On March 12, 2012, Saikou Sinera, then 29 years old, was injured in a construction related accident when he fell from the fourth step of a ladder while painting inside an apartment at 301 East 47th Street in Manhattan.
Mr. Sinera sued the property owner and building manager under the Labor Law and was granted
On December 13, 2014, Linda Miller was crossing the street on Broadway at its intersection with West 161st Street in Manhattan when she was struck by a van.
A jury found the van driver fully at fault and then awarded plaintiff damages in the total sum of $4,030,000 broken down as follows:
On June 10, 2005, Joseph Fratello was making a turn into a parking lot when a Suffolk County bus collided with his van on Montauk Avenue in Southampton .
Fratello, then 29 years old, sued the driver and the county claiming the bus driver’s negligence caused the accident and injuries to his hip and wris
On December 10, 2012, Adalberto Santiago was a 31 year old New York City police officer operating his patrol car when he received an emergency dispatch calling for assistance to a fellow officer. Officer Santiago activated his lights and sirens and took off. On his way to his fellow officer in need, Officer Santiago’s
On September 28, 2013, Elmi Mehmeti was driving his car on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway when it was struck in the rear by another vehicle and forced into the guardrail.
Mr. Mehmeti, then 34 years old, sued the other driver and owner. His motion for summary judgment as to liability was granted and the
On May 23, 2013, Jean Henriquez-Rodriguez fell from a wobbly ladder at an apartment building construction project at 1949 Adam Clayton Boulevard in Manhattan. He was employed by a contractor and had been reaching overhead to spread compound on an apartment ceiling.
Mr. Henriquez-Rodriguez, then
On November 3, 2014, Anna Brennan slipped and fell at a private home in Greenwood Lake. Ms. Brennan, a 66 year old part-time caretaker for the mother of one of the homeowners, sustained hip and wrist injuries when she finished work that day and began to descend an exterior stairway with leaves that covered the
On September 6, 2006, Pauline Barrett was attempting to exit the city bus she’d been on when her right heel got caught in a hole in the rear stairwell of the bus.
Barrett sued the transit authority claiming that she sustained serious injuries as a result of a dangerous stairwell defect that the defendant should
On June 3, 2005 Carlos Cano fell to the ground from the fourth rung of an unsecured ladder he was using to caulk the exterior walls of a gas station construction site in Cortlandt Manor.
Mr. Cano, then 33 years old, had been employed by the project’s
On September 15, 2011, Arvella Floyd was showering in the bathroom of her apartment in Brooklyn when the hot water knob and spindle fell and out of the shower wall onto her foot, causing hot water to come out at her “full blast.”
As a result, Ms. Floyd (then 61 years old) fell in the