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
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Hand Injury Pain and Suffering Award Affirmed
By John Hochfelder on
Posted in Hand Injuries
On June 11, 2008, Rose Walker was headed home on a subway train in Brooklyn after her night shift as a nurse’s aide at a Manhattan hospital. She noticed a young girl alone and crying who had been separated from her brothers on the way to school. Ms. Walker helped the child find the train’s…
Court Slashes Verdict for Teenager’s Hand Injury
By John Hochfelder on
Posted in Amputation Injuries, Hand Injuries
Dean Robinson was playing in a pick-up basketball game at P.S. 89 in the Bronx on May 5, 2006. The 14 year old made a clap lay-up (a show-off move in which one releases the ball towards the basket and simultaneously claps or slaps the backboard with his shooting hand). That was likely the …