A California resident traveling board the Holland America Line’s Rotterdam cruise ship sues the company for negligence. Jury selection is under way in a multimillion-dollar medical malpractice lawsuit against Indian River Medical Center, having to do with an infant born dead to a St. Lucie County couple in 2008 who…
A jury recently found in favor of a plaintiff in a malpractice lawsuit, and awarded him and his wife a record-breaking $9 million in damages after the doctor failed to order a X-rays or a computed tomography (CT) scan of the plaintiff’s neck. A woman injured in a wreck by…
As the death toll from the Costa Concordia accident rises to 16, cruise Ship owners blame human error. Meanwhile, a key House committee said Wednesday that it would hold a hearing to look into the safety of the cruise ship industry. Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $158 million to…
Ben B. Rubinowitz Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Our partner, Ben Rubinowitz, achieved one of the highest awards for an 83 year old man who suffered a fractured leg as a result of being struck by a car: $1,120,000.00. The injured man was an 83 year old…
In the recent New York personal injury case of Sterling v. May, the Honorable George Silver of the Supreme Court, New York County, denied defendant’s demand for an authorization for plaintiff’s Facebook account, noting that to allow defendants to gain such access based solely upon the fact that plaintiff acknowledged…
A Washtenaw County Circuit Court jury awarded a teacher $2.5 million in a medical malpractice verdict, after suffering permanent injury during a procedure at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Amy Garcia suffered a miscarriage in 2007 causing the death of her 14-week-old fetus and as a result required a dilation and…
In personal injury cases in New York the defense of an intervening act as a superseding cause of plaintiff’s injury will often be raised to absolve defendant’s negligence as a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury. From the plaintiff’s perspective it should be argued that questions of causation are in most…
Doctor named in wrongful death suit (Northern Virginia Daily) 60-year-old woman pleads to drunk driving crash that hit a family of pedestrians (The Grand Rapids Press, MI) Diver’s Lawsuit Alleges Work-Related Collapsed Lung Injuries (U.S. Dist. Ct. LA W.D.) Hallmark Sued for House Fire Linked to Snow Globe (AP) Woman…
Lawyers consider filing about 100 malpractice cases against Dr. Spyros Panos (Poughkeepsie Journal, NY) Boy dies when church van hit by drunken driver, FHP says (Herald-Tribune, FL) Jury doles out $9M in broken neck case; malpractice award thought to be largest ever in Wyo. (Washington Post) Crash victim sues San…
Howard S. Hershenhorn Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Christopher Sallay Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom & Rubinowitz Howard S. Hershenhorn will serve as Overall Planning Chair and Christopher L. Sallay will serve as Assistant Chair of the New York Bar Association‘s Labor Law/Construction Site…