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...
In Vega v. Metropolitan Transp. Auth., 133 A.D.3d 518 (1st Dep’t 2015), the First Department dismissed RSD claims based upon the outcome of a Workers Compensation case. Plaintiff contended that his finger was crushed when a coworker operating an excavator...
LCBF obtained a defense verdict in Eugene v Skyline Restoration, Inc. (Supreme Court, Queens County), where plaintiff claimed that the defendant’s acidic-based solution used to clean a hi-rise building’s brick facade fell into his eye. LCBF argued that...
LCBF obtained a temporary stay from the appellate division of a $5 million attachment order entered by a Kings County Supreme Court justice in an assisted living facility litigation.