Slip, Trip and Fall Injury: Property owner liability for slip, trip an fall injuries is not absolute. Â Property owners must be allowed a reasonable amount of time to remove hazardous conditions resulting from a storm. Â However, the property owner cannot rely on the “storm in progress” regardless of the circumstances as the property owner found […]
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FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: April 7, 2013 Ankle Fractures: One of the most common and serious ankle fractures is called a trimalleolar fracture. A trimalleolar fracture is a fracture of the
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Knee Injuries – This is the second in a blog series intended to educate the reader about common knee injuries. Â Most people have had a minor knee problem at one time or another. Knee problems and injuries most often occur during sports or recreational activities, work-related tasks, or home projects. Sudden (acute) injuries may be
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FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: March 17, 2013 Knee Injuries: This is the last of a three-part blog series on knee injuries. Sprained (partially torn) ligaments in the knee are frequently treated without
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FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: March 17, 2013 Knee Injuries: Knee injuries occur in all phases of life. Â From work to recreation to normal daily activities, people suffer knee injuries that can be
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Negligence: This week, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department handed down a decision in the case of MUSSARA v. MEGA FUNWORKS, INC., 2011-01511 (2d Dept 10-10-2012). The case involved an appeal by the plaintiffs, in an action to recover damages for personal injuries against defendant Mega Funworks, Inc., doing
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$8000000.00 Settlement Louie Cevasco (engineering project manager): On 7/10/04, I was employed by an engineering firm named STV, Inc. a leading engineering and construction management firm that specializes in projects involving highways, bridges, rail and mass transit. After the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01, the U.S. Government gave Amtrak funds to make Amtrak’s railroad tunnels more
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$3880000.00 Chrystal Benbow Chrystal Benbow, a 43-year-old mentally handicapped woman who resided in a group home, suffered life-threatening injuries on 10/15/17 when the minivan that was transporting her crossed over the double yellow line and caused a head on collision with a pick-up truck. The driver of the minivan claimed that she swerved to avoid
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$2683893.00 Verdict Jeromie Anderson (Metro-North railroad trackman): On 3/3/09, I worked for Metro-North Railroad as a trackman and was sent out with a co-worker to pick up scrap rail along the Hudson Division Line’s right of way using a boom truck. The co-worker was not qualified to operate the boom and extended the boom up
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$2500000.00 Allen Charles On 3/24/18, Allen Charles, a Metro-North Commuter Railroad Structural Welder, was assigned to work on a job that involved installation of two steel walkways on top of a wall alongside the elevated tracks just outside the mouth of the Park Avenue tunnel. The pre-fabricated walkways were loaded onto a high rail boom
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