| 1/4/2012 Patrick Brophy Presents "Appellate Advocacy " at New York County Lawyers Association Patrick Brophy presented a CLE program on appellate advocacy to attendees at December's Bridge-The-Gap CLE program at New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA). The program was a start-to-finish roadmap . . . |
| 1/4/2012 Rod Coyne, Anthony Martine & Tim Gallagher Lead Ethics Panel Discussion Partner Rod Coyne chaired, and partners Anthony Martine and Tim Gallagher served together with New York Supreme Court Justice George J. Silver as panelists on, a panel discussion on Ethical Considerations . . . |
| 11/30/2011 Patrick Brophy Wins at Appellate Division in Property Damage-Completed Operations Additional Insured Coverage Dispute In the insurance coverage contest in 492 Kings Realty, LLC v. 506 Kings, LLC, 88 A.D.3d 941, 931 N.Y.S.2d 671 (2nd Dep’t 2011), our client, defendant 506 Kings, owned the site adjacent to the plaintiff’s . . . |
| 11/11/2011 Anthony Martine Wins Defense Verdict In Swartz v. Nagori, tried this October in Supreme Court, Richmond County, the plaintiff was riding a bicycle against the flow of traffic on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island when she was struck by an . . . |
| 7/11/2011 Patrick Brophy and Bill Gallagher Win in Insurance Coverage Lititgation in Southern District of New York and Second Circuit Court of Appeals In June of this year, in the complex insurance coverage matter of General Star National Insurance Company v. Universal Fabricators, Inc., Patrick Brophy and Bill Gallagher prevailed at the Second Circuit . . . |
| 6/14/2011 Paul Bonsignore and Kristina Scotto Win Dismissal of Medical Malpractice-Wrongful Death Action In Public Administrator as Administratrix of the Estate of Ndregjoni v. Chitre, et al., plaintiff’s decedent, age 35 and a mother of three young children when she passed away, was admitted to Victory . . . |
| 4/12/2011 Patrick Brophy and Andrew Showers Win Dismissal of Construction Accident Indemnification Claims at Appellate Division In Castellon v. Reinsberg et al., plaintiff brought Labor Law claims against construction site owner Reinsberg and construction manager SMI Construction Management (SMI), and SMI in turn sued plaintiff's . . . |
| 6/22/2010 Rod Coyne and Lou Martine Win Dismissal of Medical Malpractice Claims at Appellate Division Simmons v. Brooklyn Hospital Center et al. was a serious medical malpractice action brought against several defendant medical facilities and physicians, including our client, an ob/gyn, for a child born . . . |
| 4/20/2010 Andrew Showers Wins with Jury and Appellate Division In the matter of Sherald Ward versus Deborah Watson and Charles Cappetta, associate Andrew D. Showers obtained a defense verdict after a two day liability trial in Kings County Supreme Court. The jury . . . |
| 3/1/2010 Patrick Brophy Wins Dismissal of Appeal in Construction Breach of Contract Action at Court of Appeals We have been privileged to provide appellate representation in the Appellate Division First Department and at the Court of Appeals to the Plaintiff in Gartech Electrical Contracting Corp. v. Coastal Electric . . . |
| 2/23/2010 Paul Bonsignore Wins Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In July 2009 before the Hon. Dominic R. Massaro and a jury in the Supreme Court, Bronx County, Paul Bonsignore successfully tried the medical malpractice case of Bland v. Montefiore Medical Center, et. . . . |
| 2/23/2010 Andrew Showers Gets Auto Damages Defense Verdict In February 2010 before the Hon. Reginald A Boddie and a jury in Civil Court, Kings County, Andrew Showers won a defense verdict in the automobile accident/no-fault threshold case of Franklin v. Guerrier. . . . |
| 11/5/2009 Patrick Brophy prevails at Court of Appeals on award of summary judgment to defendant building owner in tenant shower scalding case In Eva Flores v. Langsam Property Services Corp., the Firm brought a motion for summary judgment for its client, who were owners and managers of an apartment building, in a case brought by a plaintiff . . . |
| 4/12/2008 Timothy D. Gallagher successfully defends $5,000,000 damages claim at trial In the case of Rodriguez v. The City of New York, et. al., tried before Kings County Judge, Hon. Martin Solomon, Timothy successfully defended the case. The case was a damages only trial as plaintiff . . . |
| 3/13/2008 Anthony Martine Wins Defense Verdict In the case Morilla v. Havisward, tried before Kings County Judge, Hon. Larry Martin, Anthony successfully defended the case on damages. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defense finding that . . . |
| 1/25/2008 Patrick Brophy Wins Appeal Reversing Jury Verdict In Franco v. Jay-Cee of New York Corp., a Labor Law § 241(6) case, Patrick Brophy convinced a unanimous Appellate Division, First Department panel that expert witnesses invaded the trial court’s . . . |