On September 9, 2016, Susan DeFlorio, then 58 years old, was injured while crossing the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Pennsylvania Avenue in Mineola when she was struck by a police vehicle owned by the County of Nassau and operated by one of its police officers.
In Ms. DeFlorio’s ensuing lawsuit, the jury determined that
On May 23, 2015, Paula Rendon tripped and fell on the sidewalk in front of the White Castle restaurant on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn.
Ms. Rendon, then 41 years old, sued both the premises owner and the tenant claiming that she fell and sustained ankle injuries because the sidewalk was uneven, cracked and unlevel. The
On October 4, 2014, Elizabeth Enriquez, then 63 years old, was injured when she tripped and fell walking down stairs at the Queens Borough Plaza subway station. She sued the city’s transit authority claiming that she fell because of a missing piece of hardware on the final step. The jury found that that the
On August18, 2012, Steven Pasternak was riding his motorcycle on a Chenango County road in the Town of Columbus when he lost control, was thrown off and sustained serious injuries.
Mr. Pasternak, then 27 years old, sued the county alleging that the roadway was in severe disrepair permeated with divots, potholes and dips that made
On May 4, 2016, David Borohov injured his ankle when he fell going down the exterior staircase of his apartment building in Fresh Meadows.
Mr. Borohov, then a 24 year old hairdresser, sued Queens Fresh Meadows, LLC, the owner of the building, claiming that his injuries occurred because the the steps were defective and there
On March 26, 2015, Salih Karasu, a 40 year old commercial roofing mechanic, was injured when he fell from a ladder about nine feet in the air, landing on and badly fracturing his ankle. He’d been working that day at Security Auto Sales in Amityville.
Mr. Karasu sued the owners
On June 4, 2013, New York City Taxi and Limousine Inspector Laurence Deguilme activated his vehicle’s emergency lights pulled over a taxicab on Third Avenue between 41st and 42nd Streets in Manhattan. After speaking to the taxicab’s operator and in the process of opening the driver’s side door of his TLC vehicle in order to
On July 27, 2011, Renee Thompson slipped and fell down an interior staircase at 715 East 182nd Street in Bronx County while on her way to visit a resident in the basement apartment there. Ms. Thompson, a 42 year old salesperson, sued the property owner and manager alleging that she slipped on a trash bag
On August 26, 2016, Vincent Madia was injured in a collision between his motorcycle and a taxi at the intersection of Fish and Waring Avenues in the Bronx.
In the ensuing trial, the jury awarded pain and suffering damages in the sum of $5,000 (past only – three years). In her post-trial decision on plaintiff’s
On March 4, 2013, Jose Flores was riding his bicycle down Second Avenue just south of 76th Street in Manhattan when he was struck by a large city bus.
Mr. Flores, then 37 years old, fell to the ground and could