On June 10, 2000, then six year old Erica Carrasquilla slipped and fell while climbing up a wet ladder on a playground slide at New York City’s Van Voorhees Park in Brooklyn. She sustained a supraondylar fracture of her dominant left arm’s elbow requiring closed reduction under anesthesia with the placement of percutaneous pins. Erica… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Elbow Injuries
Subscribe to Elbow Injuries RSS FeedElbow Fracture Case Settles for $1,650,000 under High-Low Agreement after Verdict for $4,370,000
Posted in Elbow InjuriesRey Espinal was a healthy, active 36 year old laborer on June 8, 2005 when he was working at a warehouse in the Bronx installing a tall rolling door gate. He fell off a ladder about 14 feet to the ground below. It’s dangerous to be working up on a ladder: Mr. Espinal was… Continue Reading
Girl with Fractured Femur from Construction Site Accident Wins New Damages Trial due to Jury’s Inconsistent Pain and Suffering Awards ($100,000 for Future, Zero for Past)
Posted in Elbow Injuries, Leg InjuriesOn September 1, 2000 Jennifer Arietta was struck by an eight foot piece of plywood accidentally dropped from the third floor window at 513 Beekman Avenue in the Bronx. The plank was being used as a window cover by contractors renovating the building and ten year old Jennifer just happened to be walking on the… Continue Reading
Another $1,000,000 Elbow Fracture Verdict Sustained on Appeal in New York
Posted in Elbow InjuriesKerwin Park was a 36 year old day laborer doing construction work on a residential building in Manhattan on September 7, 2000 when a wooden plank he’d been standing on collapsed and sent him tumbling 20 feet to the unfinished basement below. Here’s what it looked like before Mr. Park fell: Park was rushed to the hospital where he… Continue Reading
Recent Elbow Fracture Pain and Suffering Verdicts in New York in Excess of $1,000,000
Posted in Elbow InjuriesThe elbow is really not a bone, it’s a joint of the upper extremity (the arm) where the humerus meets, or articulates, with the radius and ulna. As you can see, there’s no "elbow" bone. So when we hear of elbow fractures (and even doctors will use that term), what we’re most likely talking… Continue Reading