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Hardworking Plumber of 17 years Receives $500,000 Settlement after Air Compressor Fell on Foot At Construction Site
Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
Glenn S. worked as a plumber for 17 years. While on the job, he and a coworker were moving a 2-foot air compressor on a pallet jack. The coworker guided the pallet jack into debris which caused the compressor to fall off and onto Glenn S.’s left foot. This accident resulted in Glenn S. sustaining three fractures in his left ankle. Due to his injuries, Glenn S. was no longer able to work and had to undergo both surgery and physical therapy.
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A Ukrainian Woman Receives $383,000 Settlement for Leg Injury Thanks to Hill & Moin.
Monday, April 15th, 2019
K.K., a young mother of two children who recently moved here from the Ukraine, was injured when the drain cover in the basement of the apartment building she lived in slid from its normal placement. While K.K had been returning to her apartment from the laundry area of her apartment building when she stepped on the defective drain cover. The drain cover slid from the hole it covered causing K.K.’s foot to fall into the hole. K.K. went to the hospital and was informed she had torn a ligament.
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Dedicated Home Attendant with Knee Injury Receives a $500,000 Settlement After Falling on Sidewalk.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
A.S., an Armenian woman who had been working as a home care attendant for over a decade, had just left one of her client’s homes and was on her way to her next client’s home on a wintery January morning. While walking there she noticed some ice had formed on the sidewalk. While attempting to avoid stepping on the ice, A.S tripped and fell on the unleveled concrete slab of the sidewalk. A.S.’s doctors informed her that she had torn her meniscus.
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Senior Injured At Gym Wins $350,000 Settlement for Elbow Fracture
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Susan H., a 65 year old Home Health Aide business owner, was a regular at her gym. She paid additional to have access to a private training area, where a personal trainer would assist her through workouts. On the day of her accident, Susan H. was walking through the gym when she tripped because of a pile of wires connected to treadmills near a row of stationary bikes that were blocking her walkway. As Susan H. approached the pile of wires, she saw them and attempted to step over them. Unfortunately, because they were piled so high and so haphazardly, her foot became tangled in them causing her to fall to the ground. She suffered a fractured elbow.
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Hill & Moin Obtains $600,000 Award for Elderly Woman Hit by Falling Tree Branch
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
During an afternoon in Brooklyn, L.R., an 88-year-old woman from Ukraine, decided to go for a walk to get some air and pick up some groceries from a local supermarket. After exiting her apartment building to begin her errands, while walking on the sidewalk, a large branch from a tree suddenly struck her. She was knocked to the ground and injured her knee and ankle. (more…)
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Brooklyn Resident Recovers Six-figure Settlement After Fall at Private Residence
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
A 45-year-old father of three, “R.T.,” was a guest at a family dinner when he slipped on a napkin holder carelessly left at the top of a flight of stairs leading to the basement, falling all the way down them. R.T.’s fall resulted in fractures to his humerus, shoulder, elbow, and ribs.
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