Practice Areas: Premises Liability

• Gordon & Silber has been defending negligence cases case since 1979, including, automobile accidents, slip and falls, recreational torts, food liability, and security/assault cases.
• G&S provides clients with analysis of liability and damages in the first substantive report and provides updated contemporaneous reports thereafter.
• Cases are assigned to partners or associates with experience in that discipline (automobile liability, recreation, food liability, indemnity issues, etc.) and based on the matter's complexity and exposure.
• G&S partners and associates have a high degree of medical expertise and resources due to firm's extensive medical malpractice background.
• The firm retains 3 medically trained paralegals including 2 registered nurses, who provide an unparalleled degree of cost effective medical analysis, which allow our attorneys to consistently challenge cases on the medicine.
• The premises liability group also handles non-asbestos toxic tort claims such as lead paint, mold firm.

Intentional Torts

Gordon & Silber frequently defends land owners and operators for the intentional or criminal acts of third-parties.

G&S fully utilizes the scope and power of CPLR Article 16 to pass liability to the alleged tortfeasor.

Where the intentional tort is committed by the assured's employee, G&S works with the client to make a careful and deliberate early analysis whether to defend the employee or recast the litigation as one for negligent hiring, supervision and retention.

Lead Paint

Gordon & Silber has spent more than a decade aggressively defending lead paint cases.

G&S recently obtained summary judgment for a managing agent on the grounds it did not exclusively manage the building, a decision that was affirmed by the Appellate Division.

G&S recently convinced a Bronx judge that Department of Health testing results were unreliable since the calibration results of the equipment indicated the machine was not recording data accurately.

G&S aggressively disputes the causative link between the exposure and claimed injuries (e.g. finding alternative exposures or explanations such as early child hypoxia or in utero lead exposure from the mother).

 
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