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This freak accident occurred at a bar in Manhattan. Our client met a friend for a drink at a restaurant in the West Village. He entered through the front door and sat at a table with his back facing the sidewalk. At the end of his meal, he got up and turned to leave the…

An 80-year-old tourist slipped in a bathroom at JFK airport and fractured her hip.  Our client was attempting to lock the stall door when it unexpectedly swung outward due to a broken locking mechanism.  She needed emergency surgery with the implantation of significant hardware.  The case was complicated due to the fact that she landed…

A pedestrian was hit by an operator of an electric bicycle. The bicyclist was making a delivery for a restaurant. Our client was crossing mid-block in one of the busiest areas of the city. She sustained a mild traumatic brain injury, an acromioclavicular separation, fractures of her clavicle, orbital wall, and zygomatic arch, as well…

Our client tripped on a Manhattan sidewalk. She was caused to fall by a metal plate that had been inadvertently left jutting out, underneath a fence at a construction site. One of her discs was herniated and she ended up requiring surgery (a discectomy). The case had numerous hurdles: the plaintiff was on her way…

A Bronx child tripped over her own feet, and landed on a broken tile in the hallway of her aunt’s apartment complex. The only injury was a scar on the left knee. The superintendent of the building admitted that he knew of the broken tile and was not sure why it had never been fixed….

This was a particularly tough case because it had to be brought in a very conservative venue.  The insurance companies’ lawyers initially stated that a jury from this right wing pool would never give our client a penny.  Our client was a chef whose thumb was crushed when he was bitten by a neighbor’s pit…

A 10 year-old child sustained a severed flexor tendon when one of his middle fingers came into contact with a jagged edge of a defective washing machine.  Our investigation revealed that the owner of the laundromat where the accident occurred knew that several of his washing machines were falling apart. Instead of paying $50 per…

An undocumented Mexican immigrant was on his bicycle, making a delivery for a restaurant, when he was struck by a car.  He sustained a fractured tibia. Our client is deaf, mute, illiterate, and does not speak sign language. It is nearly impossible for him to communicate, and the insurance company initially claimed that his inability…

This unusual case happened at a Harlem restaurant.   Our client, who weighed 350 pounds, sat on a chair that broke.  He sustained a torn ligament in his non-dominant wrist.  The restaurant’s insurance company initially took the position that this was our client’s fault.  After we pushed the case forward, they folded and offered a generous…

A 73 year-old woman slipped and fell on a wet floor in a national big box store in upstate New York. Video showed that water had dripped off shopping carts that had just been returned from the parking lot during a storm. The chain’s own procedure of wiping down carts during a storm had not…

This is another example of the LAW TEAM achieving a life changing settlement for an innocent person whose case had been turned down by other firms.  An undocumented immigrant laborer had his pinky finger on his non-dominant hand squashed between a door frame and a cart full of debris.  There were no fractures, and no…

A 12-year old Brooklyn child was hit by a car while riding his scooter. He sustained a compound tibia/fibula fracture that necessitated emergency surgery. The at fault driver had only $50,000 of insurance, but the child was able to avail himself of his father’s underinsured motorist coverage even though the father lived in New Jersey…

This was a difficult case because it appeared our client did not sustain a permanent injury.  Her finger was bitten by a neighbor’s dog.  Although the injury looked gruesome on the date of the incident, it had completely healed within one year. There was no discernible scarring or disfigurement.  Regardless, we still were able to…

Our 73 year-old client was rear ended by a box truck. She sustained a torn rotator cuff that required surgery. The insurance company initially refused to pay, as the defendant driver claimed that our client cut him off. After the LAW TEAM filed a critical motion early in the case, settlement negotiations began. The case…

After a three-day jury trial, a Brooklyn jury awarded 7.5 times what GEICO had offered.  (The final offer was $10,000, even as the jury was deliberating).   Our client was hit by a car as she was walking home from volunteering at a shelter for homeless youth. She sustained a torn meniscus and developed Chronic Regional…

A routine visit to a coffee shop ended up causing a painful injury to our client. (A confidentiality agreement prevents the name of the establishment from being revealed.)  Our client purchased a hot tea, and placed it on a table. As she attempted to sit down, her foot hit the base of the table. Unbeknownst…

A New Jersey corporate lawyer was injured on a commercial flight.  A fellow passenger opened an overhead compartment and accidentally dropped a laptop on our client’s head. He later took a taxi to the ER, and did not seek any other treatment. There was no medical evidence of an injury. Under the Montreal Convention, the…