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FALLING OBJECT
Rank
Case Date
Resolution
Award Total
Case Name
Case
Plainti ’s Law Firm
Description
1
10/28/2011
Verdict- Plainti
$2,858,320
Brethour v. Alice Hyde Medical Center
Patient struck by falling X-ray equip- ment, claimed brain injury
Lawrence Elmen,Jr. &Gregory J. Sanda of FitzGerald Morris Baker Firth, PC, Glens Falls, NY & Stephen R. Co ey of O’Connell & Aronowitz, PC, Albany, NY
2
6/10/2011
Verdict- Plainti
$1,100,000
Velez v. ASAP Dis- tributing Inc.
Supermarket’s customer struck by falling shelf
Christopher A. Marothy of Dubow, Smith & Marothy, Bronx, NY, trial counsel, Michael A. Ruiz, New York, NY, Bronx, NY
FIRE
Rank
Case Date
Resolution
Award Total
Case Name
Case Description
Plainti ’s Law Firm
1
3/30/2011
Decision- Plainti
$333,230
Deveaux v. Landau
Deadly re in adjacent building destroyed plain- ti s’ home
Steven J. Pecoraro of Pecoraro & Schiesel LLP, New York, NY
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