Relatives are suing the nursing home where a 77-year-old dementia resident walked away from last month and later died. International drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay more than a quarter billion dollars to settle most of the lawsuits arising from Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak. A woman who had a…
New York Personal Injury Attorneys Blog
Summary Judgment Granted For Construction Worker on 240(1) Claim for Injury in New York Construction Accident
In Kempisty v 246 Spring St., LLC, 2012 NY Slip Op 00901, Decided on February 9, 2012, New York Appellate Division, First Department, The Court modified the decision of the lower Court dismissing the plaintiff’s 240(1) claim to the extent of reinstating the § 240(1) claim and granting plaintiff summary…
New York Injury Attorney Howard Hershenhorn: Opening Statement in a Construction Accident Case
This presentation is part of the New York State Bar Association Construction Site Accidents seminar 2011. Howard Hershenhorn is a partner at Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf. Mr. Hershenhorn has extensive experience in high profile personal injury cases in the areas of medical malpractice, automobile accidents,…
Personal Injury News Roundup
A California resident traveling board the Holland America Line’s Rotterdam cruise ship sues the company for negligence. Jury selection is under way in a multimillion-dollar medical malpractice lawsuit against Indian River Medical Center, having to do with an infant born dead to a St. Lucie County couple in 2008 who…
New York Construction Accident Law- Construction Worker Granted Summary Judgment on 240(1) Claim
In this New York construction accident the motion by plaintiff’s lawyers for summary judgment on his Labor Law 240(1) claim was granted by The Court in Rich v West 31st St. Assoc., LLC, 2012 NY Slip Op 00734, Decided on February 2, 2012, Appellate Division, First Department. Plaintiff, was injured…
Stephen Mackauf To Speak At New York State Bar Association Seminar-Medical Malpractice-2012
Our partner Stephen Mackauf will speak at the New York City Seminar, Medical Malpractice-2012. He will discuss Deposition and Trial Examination of the Defendant. This seminar is sponsored by The New York State Bar Association and is being held State wide. The New York City Seminar is scheduled for March…
New York Construction Accident Law
In Torres v Our Townhouse, LLC, 2012 NY Slip Op 00418 decided on January 24, 2012 The New York Appellate Division, First Department in a one paragraph decision reversed the denial of plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment on his Labor Law § 240(1) cause of action and granted the…
US Moves to Block Medical Malpractice Lawsuits by Military Families
From RSN; “In defending the U.S. military’s medical system in court, the U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that service personnel and their families are not allowed to sue for medical malpractice regardless of the circumstance. As a general rule, military members are barred from taking the government to court,…
Personal Injury News Roundup
A jury recently found in favor of a plaintiff in a malpractice lawsuit, and awarded him and his wife a record-breaking $9 million in damages after the doctor failed to order a X-rays or a computed tomography (CT) scan of the plaintiff’s neck. A woman injured in a wreck by…
Anthony Gair: Current State of New York Construction Accident Law
In this seminar, Labor Law/Construction Site Accidents in New York, presented by the New York State Bar association on December 9, 2011 Gair discusses section 240(1) cases including Runner v New York Stock Exch., Inc. (13 NY3d 599, [2009]), Salazar v.Novalex Contracting Corp., et al., decided by The Court of…