December 2008

When a Bronx County, New York jury recently returned a verdict that failed to award any  future pain and suffering damages in a traumatic brain injury case (in which the jury verdict was $100,000 for six years of past pain and suffering (i.e., from the date of the incident to the date of the verdict)

Ouch! Bullet in the knee. But in Alexander v. City of New York a cop shot himself!

When Detective Anderson Alexander leaned back in a chair at his Brooklyn, New York precinct house, it didn’t hold his weight and he stumbled out of the defective chair and his gun accidentally discharged. He sued the city for the defective