On August 15, 2014, at about 9 a.m., Jessie Jay Mosley fell down on the sidewalk upon exiting the Nunez Depot hardware store on Third Avenue in the Bronx. Passersby helped her up and into a bus across the street and the 70 year old Ms. Mosley went home and rested in bed for a… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Foot Injuries
Subscribe to Foot Injuries RSS FeedVerdict Affirmed in Trampoline Injury Lawsuit
Posted in Foot InjuriesIn May 2012, Judi DeMarco, then 49 years old, was a house guest at the Ballston Spa home of her brother Jeffrey DeMarco and his wife. Ben, their 10 year old son, begged his aunt Judi to jump with him on the trampoline in the side yard. She did so and was injured when, against safety… Continue Reading
Subway Tracks Accident – Jury’s Pain and Suffering Verdict Affirmed after Court of Appeals Addresses Liability Issues
Posted in Amputation Injuries, Foot InjuriesOn March 9, 2006, Robert Obey fell onto the tracks at a subway station in Manhattan. Shortly thereafter, a train ran over his left foot. Mr. Obey, then 51 years old, sued claiming that the transit authority’s conductor was negligent because he could have stopped the train in time to avoid the accident. The defense… Continue Reading
Appellate Court Modifies Pain and Suffering Damages Award in Steam Pipe Explosion Case
Posted in Foot Injuries, Leg InjuriesOn July 18, 2007 at about 5:20 p.m., Marjorie Kane was standing on the corner of 40th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, waiting to cross the street when she was suddenly catapulted into the air by an underground steam pipe explosion. The explosion created a crater 32 feet square and 16 feet deep and… Continue Reading
Appellate Court Reinstates Almost All of Trial Judge’s Reduction of Construction Worker’s Foot Injury Pain and Suffering Damages Verdict
Posted in Foot InjuriesOn August 3, 2011, Andrew Lombardi was injured while working as a carpenter on the sixth floor of an office building at 205 Hudson Street in Manhattan. Mr. Lombardi, then 41 years old, was employed by Centre Street Systems, Inc., one of several trades working for several weeks on the gut renovation of 30,000 square… Continue Reading
Substantial Pain and Suffering Verdict Affirmed for Boy Struck by Bus
Posted in Brain Injuries, Foot InjuriesOn December 18, 2009, then 12 year old Angel Ramos was struck by a city bus as he was attempting to cross Westchester Avenue between 163rd Street and Rogers Place in the Bronx. Angel had attended his usual after-school math tutoring class at Sylvan Learning Center and intended to meet up with his aunt and… Continue Reading
Appellate Court Reduces Foot Injury Pain and Suffering Award
Posted in Foot Injuries, Medical MalpracticeOn February 8, 2008, Carol Sokol underwent podiatric surgery for bunions on both of her feet. Her doctor, a podiatrist, performed an Austin bunionectomy, a surgical procedure to excise, or remove, a bunion (a bony overgrowth in the foot that causes the big toe to curve outward). Here is a short video showing an Austin bunionectomy… Continue Reading
Court Affirms Modest Award for Construction Worker’s Foot and Ankle Injuries
Posted in Ankle Injuries, Foot InjuriesJames Ciuffo had been working as a laborer for a couple of years for Mowery Construction Company in the Lake George region. He was in excellent physical shape and was a top flight amateur golfer with dreams of becoming a club pro. On March 15, 2005, though, while working at a job site, scaffolding collapsed… Continue Reading
Court Affirms Pain and Suffering Award for Foot Injury
Posted in Foot InjuriesPatricia Ynoa, a 30 year old home health aide, was on her way home from a patient’s house on March 25, 2004. She’d taken the subway and was about to exit from the station at 167th Street in the Bronx when her right foot became caught in a broken high exit turnstile. Here is an… Continue Reading
Malpractice Lawsuit against New York Podiatrist Results in $3,000,000 Pain and Suffering Verdict for College Student; Trial Judge Orders Reduction to $1,000,000
Posted in Ankle Injuries, Foot Injuries, Medical MalpracticeOn July 29, 2002, then 16 year old Jennifer Gillette underwent a procedure by podiatrist Greg Atlas in which a wart was removed from the side of her left heel. Complications developed, she was forced to undergo five new surgeries and Jennifer ended up suing Dr. Atlas claiming that he negligently performed the procedure and… Continue Reading
Different Juries Rule on Same Case with Same Injuries – 1st Jury Awards $575,000 for Pain and Suffering, 2nd Jury only $22,000. Why?
Posted in FAQs - Juries, Foot Injuries, Surprising Damage VerdictsIn a case involving a pedestrian struck by a bus, there were two trials with two different juries. The plaintiff sustained elbow and foot fractures and in the first case her pain and suffering verdict was $575,000 but in the second case a new jury reduced that sum to $22,000! It all began at 6… Continue Reading
26 Bones in the Foot – Recent Foot Fracture Verdicts Range from $75,000 to $2,200,000
Posted in Foot InjuriesThere are 26 bones in the foot. So the variety of foot injuries is huge – from crush and calacaneous fractures to a 5th metatarsal (little toe) fracture. And thus the range for verdicts and settlements for pain and suffering in foot injury cases is quite wide. In a recent case, Lentini v. NYC Transit Authority… Continue Reading