A 14-year-old boy, who is both autistic and non-verbal, was still missing at the time of the report. He was last seen on surveillance tape leaving the Riverdale School in Long Island City on Oct. 4. Police as well as civilian volunteers have been combing the...
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2 fathers and a 15-year-old die in New Jersey car crash
On Behalf of Howard R. Sanders, Esq. | Oct 21, 2013 | Car Accidents
An early morning two-car collision resulted in the death of all three people involved in the crash. The accident, which happened shortly after midnight on Route 27 near Stony Road in Edison, killed two family men in one car and the 15-year-old driver in the other....
Fifteen-year-old cheerleader dies in car crash
On Behalf of Howard R. Sanders, Esq. | Oct 8, 2013 | Car Accidents
A car accident along the East Coast has led to the tragic death of a 15-year-old girl. After attending a high school dinner, the victim was being driven home by a 16-year-old friend. The freshman at Bucksport High School in Maine was remembered as an active member of...
Older driver kills pedestrian in Queens
On Behalf of Howard R. Sanders, Esq. | Oct 1, 2013 | Pedestrian Accidents
On Sept. 23, an elderly driver hit and killed a pedestrian in the Whitestone section of Queens. The brother of the victim told news sources that this incident occurred only a few years after the brothers' mother was hit and killed in a fatal pedestrian accident. The...
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Verdicts &
Settlements
$3.75 Million
settlement for a construction worker injured by falling metal mesh
$3.5 Million
Million for a carpenter injured on a construction site by a falling metal clamp
$3 Million
for a 35 year old Carpenter injured when his arm became partially impaled on an improperly exposed metal support (rebar) at a construction site.
$2 Million
for a woman who sustained multiple serious injuries after being struck by a hit and run driver in Manhattan.
$1.825 Million
Verdict for a 29 year old construction worker injured during the building of the World Trade Center Memorial.
$1.475 Million
for a Carpenter who was injured when the scaffold he was working upon collapsed.
$1.2 Million
for a 35 year old Cement and Concrete worker from Queens who sustained serious injuries to his back when he slipped on debris and refuse.
$1.2 Million
for a Construction worker and young father in the Bronx who was fatally electrocuted while on a scaffold.
$950,000
for two sisters in high school who sustained serious injuries when struck by a vehicle that mounted the sidewalk in Brooklyn as they waited for the bus to take them to school.
$825,000
for a woman injured as a passenger in an accident involving a bus and a car in the Bronx.
$777,000
for an Ironworker on Long Island who sustained serious injuries when he fell from a ladder which slid out from under him due to icy footing.
$750,000
for a surgeon who sustained a broken knee in a motor vehicle accident (January, 2017).
$750,000
for a man severely burned in his apartment by excessively hot shower water (Sept. 2020).
$660,000
verdict for a 35 year old Cement and Concrete laborer who was injured when the scaffold he was walking upon collapsed.
$650,000
for a cement and concrete worker who slipped and fell over construction debris.
$650,000
for a Cement and Concrete worker who injured his back as a result of slipping upon a discarded pipe and falling down a flight of steps.
$500,000
for a Nursing Home resident injured due to lack of proper care.
$325,000
for a woman who sustained multiple serious injuries to her shoulder as a result of a trip and fall upon a defective sidewalk at a construction project in Manhattan.
$250,000
verdict in the exact amount demanded by our office for our client, but refused by the responsible defendants, was awarded by the jury to our client who sustained a fractured elbow as a result of a fall upon a badly broken sidewalk.
$325,000
for a young woman who sustained a fractured ankle as a result of a fall on soapy steps in her apartment building in the Bronx.
$495,000
for a young mother who was struck by a car while crossing the street near her home in Queens sustaining serious injuries to her leg requiring the surgical placement of a metal plate and screws.
$600,000
for a woman who sustained multiple injuries as a passenger in a motor vehicle accident.
$425,000
was secured by our office for a Cement and Concrete worker injured when a work area collapsed beneath him.
$400,000
for a woman struck from behind by a car as she walked to a supermarket in a shopping center parking lot in Yonkers.
$200,000
for a young man, 15 years of age, who sustained a partial tear of the rotator cuff of his right shoulder, which has now healed without any limitation upon his activities.
$325,000
for a school principal in the Bronx who tripped and fell over a construction plate in the school parking lot.
$300,000
for a young Cement and Concrete worker who was struck by falling debris dislodged from a building by a swinging crane.
$250,000
for a Cement and Concrete worker injured as a result of a fall at a Manhattan construction site.
$300,000
for a school teacher in the Bronx who sustained an injury to her shoulder when she tripped and fell due to negligently placed computer wiring.
$275,000
to a Construction laborer doing bridge work whose arm was fractured when falling construction material caused him to fall into the East River and onto debris.
$450,000
for a child injured when a table fell on him in a laundromat in Queens.
$450,000
verdict for a Volunteer Firefighter in Westchester who sustained injuries in the course of fighting a fire.
