On June 23, 2014, Carrielee Strother-Ross, aged 34, slipped and fell on an interior stairway of a Burger King restaurant located in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. She injured her knee. Five days later, Ms. Strother-Ross suffered a fatal pulmonary
On December 1, 2013, a Hudson Line commuter train operated by the Metro-North Railroad derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx. Our client, Eddie Russell, was a passenger aboard the train at the time of the crash. Russell,
When an accident happens, an individual’s life can be turned upside down in the blink of an eye. Take, for example, the case of Rose Nudelman, a photographer and multi-media artist who was dependent on her
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A 44-year-old electrician, who was married and the father of two young children, was hit by an MTA bus while fixing the electrical and signal location under the LIRR. He was suspended above the
Our client, a New York City police detective and father of two children, suffered injuries to his back while responding to a crane collapse as part of the emergency response unit. His role was to rescue workers by removing debris
Our client is a relative of a now-deceased 50-year-old woman. This woman was cooking rice on her stove while wearing a robe, when her sleeve caught fire and the poor design and material of the robe caused a “chimney effect,”
We represented a 40 year old man who was paralyzed for two months as a result of falling over a cement wheel stop at a local baseball stadium. Our client attended a nighttime baseball game with a friend. They
Our client, a 35-year-old male was working out with a trainer at an Equinox gym. The trainer is supposed to be watching the exercises, correcting, and have his hands beneath free weights in case they fall or are otherwise problematic.
Our client, a child, was injured when he did a flip off of a jungle gym at an elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. The claim is that the child was not adequately supervised and was allowed to do front and
Our client, a two-year-old toddler, was in a bedroom at her grandmother’s apartment in Yonkers, NY, when she screamed. Her mother saw her hands were red, and washed them. The next day, the toddler’s hands had blisters on them, and
