Several years ago, Oscar Torres, a thirty-nine year old truck driver, was delivering office furniture in New York, when he was struck in the head, neck and back with the metal gate of a freight elevator. The location was a high rise building owned by Defendants 425 T35 FG LLC and Hiro Real Estate LLL,... Read More

A number of years ago, a 40-year-old electrician, was working in a Federal Express warehouse located in Brooklyn. He and a co-worker were assigned to the area to repair various non-functioning high bay lighting fixtures that were attached to the ceiling of the loading dock area. In order to reach one of the fixtures, he... Read More

A sixty-year old former service officer, Jimmy Dunne, and his wife were travelling to Long Island, New York to visit friends at a toddler’s birthday party.  While waiting at a red light, the couple observed an unrelated three-car collision. They called 911 and while they waited for police to arrive. Jimmy went to check to... Read More

When we think about personal injury cases, we often think about the garden variety claims:  the slip and fall at the grocery store, the fender-bender around the corner, or maybe the dog bite in the park.  But recently a court considered the claims of an 87-year old plaintiff who suffered from burns from a heat... Read More

If the judge sides with you in the beginning of a case, this doesn’t always mean the jury will side with you at the end. A plaintiff can clearly suffer an accident caused by the defendant but not be rewarded any damages. The Story: Plaintiff gets into a multi-car pileup while in a cab On... Read More

The Story: Evan rear-ended Monica. Monica Harris was driving one day when she was rear-ended by Evan Campbell. She, like most people, thought that this would likely be an open-and-shut case — because the person who gets hit always wins in a rear-ending scenario, right? Wrong. The two parties, Monica and Evan, disagreed on whether... Read More

“I don’t remember anything until I woke up in the hospital.” Paul Owens, once a Sergeant Sheriff in Philadelphia, was riding in elevator car 2B in the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center when he experienced a real-life Tower of Terror moment. Owens was the only person in the elevator on August 4th, 2016, but others who... Read More

A California man was seriously injured when the steering wheel on the truck he was driving locked, causing the truck to crash and roll several times. The worst part about this accident is that it could have been avoided. At the time of the accident, Dunlap was driving a Ford F-250 truck, which he had... Read More

A traditionally “defendant friendly” court in Allegheny County, PA shocked observers in March of 2017 by finding massive damages for the plaintiff in a slip and fall case. Allegheny County courts are generally lenient on defendants and tend to only award punitive damages for especially grievous actions. The defendant in this case, Target Corporation, must... Read More

On October 17, 2017, the trial court located in Denton County, Texas, returned a surprising verdict which cut the requested damages in half. A mother and daughter who were driving through town together where injured when a woman carelessly pulled out of her driveway without checking for traffic. Despite finding the defendant completely liable, the... Read More