Jacoby & Meyers, LLP

SETTLEMENT: CONTRACTOR OVERWORKS EMPLOYEE WHO FALLS ASLEEP AT WHEEL A New Jersey construction company needed to get a job finished. A laborer works from 6:00 am to 3 pm. The same laborer returns for another shift that day. The construction company works him straight from 9 pm through the night to 7 am the next day. The exhausted laborer was driving home and fell asleep while driving on the Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus. He crossed over the center median and hit our client who was on his way to work traveling in the opposite direction. The crash spun our client’s car and his...

Wrongful Death Settlement – Church Van Crash A Brooklyn congregation of the Seventh Day Adventist Church organized a religious retreat in upstate New York. They rented a van for the trip to and from the City. On the way back to Brooklyn a tractor-trailer crashed into the van at a controlled intersection. One of the van passengers, a 33-year-old congregant, was ejected from the van and was pronounced dead at the scene. His family hired Jacoby & Meyers, LLP to hold the tractor-trailer driver and the van driver accountable for his death. The entire Brooklyn community lost a great...

SETTLEMENT: RECKLESS DRIVER SPEEDING ON SNOW HELD ACCOUNTABLE Responsible drivers on Lake Moraine Road in Madison County know to reduce their speed when snow begins to fall. When a driver ignores the road conditions and causes a crash, we hold them responsible. Shortly after it started snowing a driver was driving too fast and crossed over the center line, crashing into our client and his wife. Our client had recently returned to work after being out of work for a few months due to a prior shoulder and back injury. Two short weeks after returning this crash happened. As a result...

Settlement : Multiple Falls At Nursing Home Upon admission to the nursing home in Suffolk County, Long Island, our 81-year-old client was assessed to be a risk of falls. After such an assessment, the nursing home failed to create and implement a care plan to minimize her risk of falling. After falling four times, the nursing home still failed to implement an appropriate care plan. On her fifth fall, our client struck her head and suffered a brain injury. It wasn’t until her daughter visited, saw the large bump on her forehead and insisted on medical care did the nursing home do...

Jury Verdict for Manhattan Woman who Slipped on Fish Guts left on Sidewalk by Citarella After a three-week trial and two days’ deliberation, the Manhattan jury decided in her favor, returning a $6.45 million verdict which includes medical expenses and past and future pain and suffering. J&M trial attorney Sharon Scanlan noted, “This Manhattan jury listened to all the evidence, and they spoke through their verdict that it is not ok for a grocery store to take over a sidewalk for their business and profits and not protect pedestrians in doing so. We are very grateful for their...

SETTLEMENT: BROOKLYN MOTORCYCLIST T-BONED Our client’s life changed in an instant when a driver in the Bronx chose to run a stop sign. The driver t-boned our client, who was passing through the intersection on his motorcycle. The other driver tried to avoid taking responsibility by claiming his vision was obstructed. This type of thinking is dangerous and puts us all at risk. We cannot afford for drivers to make guesses when it comes to safety. When there is limited visibility, we know we must wait until we’re absolutely certain it is safe to proceed. Instead of waiting until he...

SETTLEMENT: WESTCHESTER LANDLORD FAILS TO SALT OR SAND ICY CONDITION Settlement: $200,000 Landlords who choose not to maintain their property must be held accountable when someone gets hurt. That’s what we did for our 53-year-old client who was on his way to work at the Westchester VA when the concrete slab at his house was iced up and his landlord never salted or sanded. The slip caused him to rupture a tendon in his leg so badly he needed surgery.

Settlement – Town Garbage Truck Crash Leads to Extensive Spine Surgeries After the defendants disputed our client’s injuries, we aggressively litigated this case through arbitration and prepared for trial, ultimately securing a $3,800,000 settlement. Trial attorneys Ken Fromson and Jermaine Mercer, along with Managing Partner Andrew Finkelstein, fought tirelessly to achieve this outstanding result for our client.

SETTLEMENT: MOTOR VEHICLE, TRACTOR TRAILER CRASH While feeling a little stiff at the scene, our client refused emergency room treatment. Later that night his neck and back began to hurt more and he decided to go to the emergency room after all. Over time, his neck pain began to travel down his arms. Five months after the car crash his doctors performed a surgery to his neck, fusing one level together. While this helped the pain in his neck, his lower back pain continued. After a series of injections, his doctors decided to insert a spinal cord stimulator to relieve the pain...

VERDICT – ONE OF THE LARGEST VERDICTS AGAINST A NURSING HOME IN NEW YORK STATE In one of the largest verdicts against a nursing home in New York State, a jury of 6 New York County residents rendered a verdict today totaling $5,032,281 consisting of $2,980,00 in compensatory damages and $2,052,000 in statutory interest against the Northern Manhattan Nursing Home, located at 116 East 125th Street in New York City.