On June 12, 2018, John Freeman of the Pennsylvania/South Jersey office of Russo & Toner LLP won summary judgment in Hicks v. FJP Services, a motor vehicle case in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in which Plaintiff claimed damages in excess of $50,000. The Plaintiff claimed that he suffered a serious left retina injury when his left eye was struck by a rock, which he claimed flew off the insured’s truck and through Plaintiff’s open driver-side window. However, a record authored by Plaintiff’s ophthalmologist indicated that when Plaintiff first consulted her nine days after the accident, she determined that Plaintiff’s left eye issues were chronic and longstanding. She opined that they pre-
On June 7, 2018, after a four-day liability trial, John Komar secured a defense verdict for our clients in the case of McKenzie v. Holy Cab in Civil Court, Queens County. The case involved two childhood girlfriends, one who lives in Manhattan and works in the television industry as an onset hairdresser, and the other who was visiting from Florida to celebrate her birthday. After a day in the city and a night on the town the two friends got into our client’s taxi at about 2 A.M. for a ride home from the lower east side to the upper west side. While proceeding westbound on Houston Street the taxi was hit by the operator of a GMC Canyon pickup truck who was making a left turn from the eastb
On April 30, 2018, Mehmet Gokce obtains a defense verdict on liability in the case of Alaa Abuseif v. Joseph Bojman and Abdul Awal, Index No. 18239/2013. Plaintiff alleged that, as he drove northbound on 6th Avenue in New York City, he was suddenly and violently rear-ended by our driver. Our driver was precluded from testifying so the jury would never hear our version of the accident which was that plaintiff cut him off from the left. The only evidence we had to work with in defending the matter was the police report wherein plaintiff stated to the police that he was merging to the left when the accident happened and an MV-104 that plaintiff signed two days after the accident wherein the
