On January 13, 2006 at about 1 p.m., Mohammed Kayes, then 44 years old, was walking with his three year old daughter on the sidewalk adjacent to Queens Boulevard near 34th Street in Long Island City. Suddenly, a transit authority truck backed up and pushed over a 40 pound stop sign and pole that then… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Neck Injuries
Subscribe to Neck Injuries RSS FeedAnother Significant Verdict Affirmed for Non-Surgical Spinal Injuries
Posted in Back Injuries, Neck InjuriesOn November 23, 2003, at about 8 p.m., Alicia Rutledge was boarding a city bus at the corner of 125th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. She claimed that the bus driver closed the doors on her when she was on the first step. Her arms were pinned by the doors of the suddenly moving… Continue Reading
Bulging Discs Verdict Reduced on Appeal
Posted in Neck InjuriesOn January 10, 2001, Ludnila Sulich was stopped at a red light on Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx when her car was struck by a city bus. Her head hit the left side window in her car resulting in significant neck pain. When the 43 year old Ms. Sulich got out of her car the… Continue Reading
Verdict Affirmed for Non-Surgical Spinal Injuries
Posted in Back Injuries, Neck InjuriesOn June 15, 2006, at about 2:30 p.m., Cornelius James was walking on the sidewalk at West 66th Street between West End and Amsterdam Avenues in Manhattan. Two cars collided and one car mounted the sidewalk and struck the pedestrian. Mr. James, a 31 year old attendant at a blood bank, was thrown eight… Continue Reading
Court Orders Substantial Reduction in Pain and Suffering Damages in Severe Orthopedic and Brain Injury Trauma Case
Posted in Back Injuries, Brain Injuries, Leg Injuries, Neck Injuries, Wrist InjuriesA 26 year old restaurant deliveryman was was bicycling in the Bedford-Stuyversant section of Brooklyn on June 4, 2005, on his way to make a food delivery from King’s Men Restaurant, when a car struck him from behind. Jing Xue Jiang flew through the air and the next thing he remembered was waking up at… Continue Reading
Spinal Injuries from Kidney Donor Surgery Result in Significant Pain and Suffering Award
Posted in Back Injuries, Medical Malpractice, Neck InjuriesOn March 23, 2005, Darnell Backus underwent a donor nephrectomy – (surgery in which a healthy kidney is removed to be transplanted in another person). He did this for his mother who had been suffering from kidney failure and would otherwise have required a lifetime of dialysis. Left side lateral decubitus position for kidney donor… Continue Reading
Neck and Back Injuries Result in $1,800,000 Pain and Suffering Award Approved by Appellate Court, Despite Lack of Surgery
Posted in Back Injuries, Neck InjuriesOn July 28, 2005, James Coleman was working as a subway track worker repairing tracks for the New York City Transit Authority (the TA). He was on a hydraulic lift platform that collapsed causing him to fall 25 feet to the ground below. Workers on a hydraulic lift: Coleman sued the TA for the… Continue Reading
$4,700,000 Affirmed as Reasonable for Pain and Suffering in Neck and Back Injury Slip and Fall Case
Posted in Back Injuries, Neck InjuriesOn September 21, 1998,at about 12:30 p.m., Shelton Stewart took the subway train from his job in Manhattan to his home in the Bronx. He got out at the Gun Hill Station and began walking down the subway stairways to the street. Stewart slipped and fell on what he later claimed was pigeon excrement. Pigeons… Continue Reading
Neck Injury and RSD from Electrical Shock – $2,500 Pain and Suffering Verdict Affirmed on Appeal
Posted in Neck InjuriesOn December 13, 1999, then 40 year old Terry Olmstead was employed as a shift manager by Pizza Hut of America, Inc.’s franchisee in Chittenango, New York (near Syracuse). While working in the kitchen near a metal work table, Ms. Olmstead received a severe electrical shock when she touched the table surface. Treated at an… Continue Reading
Appellate Court Reverses Jury’s $465,000 Pain and Suffering Veridct and Dismisses Complaint – No Evidence of Recent Medical Examination in Neck, Back and Shoulder Injury Car Accident Case
Posted in Back Injuries, Neck Injuries, Shoulder InjuriesThe defendants admitted that they caused the car accident on August 9, 2005 when Fred Nesci’s car was totaled after it was rear ended by their SUV. Rear end collision damage: Fred and his passenger (his wife Valerie) claimed serious injuries but the defense insisted on a damages trial arguing that the injuries were not… Continue Reading
Jury Awards $7,000,000 in Cervical Fusion Case – Judge Denies Defendants’ Post-Trial Motion to Set Aside $5,000,000 Portion of the Verdict for Pain and Suffering
Posted in Neck InjuriesOn December 26, 2003, a 37 year old nurse was involved in a car accident at an intersection in the Bronx when a Salvation Army van slammed into her car causing a herniated disc in her neck andnerve damage to her right arm. It wasn’t this van but probably one similar: The van driver, Anita Peterson, claimed she had… Continue Reading
Neck Injury Verdict for $175,000 Affirmed on Appeal in Pedestrian Knockdown Lawsuit where Jury Awarded $120,000 for Future Medical Expenses but Nothing for Future Pain and Suffering
Posted in Law of Damages, Neck InjuriesOn November 20, 2001, Yuko Yamamoto, a 37 year old registered nurse, was walking to work in Manhattan when she was struck and knocked to the ground by a taxicab. In her lawsuit to recover pain and suffering damages for her resulting neck injury, a judge determined that no trial would be needed on the issue… Continue Reading
Opposite Results in Two New York Neck and Back Injury Cases: When and How are Future Pain and Suffering Verdicts Upheld?
Posted in Back Injuries, Neck InjuriesThe concept of verdicts for future pain and suffering in injury cases is pretty simple: juries are told that if they believe the evidence shows a plaintiff’s injuries or disabilities will continue after the date the verdict is rendered, then the jury must award a reasonable sum of money for the plaintiff’s future pain and… Continue Reading
Jury’s Refusal to Award Any Future Pain and Suffering Damages Reversed on Appeal in New York Car Crash Lawsuit
Posted in Back Injuries, Neck Injuries, Surprising Damage VerdictsWhen a defendant has been found liable causing for a car accident and the jury verdict includes amounts for past pain and suffering and future medical expenses but nothing at all for future pain and suffering, a new trial is required under New York law. On August 22, 1996 Lindsay Grobman, then 17 years old,… Continue Reading
Inside Story of Lawsuit over Catastrophic Injuries at Construction Site – Did Attorney’s Rejection of Settlement Offer Cost His Client $7,000,000?
Posted in Eye and Vision Injuries, Leg Injuries, Loss of Consortium Damages, Neck Injuries, Wrist InjuriesA 35 year old healthy construction worker was helping to build a new Lowe’s Home Depot in Orangeburg (Ulster County), New York on November 14, 2002 when he fell off the roof 22 feet striking his head on the ground below. After 63 days in the hospital (57 of them in a coma), 11 surgeries… Continue Reading
Unusual Sports Related Injury Case Plaintiffs Failing to Win Damages
Posted in Assumption of the Risk, Knee Injuries, Neck InjuriesIn several unusual sports related cases around the country recently, injured plaintiffs have failed to win any damages. If we count "slam dancing" as a sport then the score is no wins, two losses and two ties (to be broken by trials down the road). Loss #1: In Fry v. Jolly Roger Rides, Inc. a… Continue Reading
Paralyzed from Diving Accident, Jury Awards $76 Million – Will Verdict be Upheld or Paid?
Posted in Neck Injuries, ParalysisAs reported by Walter Olson at Overlawyered, a 20 year old Merritt Island, Florida man just won a $76,000,000 jury verdict for damages he suffered as a result of a diving accident in which he broke his neck on the bottom of a shallow river. The pain and suffering component was $52,800,000. He is now… Continue Reading