On September 20, 2018, Lisa Lubarsky, then 52 years old, sustained a serious leg injury when she was riding her bicycle in a Staten Island park, training for the Ironman World Championship Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii in three weeks.
After leisurely circling the flat, asphalt 1.5 mile path about 20 times, Ms. Lubarsky came around
On July 20, 2012, Willan Aguilar was employed by a subcontractor as a laborer performing demolition work at a construction site in Brooklyn when he fell from a metal beam 15 feet onto the ground below. Mr. Aguilar, then 34 years old, sued the owner and general contractor under the Labor Law and was
On October 13, 2013, Jesús Moctezuma was injured when he was driving his bicycle on St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan and the driver of a double-parked car opened his driver’s side door as Mr. Moctezuma was passing by. The car door knocked him to the ground; seconds later the rear wheels of a city
On March 2, 2005, Jeremy Killenberger was a rear seat passenger in a car being driven by Kevin Miller on State Route 7 in Princetown, Schenectady County. Mr. Miller lost control of his vehicle as a result of snow and ice conditions, causing it to cross over the center lane and crash into the path
On January 21, 2012, Matthew Meyers was unloading items from the trunk of a livery vehicle double parked along the curb on 11th Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets in Manhattan when the driver of another vehicle drove her car into him, pinning him between the two cars. Mr. Meyers, then a 36 year
On July 29, 2011, Janet Kopolovitch was helping her son move out of his apartment when she slipped and fell on a wet cement floor of the loading dock at 200 Water Street in Manhattan.
In her ensuing lawsuit against the owner and managing agent of the building, Ms. Kopolovitch, then 53 years old, claimed
On December 19, 2010, Jonathan Muniz injured his leg when he tripped and fell on a raised area in the kitchen floor of his apartment at 1755 Jarvis Avenue in the Bronx. He sued the owner and manager of the building alleging they were liable for the accident because he had for years before complained
On February 18, 2013, Judy Zhou, then a nine-year-old novice skier, was injured while skiing at the Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center in Tuxedo. On her first run of the day, Judy took the chairlift to the top of the bunny slope, a beginner’s hill. On her way down, she crashed into a white PVC pole
On September 13, 2012, just before noon, Elaine Golimowski was walking across the street at an intersection in Cheektowaga when she was struck by a left turning unmarked town police vehicle. Ms. Golimowski, then 69 years old and retired, was propelled onto the car and then to the ground. She sustained several injuries and
On 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.
A woman walking past the scene of the