On February 21, 2010, Paul Chicoine was admitted to a hospital emergency room in Bethpage with complaints of dizziness and vomiting. He was examined by a triage nurse and a physician, diagnosed with vertigo, dehydration and sinusitis and discharged.
About a week later, Mr. Chicoine, then 47 years old, sustained a stroke. He
On March 27, 2015, Earl Lind was working for an electrical subcontractor at the World Trade Center vehicle security center new construction site. Mr. Lind, then 45 years old, was in the bucket of an articulating lift when he was injured after it slid down a ramp and crashed.
WTC Vehicle Center
In his ensuing
On March 29, 2004, Bethany Mongeau was a passenger in a taxi cab in Manhattan when it was rear-ended by another vehicle (also a taxi cab) and she was injured.
Ms. Mongeau, then 30 years old, sued both drivers claiming that she sustained cervical spine injuries and a significant loss of earnings. Her motion for
On November 27, 2018, at 3 a.m., then 41 year old William Lee, fell in his bathroom at home in Elmsford. His wife Anna heard the thud, ran to the bathroom and found her husband convulsing on the floor. She called 911. When the ambulance arrived, EMS suspected a stroke and Mr. Lee was rushed
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 3, 2012, a New Rochelle police officer drove his official vehicle into the rear of another vehicle. Edward Carter, a passenger in the other vehicle, sued both drivers for his personal injuries. A Westchester jury ruled that both drivers were at fault.
In a separate damages only trial, the jury determined that
On April 14, 2009, Robert McCullough was working as an ironworker at the One Bryant Park, Manhattan construction site when he tripped and fell after stepping into an uncovered drain hole. He claimed serious ankle injuries and sued the owner and general contractor claiming that their violations of the Labor Law caused his injuries.
On August 26, 2012, Robert Finney was riding his motorcycle on a state road in Schuyler County. At the same time, Christopher Morton was driving his pickup truck two car lengths behind at the posted speed limit of 55 miles per hour. Tragically, Mr. Finney sustained fatal injuries when his motorcycle was struck by
On February 6, 2014, David Flowers was working at a construction site in Buffalo when he was struck by a load of falling steel rebar causing injuries to his shoulder.
In his ensuing lawsuit, the 34 year old ironworker plaintiff was granted summary judgment on his Labor Law 240(1) claim against the project owner and