Flaster Law Case Results


$475,000 for Premises Liability

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

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$450,000 for Elevator Accident

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

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$850,000 for re-injury of neck in a car accident

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

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$750,000 for fall from scaffold while painting a house

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

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$500,000 for woman who tripped on raised sidewalk

A woman was walking on a side street in Manhattan when she tripped and fell to the ground. The sidewalk was raised about one inch higher than the adjoining sidewalk. The fall caused the woman to fracture her wrist for which she underwent surgery with insertion of a plate. The woman was able to return

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