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Trial Judge’s Pain and Suffering Award Increased on Appeal in Construction...
On July 3, 2013, Xiaoen Xie, a welder working at a construction site in Queens, was injured when he fell from the ground floor to the basement 10 feet below. Mr. Xie, then 47 years old, was rushed to...
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Defendant’s Challenges to Large Pain and Suffering Damages Award Upheld on...
On January 6, 2015, Kenia Cabrera had just finished work at a Dunkin Donuts shop located at LaGuardia Airport and had returned to the employee parking lot to retrieve her car and go home. As she was...
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Significant Pain and Suffering Award in Non-Surgical Herniated Discs Case
On October 5, 2013, Christine O’Connell was sitting in her car stopped at a red light in Hamburg (a Buffalo suburb) when another driver drove through the light causing a crash. Christine, then a 24...
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Significant Damages Awards in Spinal and Ankle Injuries Case
On December 29, 2013, Angelina Register was asleep in her apartment at 1265 Morrison Avenue in the Bronx when leaky pipes caused ceiling plaster to fall on her. When she got out of bed, she injured her...
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Significant Pain and Suffering Damages Increase Ordered in Car Crash Case
On July 27, 2013, Franklin Abreu-DePena, then 39 years old, was driving his taxi in the Bronx when he was involved in a crash with another vehicle. Mr. Abreu-DePena claimed shoulder, neck and back...
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Construction Worker’s Pain and Suffering Award Slashed
On August 11, 2014, Mirson Pimenta, then a 42 year old construction worker, was injured on the job creating a foundation for a new building at 1504 Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn. He was bending over...
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Construction Worker’s Damages Awards Reduced on Appeal
On June 14, 2013, Albert Masmalaj was employed as a carpenter at a a recycling plant construction site in Brooklyn when he fell from a scaffold six feet to the cement floor below. The Accident Site –...
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Parties in Car Crash Case Dispute Date from Which Interest on Pain and...
On December 17, 2013, Michael Sabine was injured when he was driving his vehicle in Waterloo and a state park employee in a state-owned pick-up truck lost control and crossed into his lane causing a...
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Judgment Affirmed in Tree Stand Fall Case
On October 30, 2016, Michael Davis and his father-in-law R. Foster Hinds were installing a tree stand for deer hunting on property in upstate Canisteo owned by Mr. Hinds and his wife. After the stand...
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Appellate Court Affirms Jury Verdict Awarding No Damages in Significant Motor...
On March 5, 2015, Vale Thomas was stopped in his car at a red light on Rockaway Boulevard in Queens when his vehicle was struck from behind by another vehicle. Mr. Vale, then 64 years old, struck his...
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