Richard Gurfein, as Captain of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association's Ryder Cup team, led his golfers to their first victory over New Jersey in four years.
MR. GURFEIN IS A PAST PRESIDENT OF THE STATE TRIAL LAWYERS
Almost 40 years ago, Richard Gurfein made a career jump from teacher to lawyer, but he still hopes he can teach people a few things. Gurfein became president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association in 1995 with hopes of improving the public’s image of lawyers.
11 YEAR OLD ACCIDENT VICTIM TURNS TO LIFE OF CRIME
A State Supreme Court jury accepted the contention that injuries suffered in a roadway accident led an 11-year-old Bronx boy into a life of crime and yesterday awarded him $950,000 in an injury suit.
In a landmark decision on products liability, the New York County Supreme Court secured a plaintiff's rights to present evidence supporting the need for manufacturers to correct or instruct consumers about serious safety defects in their products after the sale.
A Highland Mills, N.Y. record press operator whose hand and wrist were caught and crushed was awarded $1.5 million in damages yesterday by a Manhattan Federal Court jury at the end of a four-week trial before Judge Morris Lasker .
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PRODUCT Liability
“If the child’s injury is caused by a dangerous product,” he added, “it could result in an action against the manufacturer and anyone else who participated in putting the product into the ’stream of commerce.
MEDICAL Malpractice
Is this not cause for medical malpractice if any of the unsuspecting patients got sicker, or died, because the test they had taken hadn’t been read by their doctor?
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No workdays are normal on a construction site. Based on years of experience handling cases for hardhats injured and killed in the line of duty, that construction sites are never normal.