New York’s Court of Appeals Gives New York Personal Injury Lawyers and Their Clients A Big Gift

Warning:  This blog may be a little too “legalese” for many of my readers, but it is an important development in New York personal injury law, so I feel compelled to write about it for my many lawyer-readers and others with a more-than-casual interest in the law.  The new development is a case from New York’s top Court — the Court of Appeals — called “Rodriguez v. City of New York”. The particular facts of that case don’t matter for our purpose here.  So I am not even going to talk about them.  Here’s what you need to know:  Whenever we New York personal injury lawyers sue a defendant for negligence, there comes a point, usually after depositions, when we consider making a “summary judgment motion on liability”.  That means we are asking the Judge – without a jury – to rule that the evidence so clearly shows the defendant was negligent that the Judge – without even…

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