In 2013, Mario Mujica, then 29 years old, was erroneously released prematurely from prison after serving all but a week of a negotiated plea agreement to serve six months for a drug offense. On October 28, 2013, he voluntarily surrendered himself and was taken to the Nassau County Correctional Facility.
After he’d been processed on
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 October 19, 2005, Louis Demetro was employed as a stationary engineer by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation in the newly constructed boiler room of Jacobi Medical Center. During the course of his employment, Mr. Demetro, then 39 years old, was knocked to the ground and injured after being struck by a
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 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 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
On October 9, 2005, Michael Nutley, a 35 year old New York City police officer on duty, slipped and fell on a New York City Transit Authority subway stairway at the 111th Street and Greenwood Avenue station in Queens.
Officer Nutley injured his dominant right hand and wrist and sued the NYCTA claiming that
There was no question as to liability – 54 year old Bill Bouzas slipped and fell on a wet floor at a New York City restaurant on February 1, 2007 and the jury found it was all the fault of the defendant. After a one week trial ending May 7, 2009, though, the same