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| | | Another New York City Crane Collapse Accident Justifies The Need For Safer Construction Site Procedures |
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A construction site in Lower Manhattan was the site of another devastating accident on Friday, February 6, 2016. Amid heavy snow and high winds, a massive crane crashed down at Worth and Church streets in the Tribeca neighborhood shortly before 8:30 a.m., crushing a row of parked cars and killing at least one person.
A 38-year-old pedestrian who lives on the Upper West Side was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Two other innocent bystanders had to be rescued from their cars by firefighters and rushed to the hospital for immediate medical attention. A 45-year-old woman suffered a leg injury and a 73-year-old man sustained a laceration to his head. Gersowitz, Libo & Korek P.C. has been retained to represent one of the victims of this tragedy.
Construction site accidents have become a common occurrence in New York City. Although some accidents are not avoidable, others can be prevented. If the contractors and project owners take certain precautionary and preventive measures, the majority of these tragic accidents can be avoided, or at least the extent of the injuries can be reduced. |
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| GLK Partner Jeff Korek to Lecture At the North American Brain Injury Society’s 29th Annual Conference on “Legal Issues in Brain Injury” |
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| Jeff Korek, a partner at Gersowitz Libo & Korek, P.C., is a member of a panel of experts who will be speaking about traumatic brain injuries on April 6th through 9th, 2016 at the North American Brain Injury Society’s 29th Annual Conference on “Legal Issues in Brain Injury” at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Tampa, Florida. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the 13th Annual Conference in Brain Injury.
Korek will be addressing the use of lay witnesses. He will be discussing how lay testimony from various “outside of the box” witnesses can be used to overlay or interface with the testimony of brain injury medical experts to explain the realities of traumatic brain injury. Korek’s exceptional legal career and trial experience in traumatic brain injury accidents will provide invaluable information for all participants attending this program.
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| | | New Jersey Affidavit of Merit Statute: Time For a Change? |
| The New Jersey Affidavit of Merit Statute was made law on June 29, 1995 (N.J.SA. 2A.:53A-27). This law was designed to reduce the filing of “frivolous” lawsuits against certain “licensed” professionals.
This law requires that anyone (plaintiff) who is suing a “licensed person” for damages resulting from personal injuries, wrongful death or property damage as a result of malpractice or negligence, to provide the person they are suing (defendant) with an affidavit from an expert in that same field who has the same credentials as the defendant.
Although the Affidavit of Merit Statute was designed with good intentions, it has proven to be an obstacle for many medical malpractice victims. Meeting the requirements of this statute can prohibit most of these injured individuals to seek the justice that they deserve for the injuries they have suffered.
The statute narrows the ability for medical malpractice plaintiffs to obtain experts in medical malpractice cases. The requirements of the statute apply even where the relevant professional licensure laws overlap to some degree. This prohibits doctors, who would otherwise be qualified but for the technicality of the statute, to be an expert in most cases. As a result of the New Jersey Affidavit of Merit Statute, there are many valid medical malpractice cases that are being dismissed on these types of technicalities.
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| Gersowitz Libo & Korek, PC
111 Broadway, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10006
Phone: (212) 385-4410
Toll-free: (800) 529-9997
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