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On October 5, 2012 a front-page article appeared in the business section of the New York Times, it’s title, “Two Sides of Product Liability – A Factory’s Closing Focuses Attention On Tort Reform”. The article tells the story of the closing of a plant in Oklahoma [with the loss of

With millions of students in public schools, accidents and injuries are a statistical reality. The legal questions that emerge in those cases where a student injured are: What is the duty the school owes to the student and what liability attaches to the school? The body of law that determines

A party who claims injury through the neglect of another must institute suit within the period prescribed by law or be barred by the applicable statute of limitations. What is a statute of limitations and why does it exist in American law? Essentially, each right that is denied or infringed

An action against New York City requires that a Notice of Claim be filed within ninety days of the event that is the subject of the claim. Essentially, the Notice of Claim must contain sufficient enough detail in order that the municipality will have an opportunity to timely investigate and

For plaintiff to prevail in a medical malpractice action, he or she must establish two elements: 1) That the defendant departed from good and accepted practice in its treatment of the plaintiff, and: 2) That the departure was a proximate cause, or substantial factor in causing the injury claimed. These

In personal injury cases where a party’s mental or physical condition “is in controversy, any party may serve notice on another party to submit to a physical, mental or blood examination by a designated physician”. (CPLR §3121[a]) The party to be examined will receive a notice from the party seeking

Colella v. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (NYLJ, 10/1/12) is another example of how the trial courts seek to apply the various interpretations with respect to a worker seeking recovery for injuries incurred in  an elevation-related task under New York’s “Scaffold Law” (Labor Law §240(1)). In this

It was during the fall of 1968 when a young Civil Court Judge left a meeting of the Queens County Bar Association with a unique thought. “There are highly respected ethnic-based lawyer organizations throughout. Why not a professional organization of Jewish lawyers in Queens?” he pondered. And so a wondrous

The issue of whether the plaintiff suffered a “serious injury” as defined in the Insurance Law §5102 (d) is raised constantly in those cases in which a plaintiff claims soft tissue injuries, bulging discs, disc herniations, and other cervical and lumbar syndromes. Where the court concludes that a claimed injury

Under our civil law, the plaintiff has the burden of proof to establish by a fair preponderance of the credible evidence that the injury sustained resulted through the negligence of the storekeeper defendant. The law also recognizes there are those cases where the instrumentality that caused the injury was within