On January 2, 2014, a teacher at a high school in Manhattan performed a demonstration for a tenth-grade chemistry class intending to show her students how various nitrates, when lit, caused flames to appear in different colors. The demonstration – known as “The Rainbow Experiment” – went horribly awry when a giant fireball erupted and
$175,000 Pain and Suffering Award Reduced by Appeals Court to $140,000 for Leg Injuries Requiring Skin Graft; New Trial Ordered to Assess Plaintiff’s Comparative Negligence in Rail Road Platform Gap Fall
On June 14, 2006, at about 3:30 p.m., then 72 year old Irene McDonald attempted to board a train at the New Hyde Park Long Island Rail Road (the LIRR) station when she fell through a 12 inch gap between the train station platform and the train door.
Here is the LIRR train station where
Bicyclist Sustains Fractures of Both Legs when Struck by Police Car; Appeals Court Upholds Trial Judge’s Increase to $750,000 for Pain and Suffering after Jury Awarded only $100,000
On August 15, 2004, then 20 year old Ervin Jordan was on his bicycle in Wyandanch, New York (Suffolk County) attempting to cross a road known as Straight Path at its intersection with State Avenue.
Jordan was peddling along, just like this fellow:
At the same time, and on State Avenue only a block away