The plaintiff, a 72 year-old legal secretary slipped off of a broken sewer grate cover at night fracturing the elbow to her non-dominant arm and requiring surgery. Documents and witnesses proved that this condition had existed for a long period of time but had gone unrepaired. Suit was brought in Supreme Court, Queens County against The City of New York and the abutting landowner and before jury selection it was settled for $150,000.
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$150,000 Excessive Force by Police
Written by admin on September 19, 2013
49 year old plumber was stopped by police while en route to a customer and was given two traffic summonses. After receiving the tickets, some additional words were exchanged and the plumber called one of the officers a “pathological prevaricator”. According to the plumber and his wife, who was in the vehicle, this enraged the officer who then began to choke the man. Eventually, a police lieutenant persuaded the man to get out of his van and the lieutenant tasered him in the chest, causing him to fall backwards and to sustain a laceration to the back of his head. My client was charged with various crimes and after a criminal trial, he was found not guilty of all charges except guilty of disorderly conduct. We sued the City for the use of excessive force and for civil rights violations. After receiving a “final offer” from the City in the amount of $20,000, we prepared the case for trial, at which point the case was settled for $150,000.
$235,000 Fractured Ankle on Ice
Written by Michael Eidman on September 19, 2013
After a small snowfall, a 68 year-old man was attempting to get from a public sidewalk into the roadway so that he could cross mid-block. Instead of walking along the shoveled path in the middle of the sidewalk in order to reach the crosswalk, he left the shoveled path and walked onto the unshoveled part of the sidewalk that abutted the curb. He slipped while trying to reach the roadway, fracturing his ankle and requiring surgery. The case was settled before trial for $235,000.
$250,000 Unbelted Passenger
Written by Michael Eidman on September 19, 2013
A New Jersey man was a passenger in his friend’s car but unfortunately failed to wear his seat-belt. The car was involved in a sideswipe collision with an uninsured vehicle and the passenger was thrown through the windshield, fracturing his nose and injuring his knee. He required multiple surgeries to his nose and arthroscopic surgery to his knee. The friend’s car carried $250,000 in insurance and the case settled for the full amount of the policy.
$350,000 Single Car Collision
Written by admin on September 19, 2013
Our client was a 17 year old high school student who was a rear-seat passenger in a car which failed to successfully negotiate a turn and collided with a tree. As a result, our client suffered a fractured leg requiring surgeries for insertion of steel rod and repair of rod. We recovered the full $100,000 limits of the insurance policy of the owner/operator of the car in which our client was riding. In addition, after an arbitration hearing, we collected the $250,000 underinsurance policy coverage from a policy owned by our client’s father.