A man was walking home on a public sidewalk in front of a condominium in Brooklyn when he slipped and fell. It was snowing at the time of his accident and he slipped on ice which was hidden underneath the snow. Our law firm hired an expert meteorologist who examined the weather reports and radar Read More »

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 Read More »

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 Read More »

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. Read More »

A woman had slipped and fallen due to wet steps on the third floor of an apartment building, It had snowed earlier that day. We established that the porter did not clear the snow from the sidewalk and people stepped in the snow on the sidewalk then walked into the building tracking the snow up Read More »

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 Read More »

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 Read More »

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, Read More »

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 Read More »