On July 29, 2011, Janet Kopolovitch was helping her son move out of his apartment when she slipped and fell on a wet cement floor of the loading dock at 200 Water Street in Manhattan.
In her ensuing lawsuit against the owner and managing agent of the building, Ms. Kopolovitch, then 53 years old, claimed
On September 15, 2009, Adelina Reyes was injured when she tripped and fell due to a defective subway grating on the sidewalk at 138th Street near Willis Avenue in the Bronx.
The transit authority conceded liability and a lawsuit by the 53 year old Ms. Reyes
Pedro Acosta was 28 years old on April 16, 1999 and asleep in his second floor apartment in Brooklyn, New York when at about 11 p.m. four men banged on his door. He ran out the back – through a rear window, onto a roof, down to the street and up onto another roof.
Judicial decisions in several recent cases demonstrate the wide range of possible outcomes for pain and suffering awards in knee injury cases.
We last visited this topic when discussing the New York City police officer who shot himself in the knee and convinced a jury not only that the city was at fault but also
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