A woman was shopping for shoes in a major department store in Manhattan. She was standing on a platform looking at shoes on display and took a step backward not realizing that there was a step down of 9 inches to a lower level of the floor. From the fall she fractured her hip and

A man from Brooklyn in his 20’s was traveling in the elevator in the apartment building where he lived when the elevator abruptly stopped between floors causing him to lose his balance and fall to the floor of the elevator. He tore the ligaments in his wrist which was surgically repaired. The superintendent of the

A woman stopped her car in a double-parked position to allow an ambulance with lights and sirens on its way to an emergency to pass her. As the ambulance was driving around her vehicle, the front right corner of the ambulance hit the left rear corner of the woman’s car. The front of the ambulance

The City of New York had repaved the roadway on Madison A venue and left the roadway in a condition where it was sloped downward and the roadway was much lower stepping off the curb than usual. The client, a woman in her mid-60’s, stepped from the curb onto the roadway and because of the

Man in his late 20’s was driving his car when he was struck in the rear by another vehicle. The client sustained a herniated disc in his neck and a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder for which he underwent surgical procedures. He was not able to work for seven months as a result of

A woman was walking on a sidewalk on Fifth A venue in Manhattan when the heel of her shoe got caught between adjoining pieces of the concrete sidewalk. We claimed that the space/ gap between the two pieces of sidewalk was excessively wide and deep and that the owner of the building failed to inspect,

A woman was driving her vehicle when it was struck by a panel van. The woman had previously undergone surgery to her neck with removal of a disc and insertion of a metal plate due to an earlier accident. This accident reinjured the woman’s neck and she had to have additional surgery. Even though at

A man was standing on a wooden scaffold which he had constructed, and he was painting the side of a house. While the man was standing on the scaffold, the planks separated, causing him to fall between the planks to the ground 20 feet below. He injured his neck and underwent surge1y with insertion of

A man was walking down concrete stairs outside the building where he lived when he lost his balance and fell. The concrete steps were sloped and uneven, which caused him to mis-step, lose his balance and fall. He fractured his elbow, for which he underwent surgery and the doctor inserted a plate into his arm.