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.
An elderly pedestrian succumbed to her wounds two days after she was hit by a FedEx van. Lubov Brodskaya was crossing Ave J near E 12th Street in Midwood, Brooklyn, NYC around 1;30 pm on Wednesday when the accident happened. The van which was turning right onto Ave J hit the woman while she was in the crosswalk. The driver stayed at the scene of the accident and wasn’t expected to be charged. The woman sustained severe head injury and was transported to the hospital. She died two days later.
Nearly a dozen people were injured in a bus accident in New York City yesterday afternoon. The bus was traveling on the north bond bus lane of Woodhaven Boulevard when a SUV traveling in the same direction cut in front of it to make a right turn. The bus driver tried to avoid the SUV and swerved before to crash into the building located at the corner of 63rd Avenue. The building was partially destroyed and the wall of an apartment located on the second floor was teared down. At the time of the accident, Colette Landers who resides in the apartment was inside. Thankfully she didn’t sustained any injury but she was shaken up. She explained to CBS that she was about to take a shower when everything flew over in her apartment and the wall fell down.
Witnesses tried to help injured passengers to get out of the bus by the windows however they couldn’t get to the bus driver who was crushed in his seat. They had to wait for the emergency crews to take him out using the jaws of life. He was seriously injured and transported to the hospital with six other passengers who also suffered serious injury. Other passengers were treated on stretchers at the scene of the accident.
22 people including 10 firefighters suffered personal injury in a two-alarm fire that ravaged the 16th and 17th floors of a high rise building on 3333 Broadway in Manhattan. The fire started around 10:00 am in the morning and firefighters battled the blaze for two hours until it was controlled (read more in the NY Daily News).
Later on, in the afternoon, two people died in blaze that destroyed a house in the Rockaways in Queens, NYC. According to the NYFD, the house was very cluttered making it difficult for firefighters to reach the kitchen where the two victims were located.
Motor vehicle accidents continue to rise in New York City. A comparison of data on a trimester basis shows that the number of vehicle accidents during the second trimester of 2015 was the highest of any trimester over the last 3 years.
However, even though the total number of vehicle accidents is increasing, the number of personal injuries has been slowly decreasing over the last 3 years during the first and the second trimester of each year. The number of deaths related to traffic accidents followed the same trend for the first trimester of this year and was at the lowest of the last 3 years but the situation changed for the April to June trimester during which 67 people died in traffic accidents compared to 59 for the same period of 2014 and 52 for 2013. For the last 3 years the number of traffic accident deaths has been slowly increasing every year during the second trimester of the year.
31 pedestrians died in traffic accidents in New York during the second trimester of 2015 compared to 29 during the same period of 2014 and 28 during the same period of 2013. During the month of May only, 17 pedestrians were killed by motorists. This is the highest monthly number of pedestrian deaths since December 2013 and since the launch of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero program.
Our managing partner Ben Rubinowitz will be speaking at the San Antonio Trial Lawyer Association “Real World Annual CLE Seminar – Trial Techinques, Approaches and Jury Persuasion” on Friday September 11th at the Wyndham Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio.
Ben’s successes as a trial lawyer and expertise in his field have earned him national recognition as a trial advocacy teacher both to attorneys and to law students. Mr. Rubinowitz has lectured, chaired, and participated in seminars and programs at Harvard, Yale, Emory, Fordham, Hofstra, St. John’s, Pace and Cardozo law schools, as well as more than 100 continuing legal education programs throughout the country and internationally.
In San Antonio the subject of his presentation will be “Effective Cross Examination : The Anger Factor”.
This is in recognition of his history of helping people injured by the negligence and carelessness of others.
Throughout his career, New York Product Liability Lawyer Ben Rubinowitz has made his mark as a leading trial lawyer combining hard work and dedication with his remarkable courtroom skills and presence. In 2013 Ben was voted ” Best Lawyers, Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiff’s ‘Lawyer of the Year’ New York City Area.” Mr. Rubinowitz began his career as a prosecutor, where he honed the trial skills that would become his hallmark. From there, he began serving as a trial lawyer representing severely injured plaintiffs in personal injury cases, eventually joining Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf in 1989. For the past 13 years Mr. Rubinowitz was featured in New York Magazines’ article on “Best Lawyers in New York” and was one of ten GGCSMB&R attorneys who were listed in “The Best Lawyers in America”. For the past 9 years Ben has been recognized in the New York Times as one of the “Top 100” lawyers in the New York Metro area, as evaluated by New York Super Lawyers. Ben was honored by being elected to be a member of the prestigious Inner Circle of Advocates. The Inner Circle of Advocates is limited to 100 members considered among the best plaintiffs attorneys in the United States and also to be “lawyers of excellent character and integrity.”
A nurse was charged with endangering a patient suffering from dementia after she was caught splashing water and hitting a nursing home resident during a bed bath. Mina Maxine Gayle-Campbell, a certified nurse aid at the Shore View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brooklyn, NYC was caught on camera last April when she physically abused the victim. Not only did she splash the 82 year old man in the face with water and hit him repeatedly but she also used the man’s own hand to hit himself. Read more in the NY Daily News
3 people from New York City were killed in a car accident Saturday afternoon on the Taconic State Parkway near Yorktown, NY. 8 others were injured including one who is still in critical condition. According to the police investigators, 33 year old Nerim Sinanovic from the Bronx, NYC, was driving north with his family, when he lost control of his BMW SUV, struck the grass embankment that separates the northbound lanes and the southbound lanes and went airborne. His vehicle landed in the southbound lanes, striking two other cars. A fourth car tried to avoid the accident and crashed into the center guard rail. The first car struck was driven by 63 year old Donald M. Mulvaney from Brooklyn who was riding with his wife 61 year old Ledell Mulvaney and his daughter , 31 year old Katherine Mulvaney. Both the wife and the daughter died in the accident while the father was transported to the hospital in critical conndition. Nerim Sinanovic’s 2 year old daughter, Leona Sinanovic who was riding in the back of the BMW SUV also died in the accident. Nerim, his wife 22 year old Blerta and his other daughter , 1 year old Lira were injured and transported to the hospital where they are being treated. They are in stable condition. The occupants of the other car invovled in the collision, Tara Duggins, 28, of Hampton, Virginia, and Sharne Sweeney, 27, of Shrub Oak were also injured. The two other occupants of the fourth car Jennifer Enriquez, 27, and passenger, Jason Lopez, 28, both of Peekskill, suffered minor injuries and have already been released from the hospital. Read more in the Putnam Daily Voice
Our managing partner, Ben Rubinowitz will be a speaker at the New York State Lawyer Association Seminar “Decisions 2015: Recent Developments in Tort Law
– NYC” that will take place in Manhattan on September 25 and 26. Ben will speak on the 26th. The following topics will be covered:
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