At our firm we have always believed that the “plaintiff’s attorney” fills many roles. Not only as an attorney but as an advisor and friend. Obviously the first priority is to advocate with all one’s skills the client’s cause. The client is most often an individual who under normal circumstances…
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Masters Series Westchester: Openings & Summations
On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Ben Rubinowitz, a partner at Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom and Rubinowitz, will chair the prestigious Masters Program for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. This is a Free Program open to all NYSTLA members. Come see five of the very best trial…
Psych Center Supervisor Is Charged in Wrongful Death of Patient
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…
Personal Injury News Roudup
$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…
Kia to pay $40 million wrongful death verdict for Mobile Accident
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…
Man dies in New York construction accident
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…
New York Personal Injury Case Settled For $5,000,000.00
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…
$3,375,000 Settlement in New York Medical Malpractice Case For Wrongful Death
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.…
Construction Worker’s Motion for Summary Judgment on 240(1) Claim Denied-Question of Fact on Sole Proximate Cause
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…
New York Personal Injury News Roudup
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…