in favor of the parents of a boy who died during birth at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin before an emergency C-section was performed. San Francisco wrongful death lawsuit against BART police will proceed despite…
JEFFERY BLOOM TO PARTICIPATE IN ISSUES IN NEONATOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Jeffery Bloom will participate in The 2012 Issues In Neonatology Symposium sponsored by Winthrop-University Hospital to be held March 8, 2012 at the Garden City Hotel, 45 Seventh Street, Garden City New York. Jeffery will take part in; The Mock Trial: A Case of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) Moderator and Judge:…
NEW YORK CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT LAW- THE SAME LEVEL RULE-GOING, GOING, GONE?
In McCallister v 200 Park, L.P., 2012 NY Slip Op 01595, decided 2/28/12 The Appellate Division, Second Department, granted the motion by the plaintiff construction worker for summary judgment on his 240(1) claim despite the fact that the base of a scaffold which fell and struck him was at the…
Hershenhorn Quoted in Thomson Reuters Article on 2008 Manhattan Crane Collapses
Howard S. Hershenhorn Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Thomson Reuters, in an article entitled, “Crane collapse trial could be uphill battle for prosecutors” quoted Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf partner, Howard S. Hershenhorn, on the difficulties of prosecuting the 2008 crane collapses in Manhattan that…