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New York Personal Injury Law Blog by Eric Turkewitz, is an attorney's blog on New York personal injury law, medical malpractice, the civil justice system and cases of interest. Eric Turkewitz has tried personal injury cases to verdict in New York, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess and Albany counties. He has argued appeals in the the..
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
2M ago
Elon Musk has confirmed that, if you put a link in a Twitter post, the post will be throttled. In other words, it is a negative for his algorithm. Twitter, of course, has had numerous problems since Musk bought it and tried to re-brand it as X. Among those problems was the destruction of its moderation system that held trolls ..read more
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
2M ago
Lawyers have been targeted for scams in the past (Lawyers targeted in check scam). But this one is new: Emails that appear to be messages from a court’s electronic filing system. Attorneys are sent an alert with an update that requires immediate action. Then then you get an email with a link containing a virus. As per the federal courts ..read more
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
2M ago
In a letter to the New York Times editor 20 years ago, I referred to the NYC Marathon as a “magnificent piece of urban theatre.” With a one to two million spectators, random New Yorker’s (including cops and firefighters) cheering for middle-of-the-packers, handmade signs in a thousand comical iterations, it a wonder to both to behold and participate in. Some ..read more
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
2M ago
The concept of jaywalking in New York City has always been a joke. It was, until yesterday, illegal. But everyone did it. Even if a cop was standing right in front of you. New Yorkers always valued their “right” to walk where they wanted, as Dustin Hoffman famously yelled in Midnight Cowboy: “Hey, “I’m walkin’ here!” That freedom to walk ..read more
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
2M ago
Across many college campuses now there are various anti-Israel protestors that are, to varying degrees, yelling, hanging signs, occupying walkways and common areas, and on occasion occupying and vandalizing buildings. And, in conduct that is incredibly easy to predict as it parallels much of partisan politics, people will do everything to highlight both the absolute worst (or best) of whatever ..read more
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
3y ago
I wrote about the Feres Doctrine 18 months ago — that being the Supreme Court decision holding that military members couldn’t sue for medical malpractice, even if it occurred in non-combat situations. I won’t repeat it all. Go read the link. The short version is this: Did your stateside barracks burn down? Sorry Charlie. Or in this case, sorry Rudolph Feres. …
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New York Personal Injury Law Blog
4y ago
When the pandemic struck, people stayed home. And when they stayed home, many couldn’t work. And if they could work, it wasn’t the same. To say that had an impact on the justice system would be an understatement. Every conceivable time limit set forth in the law was now a problem. Such as many statutes of limitations. Civl law, criminal …
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New York Personal Injury Law Blog
4y ago
Ashli Babbitt was shot dead on January 6th while crashing through the Capitol in an attempt to stop electoral votes from being counted. Now her Estate wants to sue the Capitol Police and the (as yet unnamed) officer for wrongful death. This is, perhaps, one of the dumber ideas I have heard. Sue the very people charged with defending the …
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New York Personal Injury Law Blog
4y ago
When folks read about frivolous or silly legal claims, they invariably ask: What did that person sue for this time? They never seem to ask, what kind of idiotic defense was raised? Because idiotic defenses don’t make the papers. Until they do. This week the NY Post blared an ugly headline about my hometown high school: New Rochelle High School …
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New York Personal Injury Law Blog
4y ago
The City of Rochester was slammed yesterday by a New York Supreme Court justice for demanding in-person hearings in police brutality cases. And the order was so wide-sweeping that it extended well beyond the police cases at issue to all matters that the City’s Law Department was defending. The issue arose out of summer protests surrounding the death of George …
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