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New York Product Liability Attorney Anthony Gair: Trial of the Plaintiff’s case

Our partner Anthony Gair was invited by the New York State Bar Association to speak at their seminar LITIGATING THE PRODUCTS LIABILITY CASE: LAW AND PRACTICE in New York City on October 24th. This is a video from his presentation. If you would like to see the complete program (with…

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Product Liability – Defective Car: 188,000 SUVs recalled by Nissan to fix brake issue

Defective brake control software may increase the risk of an accident for Nissan Pathfinders from model years 2013 and 2014, as well as Infiniti JX35 SUVs from model year 2013, and QX60 SUVs from model year 2014. In the affected vehicles, on rough or uneven roads, software settings in the…

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New York Personal Injury Attorneys Jeffrey Bloom and Jeffrey Lichtman are the new leaders of LawPAC, NYSTLA’s political action committee

Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf is proud to announce that our partner Jeffrey Bloom together with Jeffrey Lichtman from Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman have been elected Co-Chairs of LawPAC, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association’s Political action committee. Both Mr. Lichtman and Mr. Bloom have…

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In New York, most drivers who carelessly killed or injured a pedestrian or bicyclist are not held responsible for their acts

In New York City in 2012 there were 152 pedestrian and cyclist fatalities and 14,327 injuries. Of those 14,479 crashes, DMV data show NYPD cited 101 motorists for careless driving. That’s a citation rate of 0.7%. The careless driving law was initiated in 2009 and was intended as a minimum…

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Even though Fourth Ave has a high record of pedestrian injury and death, Brooklyn’s Community Board rejects city’s plan for slowing traffic to prevent car accidents

After too many pedestrians suffered personal injury or wrongful death in traffic accidents on Fourth Ave in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, New York City proposed to trim traffic lanes to slow speeding drivers. This proposal was rejected by the Brooklyn Community Board 10. According to the Brooklyn Daily, some board members…

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Hopsital Negligence: patient missing for 17 days found dead in hospital stairwell after orderly stepped over her body a week earlier

A worker at San Francisco General Hospital reported to a nurse that he had to step over the passed out body of a woman while going up and down a fire escape stairwell. The nurse contacted the Sheriff’s Department who is in charge of the security at the hospital but…

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Product Liability – Defective Car: serious issue related to defective brake system prompts Hyundai to announce a second recall of its Genesis Sedan

Last march Hyundai recalled its Genesis Sedan model manufactured between April 1, 2008 and March 16, 2012 to fix a defective brake system but only 60% have been repaired. After the NHTSA received 23 complaints of incidents related to increased brake pedal travel and reduced brake effectiveness in model year…

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One man died from burns and another one was critically injured while jumping out of the window after a house with no smoke alarms caught fire in New York

One person died and one was seriously injured in a blaze that tore through a home on Springfield Blvd. in Queens Village New York. Fire officials don’t know yet what sparked the blaze but said there were no working smoke detectors in the home. Read more in the New york…

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