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Traumatic Brain Injury Jury Awards Reinstated on Appeal after Substantial...
On November 7, 2013, Paige Mecca, a 43 year old owner of a small solar energy company, was struck in the head and neck by a large 40 pound tray of dishes and food dropped by a waitress who lost her...
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Appellate Court Addresses Issues in Peritoneal Mesothelioma Death Case
On November 12, 2012, Florence Nemeth, then 67 years old, was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma, a tumor of mesothelia cells in the abdomen. She died from the disease on March 5, 2016, before a...
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Courts Slash Mesothelioma Pain and Suffering Awards
In November, 2012, then 64 year old Marlena Robaey was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma. She then sued several companies alleging that she’d contracted mesothelioma from her exposure over many...
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Large Awards in Case of Woman Struck by Shopping Cart Thrown from Fourth...
On October 31, 2011, Marion Hedges went to a shopping center at East 117th Street in Manhattan with her 13 year old son. After they left a store, they walked to a parking garage station, when she was...
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Catastrophic Injury Awards Affirmed for Worker in Roadway Accident
On October 24, 2008 Robert Loja was working for a landscaping firm in Sleepy Hollow. Just after parking his employer’s truck on Benedict Avenue and unloading his lawn mowing equipment from his truck’s...
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Above-Knee Amputation Verdict Affirmed in Medical Malpractice Case
On October 10, 2004, Donald Schultz twisted his ankle walking up the stairs at work (he was a 36 year old police dispatcher for the City of Tonawanda) and sustained a simple, non-displaced ankle...
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City and Construction Company Liable for Substantial Injuries in Car Crash...
On May 20, 2006 at about 3 a.m., a five-car pile-up occurred on the West Side Highway near 79th Street in Manhattan. Initially, a taxi was rear-ended and caused to strike the car in front of him. While...
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Loss of Consortium Award Cut in Mesothelioma Case
For about eight months from 1964 to 1965, Harry Brown was exposed to asbestos while he worked as an insulator at Ravenswood 3, a newly constructed Con Edison powerhouse in Long Island City in Queens....
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Significant Award for Future Medical Expenses Affirmed despite Modest Awards...
On August 7, 2010, Anil Sehgal was preparing to stop at a red light at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 57th Street in Manhattan when his car was struck from behind by another vehicle. Mr....
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Large Pain and Suffering Award Affirmed in Leg Injury Case
On January 21, 2012, Matthew Meyers was unloading items from the trunk of a livery vehicle double parked along the curb on 11th Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets in Manhattan when the driver of...
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