Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf is a New York Plaintiff's personal injury law firm specializing in automobile accidents, construction accidents, medical malpractice, products liability, police misconduct and all types of New York personal injury litigation.

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ben%20small.jpgOur managing partner Ben Rubinowitz will be lecturing on Trial Advocacy at the NYC flagship program of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association “Decisions 2014: Recent Developments in Tort Law” on September 13th 2014 at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 7th Ave, NY,NY.

Ben will speak about recent developments in the law and provide concrete examples of methods that can be used to deal with these new issues.

Decisions 2014 is a must for personal injury lawyers practicing in New York. The program will cover the following topics: Damages, Discovery, Ethic and professionalism, Evidence, Insurance, Jurisdiction, Labor Law, Legislation, Mass Torts, Medical Malpractice, Medicare & ERISA, Motor Vehicle Liability & Developments in No-fault, Municipal Liability, Pleading & Filing, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Trial Practice, Workers’ Compensation.

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Daniel Rodriguez was drunk when he crashed his van into another car occupied by a 9 day old baby girl, her dad and a friend. The impact was so strong that the car jumped the curb injuring a pedestrian. After the crash the car started to smoke. A 60 year old man who witnessed the accident was able to run to the car, remove the baby from her seat and take her to safety. The driver of the van, the pedestrian and the passengers of the car including the newborn suffered personal injury and were taken to the hospital to be treated. The accident happened Friday night at 7:30 pm at the corner of 145th Street and Powell Blvd in Harlem, New York.Read more in the New York Daily News.

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StarNetworkMagnicubesLARGE.jpgAs part of a settlement of an administrative case based on product defect filed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in December 2012, the company Star Networks USA announced a voluntary recall of all Magnicubes Spheres sets and Magnicube Cubes sets. These sets contains high power rare earth magnets that create a substantial injury hazard. The CPSC received numerous reports describing teenagers or children who died or suffered serious personal injury requiring surgery after ingesting the small magnets.

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Our New York Personal Injury Law Firm is proud to announce that 9 of their lawyers were listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2015.

Jeffrey B. Bloom, Seymour Boyers, Anthony H. Gair, Howard S. Hershenhorn, Stephen H. Mackauf, Ben B. Rubinowitz, Ernest R. Steigman and Richard M. Steigman were selected in the following practice areas:

Jeffrey B. Bloom, listed in Best Lawyers since 2007

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A woman in her 20s was hospitalized in critical condition after she was hit by a van last night around 3:00 am. According to the New York Daily News, the woman was running across 10th Street under a pouring rain when a van driving northbound on Hudson St. hit her. The driver stayed at the scene and he wasn’t charged. He told the police he never saw the woman.

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Last year in New York 151 people were struck by subway trains and 53 of them died. There are many reasons why people are being injured or killed by a train: they fall on the tracks after feeling ill, they are pushed by someone else, they loose something on the track and try to go pick it up or they jump in front of the train to commit suicide. To stop the staggering amount of injuries and deaths happening on its tracks, the MTA is testing sensors and video systems that would prevent people who fall on the tracks to be struck by a train. The systems use high-tech devices to alert the driver if someone falls on the tracks. The tests look promising and the MTA executives are planning to install such systems in subway stations between 2015 and 2019.

Read more in the New York Daily News

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A car accident near the Long Island Expressway in Maspeth, Queens, NYC, left 4 men injured on Sunday morning. Three men in their 20ies were riding in a Nissan Sedan when the driver ran a red light and crashed into a Mercedes Benz. The driver of the Mercedes Benz was critically injured while the three young men suffered serious personal injury. The police found marijuana and heroin in the Nissan. The three men are expected to be charged after their release from the hospital.

Read more in the New York Daily News

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tour%20bus%20accident%20time%20square.jpgAt least 14 people suffered personal injury after the driver of a doudble-decker red Gray Line sightseeing bus sideswiped a parked double-decker City Sights bus and another vehicle before jumping the curb onto the sidewalk at 47th Street ad 7th Ave in Manhattan next to the TKTS discount ticket. The bus crash happened in the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday and sent a traffic light falling to the ground with debris flying all over the place in an area crowded with tourists. 3 people sustained serious injuries while all others were minor. The bus driver was initially arrested by the police and charged for driving while impaired but yesterday night the prosecutors delayed charges against him and released him from custody.

Read more in the New York Times and the Daily News

Picture source: FDNY Twitter

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Speeding and failure to yield to pedestrians are the leading causes of traffic fatalities and personal injuries to pedestrians in New York City. Therefore as part of the Vision Zero Initiative all NYPD precincts have been instructed at the beginning of this year to increase enforcement of the most dangerous traffic violations.

A new report card from Transportation Alternatives published last week looks at six months of Vision Zero Traffic Enforcement in New York City. Globally across the city, speeding tickets increased by 32% and tickets for failure to yield increased by 153% for the first 6 months of 2014 compared to the first 6 months of 2013. However while looking at the numbers precinct by precinct, Transportation Alternative discovered huge discrepancies. The most troubling was to find neighborhood precincts with similar traffic conditions and street design that had very different enforcement efforts. For example In Harlem,the 26th Precinct nearly doubled the number of speeding summonses issued from last year(294 to 533),

while the adjacent 30th Precinctin Washington Heights issued half as many summonses as they did the prior year.

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rubinowitz_ben.jpgGGCSMB&R is proud to announce that our Managing Partner New York Personal Injury Attorney Ben Rubinowitz was the 2013 recipient of the Robert Keeton Award for Outstanding Service as a National Institute for Trial Advocay (NITA) Faculty Member. This award recognizes Ben’s exceptional work as a NITA faculty member. Here is what NITA has to say about Ben: “In considering his nomination, it was recognized that “Ben is a ‘best’ teacher and deserves the best teacher award.” He began teaching early in his career, and has contributed to new and evolving methods, such as “drills” and the drill room. He lectures in the same persona that he presents to a jury-a consummate role model.”

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) is the nation’s leading provider of legal advocacy skills training. It is a deidcated team of professors, judges and practicing lawyers who believe that skilled and ethical advocacy is a critical component of legal professionalism and all systems of dispute resolution that seek justice

Below is a video demonstrating Ben’s skills as a NITA teacher

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