Premises Liability

When customers enter a business, they expect it to be safe. When people enter a house, they expect it to be safe. Each expectation is reasonable. And yet that expectation is not always satisfied. When a business owner or a homeowner fails to live up to those expectations, New Yorkers who suffer injuries in the […]

New Yorkers may not want to admit it, but the following has happened to us all. We are walking along, looking at our phone or chatting with a friend when — thud — we find ourselves sprawled on the ground. In the best scenarios, we feel a bit embarrassed and then stand up, brush ourselves

Because New York is such a busy place with various kinds of weather, there are times that property and business owners might lapse in adhering to all safety requirements. This can lead to slip and fall accidents and injuries. Whether this occurs because of a broken or icy sidewalk, because something fell from the property

Glenn Dolan of Morgan Levine Dolan negotiated a $900,000 settlement for a 57-year-old Queens woman who injured her neck and back, when a portion of her kitchen ceiling collapsed, striking her nose.  The landlord’s attorneys and medical experts argued that the woman, who denied neck and back pain on the date of accident, who sustained

A 22 year-old Brooklyn man was killed in a forklift accident shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday. According to police, Gustavo Tapia was using an electric pallet stacker to push a Yale forklift up a ramp leading to a parking area on the roof of a Midwood supermarket. The forklift was manned by another employee, but somehow it rolled

Eight people are recovering Tuesday after suffering various injuries when shelving collapsed at a dollar store in the Bronx.  Several tall units full of canned goods and other products toppled one after another, landing on customers around 3:45 p.m. Monday at Discount Outlet on Morris Avenue in the Morrisania section. Fire officials say the collapsing

Four more bodies were found overnight in the smoldering rubble of two upper Manhattan buildings leveled by a gas explosion that injured more than 70 people and spewed debris for blocks, bringing the death toll to seven. Rescue crews brought in a backhoe and bulldozer and were digging through the debris Thursday for more buried

A 36-year-old woman was injured after being hit by a falling metal pipe near the intersection of Madison Avenue and 42nd Street. According to reports, the woman had just left a cafe when she was struck outside of a fast food restaurant at about 8:30 a.m. Her injuries are reported to be serious and included

Glenn Dolan of Morgan Levine Dolan obtained a 1.2 million-dollar verdict for the wife a Brooklyn building superintendent who sustained head, neck and back injuries when a portion of her bathroom ceiling collapsed.  Her husband was terminated from his job and the Housing Court had issued an Order evicting the couple from their apartment. The defendant argued that

Two pedestrians were hospitalized after the sign from a large discount department store in Brooklyn fell from the building’s facade, along with a piece of the roof, on Sunday morning as high winds blew through the city. Employees at M&S Bargain Hunters, on the corner of Fulton Street and Bedford Avenue in Bed-Stuy, said they heard a loud noise and