Personal Injury

The U.S Health Officials from CDC on Sunday reported an additional 27 cases of meningitis making total number of meningitis cases as 91. This fungal meningitis outbreak is linked to steroid injections that has killed seven people so far and now infected 91 in nine states. The recall is being done due to risk of [...]

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Queens, Ny, July 31st 2010 – Police have reported that a 27-year-old man named Dario Pavia was killed while saving his younger brother from a fight that took place at Queens’s subway platform. Police and his relatives said that a group of men were fighting with 20-year-old Khristian at the 85th St.Forest Parkway Station and [...]

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N.H.Beach, NY 21 July, 2010 – According to reports, a dead jellyfish of the size of a turkey platter stung nearly 150 people on Wednesday afternoon (21 July, 2010) at Wallis Sands Beach. This mammoth jellyfish drifted a shore at around 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Several Paramedics treated the victims who were stung by this [...]

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A Brooklyn jury returned a verdict for Bouazo Kouho, a security guard who ran inside a Trump Village apartment complex to put out a fire. As he ran, his foot was caught in a hole created by a faulty sprinkler system.  He suffered a torn Achilles tendon which required surgery.  After a 100% liability verdict [...]

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A high low agreement is made between the lawyers for the plaintiff and defendant with the consent of their clients. Such an agreement is a contract that sets a ceiling and a floor on the recovery thereby seeking to limit the potential payout defendants must make in the event of a large jury verdict while [...]

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Often times the plaintiff and his or her attorney will make an agreement with the defendants and their attorneys called a high low agreement. The purpose of such an agreement is to set a high or ceiling value as well as a low or floor value for which the case will be resolved. This guarantees [...]

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If you or someone you know have been injured as a result of a ceiling collapse, it is important to rememeber the following: 1. Take pictures of the ceiling immediately after the collapse to show the damage. 2. If you feel pain, go to the hospital. The Ambulance and sometimes the FDNY Fire Department respond [...]

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Frekhtman & Associates, a New York personal injury law firm obtained a jury verdict of $2,800,000.00 for a construction worker who was injured when a temporary light fixture fell from the ceiling and struck him on the head.  The plaintiff was laying tiles onto the wall inside a New York City Transit Authority station near [...]

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An elderly man in his mid 80′s tripped and fell over a box left under a pool table at a senior citizen care center. He sustained a fracture of his hip requiring surgery.  He retained Frekhtman & Associates to represent him for this serious personal injury case. The firm filed a lawsuit, conducted discovery, and [...]

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As per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 4 million workers were injured on the job during 2005 and 5,700 workers lost their lives from work related injuries. New York State’s no-fault worker’s compensation program is meant to provide financial protection to workers hurt on the job and to provide them appropriate medical [...]

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