On April 18, 2008 Pamela Blechman was on her way to a meeting for her employer, a charitable fund, when she boarded a crowded uptown subway train at the 14th Street-Union Square station in Manhattan. After she stepped from the platform into the subway car, Ms. Blechman was jostled backwards and fell into a foot-wide
Ankle Injuries
Verdict Affirmed in Favor of Child Hit by Car While She Was Crossing Street
Michele Daniel was eight years old on June 11, 2005 when she tried to cross MacDonough Street in Brooklyn and was struck by a car sustaining serious leg injuries. Her mother, Marilyn Davis, sued the driver and owner and on May 20, 2013, a Kings County jury apportioned liability 65% to the driver and …
Trip and Fall Verdict for Non-Surgical Orthopedic Injuries Affirmed
On December 24, 2007, at about 5 p.m., Anabell Rivera was on her way to her twin sister’s home in Jersey City to celebrate Christmas and their 50th birthdays.
As Ms. Rivera was walking down a staircase at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, she tripped and fell sustaining injuries to her right wrist…
Ankle Injury Verdict Upheld on Appeal
Court Affirms Both Pain and Suffering and Loss of Enjoyment of Life Awards
On March 10, 2008, Cassandra Grace was heading toward the turnstiles at the Third Avenue-149th Street subway station in the Bronx. After descending a flight of stairs, her foot was caught by a depression in cracked tiles on the floor causing her to trip and fall.
Ms. Grace, then a 46 year old dance instructor…
Appeals Court Affirms Significant Verdict for Pain and Suffering in Ankle Injury Case
On August 11, 2008, Fredy Figueroa was employed as a sprinkler system installer in connection with a $350,000 landscaping project in the backyard of a home in Nissequougue (Suffolk County). Fredy was excavating a two foot trench when the retaining wall next to it collapsed and pinned him inside the trench for 10 minutes, requiring…
Ankle Injury Pain and Suffering Verdict Reduced on Appeal
Lidy Telsaint was 21 years old on March 21, 2007, having arrived in the U.S. from Haiti just six months earlier in order to rejoin her family here. At 8 a.m. that morning, she was on her way to English language school when she slipped and fell on ice that had formed on the sidewalk…
Appellate Courts Affirm Damages Awards in Two Ankle Injury Cases but Require New Trials on Issues of Liability
Antoinette Harrison, a 22 year old recent immigrant from Liberia, Africa, was on her way to the first day of classes at a nursing school in Brooklyn on January 18, 2005 when she slipped and fell on ice on the platform of an elevated subway station in the Bronx.
She never made it …
Federal Court Orders Increase in Damages in Ankle and Wrist Injury Case
On May 18, 2007, at about 10:30 p.m., Oliver Tookes, a 57 year old off-duty gardener employed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, returned to his workplace at the Bayonne Bridge tollhouse building in Staten Island where, the day before, he’d inadvertently left his car keys. Unfortunately neither he nor anyone…
Court Orders Substantial Increase in Pain and Suffering Damages for Construction Project Manager’s Ankle Injury
On March 2, 2009, Mark Grinberg was a project manager for URS Corporation working at a construction site when he slipped and fell on a piece of plywood that was covered plastic.
The accident took place at the Central Park Police Station then under renovation:
A contractor, C&L Contracting Corp., had placed plastic covered…