Our partners Anthony H. Gair and Christopher L. Sallay settled the personal injury case of a 63 year old female pedestrian who was struck by a motor vehicle traveling in reverse on a one-way street. The case settled prior to trial for $2,050,000. As a result of the accident, the…
Ben B. Rubinowitz Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz The National Institute for Trial Advocacy will hold its Flagship Trial Techniques Program from July 25 to August 2, 2012 at the NITA Educational Center in Boulder Colorado. The National Program has been considered by many to be the…
Ben B. Rubinowitz Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz In recognition of his success in the Courtroom, our partner, Ben Rubinowitz, has once again been asked to Chair the prestigious Masters Program. This CLE program is designed to highlight cutting edge trial techniques that have resulted in justice…
The duck boat wrongful death case in Philadelphia goes to trial The family of an Anderson, South Carolina woman who was hit by a car last fall as she tried to cross Brown Road is suing the driver of the car and her parents for wrongful death. The owner of…
Ben B. Rubinowitz Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Ben Rubinowitz, a partner at Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf will be speaking at the Dutchess County Bar Association in New York State. Mr. Rubinowitz, who specializes in representing the victims of auto accidents, construction…
By Rhonda Kay, Partner, Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz In New York personal injury cases it has become routine for defendants to serve a notice for discovery and inspection of a plaintiff’s facebook page. Who doesn’t have a Facebook page these days? It’s the most popular way…
Our partner, Jeffrey Bloom, settled the personal injury case of a 16 year old boy, who suffered burns in an explosion. Jeffrey obtained Summary Judgment on liability which was affirmed by The Appellate Division, Second Department. The case settled following opening statements in Nassau County Supreme Court. The explosion occurred…
A judge has dismissed a personal injury lawsuit that 14 West Virginia families brought against DuPont over a former zinc smelting operation, saying they failed to produce evidence that toxins from the plant made them sick. A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary downplayed and hid risks associated with the antipsychotic drug…
Seventy-two ex-NFL football players sued the National Football League last week, accusing it of conspiring to keep data on head trauma research from them to influence collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Dr. Tammy Reynolds, an obstetrician who had her first child by C-section and her second vaginally, argues that doctors practice…
In what is being called the largest civil verdict in Pickens County history, a jury has awarded $2.4 million to a man whose wife died of complications from gynecological surgery. Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall about 700,000 vehicles because of a variety of safety issues. Chrysler Group also announced…