On January 17, 2017, Carly Schollmeier tripped and fell while walking down a staircase at the Woodside Long island Railroad station in Queens.
In her ensuing lawsuit, Ms. Schollmeier, then 25 years old, claimed that the step on which she tripped was broken or corroded. The jury found that LIRR was negligent with respect to
On June 16, 2021, Elizabeth Taveras, then 47 years old, was walking on a sidewalk in the Bronx when she tripped and fell sustaining injuries to her hand.
In her ensuing lawsuit against the owner and tenant of the building abutting the sidewalk, defendants failed to answer the complaint, Ms. Tavarez was
On April 12, 2011, Galo Guaman was working at a construction site at One Whitehall Street in Manhattan, He was using a crowbar to remove a door frame when he was injured.
Mr. Guaman sued the budling owner and construction manager claiming that their
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 February 12, 2011, Ramon Hernandez, 66 years old, was injured when his right hand was crushed between two steel rollers of a dough flattening machine he operated while employed as a baker at a bakery in upper Manhattan.
The Site of Plaintiff’s Accident
Prior to the accident, there was a partial power outage in
On December 21, 2012, Terrence Cullen was driving his car on Wantagh Avenue in Hempstead when another vehicle drove through a stop sign on Sarah Drive and smashed into his car. Mr. Cullen, then 53 years old, sustained hand and knee injuries.
In the ensuing lawsuit, the other driver conceded full liability for the
On December 4, 2013, Martin Glynn was riding his bicycle on Batten Road in Croton-on-Hudson. When he entered the intersection to cross Yorktown Road his bicycle collided with the passenger side of a car. As a result, Glynn, then a 68 year old self-employed computer programmer, sustained a significant injury to his dominant hand
On October 1, 2012, Arianna Garcia was driving her car through an intersection in Middletown when she was struck by a car whose driver who failed to stop at a stop sign. Garcia, then 31 years old, was granted summary judgment as to liability and the matter proceeded to a trial on damages only.
On April 22, 2009, Evan Martin, a 13 year old eighth grade student, was injured at school in Port Jefferson after a teacher assigned him and another student the task of closing a sliding gate to the school parking lot. The gate was a large chain-link structure measuring about 16 feet wide and six feet
On March 26, 2010, Eladio Hernandez was hired for the day to level out the driveways and gas pump lanes at a gas station in South Ozone Park.
There was a large high pile of dirt that was to be removed and the 51 year old Mr. Hernandez was instructed to shovel it away while