LCBF recently tried to a successful conclusion a Nassau County case in which a company sued its accounting firm for almost $1 million after its bookkeeper embezzled $684,000 by putting her husband on the payroll. The CPA firm had performed accounting for the defendant...
After the criminal case against him was dismissed, plaintiff filed a civil rights lawsuit against the arresting detectives in the Southern District of New York claiming that he was wrongfully arrested and that the detectives exercised unreasonable use of force,...
In Nussbaum v. Metro-North Commuter R.R., 2015 WL 859565 (2d Cir. 2015), affm 994 F. Supp. 2d 483 (S.D.N.Y. 2014), the Second Circuit restated the general law that a plaintiff who alleges that a defendant created a dangerous condition must prove, not only that the...
In Kaminski v. 924 West End Ave, Inc., the Supreme Court, Kings County, granted summary judgment to a building owner represented by LCBF, dismissing Labor Law §§ 241(6) and 200 claims of plaintiff, who tripped over an electrical cord. The court accepted LCBF’s...
In Fox v. SLS Residential, Inc. (Sup. Ct. Nassau County), the firm obtained summary judgment for an owner and administrator of a psychiatric facility sued by the family of a woman who had been decapitated and dismembered by an out-patient. Previously, the Appellate...
