On June 14, 2019, Rizwan Sharif injured his right foot at a construction site in Queens when he slipped and fell from an eight foot tall chain link fence he’d been instructed to measure. Mr. Sharif, then 34 years old,
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In 2013, Mario Mujica, then 29 years old, was erroneously released prematurely from prison after serving all but a week of a negotiated plea agreement to serve six months for a drug offense. On October 28, 2013, he voluntarily surrendered…
On May 21, 2016, a 14 year old girl (N.Y.) attended a sleepover at a friend’s house in Springfield, New York. The house was owned by the friend’s parents, Allan and Melissa Manikas. During the night, N.Y. was allegedly raped…
On September 28, 2010, Bei Yang’s obstetricians delivered her child at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. An episiotomy was performed during the vaginal delivery that allegedly caused a fourth-degree laceration that was improperly repaired resulting in a rectovaginal fistula.
Ms. Yang…