In Scofield v. Avante Contracting Corp., 135 AD3d 929 (2d Dep’t 2016), plaintiff allegedly fell from a ladder while doing HVAC work at a construction project. He had completed the same task using the same ladder in four other rooms without incident. In the final...
In Dotseth vs. First Student, venued in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, plaintiff alleged a traumatic brain injury including, cognitive and memory impairment, as well as neck/back injuries as a result of being rear-ended by our client’s school bus....
In Kowlesar vs. First Transit Hudson County, venued in the Law Division of Hudson County, New Jersey, the firm achieved an extremely favorable settlement – significantly lower than the $6 million pretrial settlement demand – after two days of jury...
LCBF successfully defended Metro-North Railroad in the first claim arising out of the 2013 Spuyten Duyvil train derailment to go to trial. In Herbert v Metro-North Railroad (U.S. Dist. Ct., Southern District of New York), plaintiff, the assistant train conductor,...
An accounting firm, represented by the firm, was accused of misrepresenting to clients that a particular accountant was an owner of the firm and the engagement member on their matters with the firm. LCBF successfully argued that, although the accountant and the firm...
