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    Subway Trains, Injuries, Tort Claims and Defenses

      •  Ross Sandler

    Early tort law was heavily weighted towards injuries that involved train accidents.  Here in the New York City metropolitan region with its huge dependence on rail transport, the older typical nineteenth century tort claims and defenses continue for injuries caused by subways, commuter lines and train equipment.

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    Tags : CityLaw, injuries, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, subways, Torts, trespass
    Date:01/13/2020
    Category : CityLaw
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    COMMENTARY – Subway Warning Signs: Make Them Tougher

    Ross Sandler

    Ross Sandler, Center for New York City Law Director

    The number of persons killed by contact with subway trains is truly alarming and, worse, consistent year to year. The victims include persons with severe mental problems and drug and alcohol addiction on the one hand, and, on the other hand, adventuresome youths who see romance and challenge in the subways’ dark tunnels, speedy trains and endless tracks. All the deaths are tragedies. (read more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, CityLaw Commentary, injuries, subways
    Date:01/13/2020
    Category : Commentary
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    Sidewalk Claim Reinstated Against City

    Torts  •  Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Entrance to L Train. Image credit: CityLaw.

    Pedestrian slipped and fell on sloped, granite sidewalk, the design for which had been approved by the City. On June 18, 2013, Carolyn J. Trawinski was injured when she slipped and fell on a sloped sidewalk adjacent to the side entrance of a mixed commercial-residential building at 183 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn near the entrance of the L line subway station. The sidewalk was made up of smooth, polished granite, and was wet at the time of the accident. Trawinski suffered multiple injuries to her ankle that required the insertion of eleven screws under general anesthesia. (read more…)

    Tags : FOIL, injuries, L train, sidewalk, slip and fall, sloped sidewalk, Supreme Court
    Date:05/03/2018
    Category : CityLaw
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