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FF PLLC WINS SUMMARY JUDGMENT - SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES TO PLAINTIFF'S DEPOSITION TESTIMONY CREATED ONLY A FEIGNED ISSUE AND THE EXPERT'S CONCLUSORY OPINION DID NOT DEFEAT SJ

12/18/2017

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Plaintiff allegedly fell down the stairs on his way to a doctor's office. The plaintiff alleged the stairs were defectively designed. Defense established that the stairs were not defective and that the plaintiff, by his own testimony, did not know what caused him to fall. In opposition, the plaintiff made substantive changes to his deposition, materially changing his testimony, that the Court concluded were unsupported by an adequate explanation for the corrections (Torres v. Bd. of Educ. of City of New York, 137 A.D.3d 1256). The Court also found that the substantive changes presented a "feigned factual issue," designed to avoid the consequences of an earlier admission (McGuire v. Quinnonez, 280 A.D. 2d 587), which were insufficient to defeat summary judgment. The plaintiff also offered an expert affidavit in which the expert engineer speculated as to the cause of the plaintiff's fall. Stanley Fein attested that the alleged “improper staircase geometry violated good and accepted standards of engineering practice.”
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The Court, by J. Sweeney, (citing  Buchholz v. Trump, 767 Fifth Ave., 5 N.Y.3d 1 (2005)) concluded that the expert opinion was conclusory and speculative and also insufficient to defeat summary judgment.  
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FF PLLC GETS DEFENSE VERDICT AFTER A 3 WEEK TRIAL OF A TBI CASE

12/18/2017

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Christopher Keane (as lead counsel) and Fern Flomenhaft won a defense verdict in this traumatic brain injury case following a 3 week trial in Supreme Court, New York County. The plaintiff, a 70 year old woman, sustained a severe traumatic brain injury in an unwitnessed fall at our client’s building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Although the plaintiff testified that she fell on front entrance stairs which were allegedly defective, she was found by witnesses on an upper landing.

Plaintiff was represented by Alan Shapey, Esq. of Lipsig, Shapey, Manus & Moverman. Plaintiff’s counsel asked the jury to award $5,000,000 in future medical care expenses, $5,000,000 for past pain and suffering, and $15,000,000 for future pain and suffering. After a day of deliberations, the jury returned a verdict in favor of defendant. The jury concluded that the building negligently maintained the stairs but that the plaintiff did not establish a causal connection to plaintiff’s injuries. Therefore the jury did not consider plaintiff’s injuries and awarded $0 in damages.  
 




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FF PLLC WINS SUMMARY - PLAINTIFF FALLS FROM LOADING DOCK AT A HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH MENACING PARTYGOERS AND SUSTAINS SERIOUS INJURIES

10/13/2017

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FF PLLC had a nice win of summary judgment in this case, in which a 43 year old, fragile (eggshell skull) plaintiff sustained multiple serious injuries, including fracture of the left hip with open reduction internal fixation, post-operative lightheadedness and irregular heartbeat, fractured left distal radius and ulna styloid (wrist), intense stomach pain and stomach ulcer due to medications and alleged permanent scarring, disfigurement and deformity, when, on October 27, 2012, Halloween, he fell from a loading dock in defendant’s building.
 
Plaintiff and other party-goers, invited by the co-defendant, were playing a menacing game of investigation in which partygoers dressed as zombies purposely turned off the lights and spooked each other, including plaintiff, on the loading dock of defendant’s building.
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FF PLLC WINS SUMMARY JUDGMENT DISMISSING LABOR LAW CASE – 240(1) and 241(6) – REPLACING A BOILER WAS NOT AN “ALTERATION” UNDER THE SCAFFOLD LAW

6/20/2016

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​Plaintiff alleged that he was injured on December 5, 2013, while employed by Hassan Construction, who was retained by the insured to replace the boiler with an equivalent unit. Plaintiff claimed that his hand was fractured by a pipe used by plaintiff and the other workers as a make-shift ramp to help slide the replacement boiler down 3 steps, while moving the new boiler into the basement of the defendant’s premises. Plaintiff alleged violations of Labor Law, Sections 240(1) and 241(6).

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FF PLLC WINS SUMMARY JUDGMENT DISMISSING PLAINTIFF’S CASE – OPEN AND OBVIOUS CONDITION AND NO DEFECT

5/26/2016

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On April 20, 2016, Judge Sylvia Ash granted our motion for summary judgment in this action in which plaintiff alleged that she sustained a left distal femur periprosthetic fracture resulting in open reduction and internal fixation with bone grafting under general aneshthesia as a result of what she claimed was an elevated room division, resembling a door saddle, between her living room and dining room.

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