A four-year-old boy was brought to the hospital for a routine eyelid repair. To cut costs, the hospital contracted out its anesthesia services to a third-party corporation.
This accident occurred in the Bronx when our client was working on a sanitation truck. The driver lost control while making a turn. Our client was ejected and the truck ran over his leg.
A 22-year-old theater intern was walking across the intersection of 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan when she was struck by the rear door of a passing truck which had flown open because it had been improperly secured by the driver.
Dansker & Aspromonte Associates LLP represented 60 tenants in the infamous Schomburg Plaza fire. A fire started in a jammed compactor chute on the 20th floor of the high-rise apartment building.
This female accountant was walking after work in Battery Park on the pedestrian promenade when she was suddenly struck by a speeding police motor scooter.
This case involved a 6-year-old girl who was in a minivan that was struck by an ambulance in a multi-car collision and sustained a fractured hip and fractured heel bone which required multiple surgeries.
A 26-year-old bicycle deliveryman was struck by a speeding Dollar Rent-A-Car van on a busy intersection, causing multiple fractures in his neck, back, arm and leg, as well as mild brain damage.
In one of the most tragic cases this office has seen, two mothers and their four teenagers were driving to a high school swimming meet in a van. When the driver suspected a flat tire, the mother of two of the children inexplicably stopped the van in the right-moving lane of traffic.
Connie C. was driving home in a heavy rainstorm when her car suddenly drove into a pond of water on the roadway which caused her car to slide across multiple lanes of traffic and over an embankment. She suffered serious physical and psychological injuries.
A 20-year-old busboy was struck by a car on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. He suffered brain damage and multiple fractures of his back, legs, arms, hip and knees.
A 42-year-old firefighter, who had previously run over 30 marathons, cut his leg while fighting a fire. He went to the Fire Department Medical Clinic and then to Bellevue Hospital for treatment. He was given antibiotics, stitched and released. Ordinarily, this should have been the end to the story.
Mrs. Y-H was a passenger on a subway train that derailed. At the moment of impact, she was thrown across the subway car and into a pole. She was knocked unconscious.
A 21-year-old developmentally disabled Chinese boy was walking with some friends after school when he stepped out into the crosswalk against the light and a City bus which was turning a little too close to the corner struck him.
A woman and her boyfriend rode into an unguarded excavation site in an area that was pitch-black underneath an overpass. Rhonda’s bike fell into a pit and her face was smashed into the roadway.
A 39-year-old secretary was struck by a private school bus in the Bronx. Initially, Ms. M. suffered a contusion that caused a large hematoma of her right thigh.
During subsequent visits, the ER staff at the hospital failed to diagnose compartment syndrome, a condition that causes intense swelling and pain due to fluid buildup.
A 46-year-old carpenter was working on a straight ladder which had been leaned against the wall on a jobsite. He fell when the ladder slipped away from the wall.
A 36-year-old woman met a man at PJ Clarke’s Tavern in Manhattan. After being served drinks at the bar for over five hours, they got into his Alfa Romeo Spider and within minutes he proceeded to run a red light on Park Avenue, and they were struck by a speeding taxicab.
Mrs. R. was a 46-year-old worker who cleaned offices at night. Unbeknownst to her, the building was being fumigated with a very concentrated and powerful chemical agent.
A 53-year-old car service driver got out of his car to retrieve money dropped by another driver in the drive-thru lane of a Burger King. As he stepped out of his vehicle, he fell through a broken sewer grate into a 4-foot-deep opening.
Instead of delivery by C-section, which was clearly indicated, the attending physician elected a natural birth. When the baby was stuck in the pelvic area, excessive force was used to pull her out, injuring the nerves in her neck and causing partial paralysis of her left arm. The condition is known as Erbs Palsy.
Baby S. was born with a congenital hip dislocation which was not anyone’s fault. Failure to diagnose and properly treat the condition resulted in a slight but permanent deformity.
A 56-year-old home health attendant tripped over an exposed wire that was extending from a telephone box on the subway platform. Cordelia required a knee replacement.
A 50-year-old construction worker fell through a hole in the scaffold where he was working and sustained small fractures of the spinous process and mild cognitive deficits.
A young girl slid down a sliding pond in the playground of an NYC school. As Ayisha slid down, her ring finger went into the gap and the top of it was cut off.
A 45-year-old construction worker was working at a job site when a wood beam fell from a dumpster and struck his right lower leg, resulting in a degloving injury and fractures requiring surgery.
One day after school, Julio ran after his bus, which was leaving without him. He slipped and was run over by the back wheels, sustaining severe injuries, including bilateral hip fractures and a shearing injury to his buttocks.
Meusette, a 19-year-old university student, was a passenger in the back seat of a car that lost control and struck a barrier in Washington Heights. As a result of the accident, she suffered a fractured pelvis.
