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Partner Joe Petka defended a local university in a premises jury trial. The plaintiff, a fifty-four-year-old homemaker, went to the university’s bursar’s office to pay a tuition bill. While walking on the campus, she crossed a plot of land that the university did not technically own and tripped and fell on a defect in the […]

GMR Partner Warren Holland obtained a defense verdict in a Nassau County New Labor Law case.  The Plaintiff was a town plumbing inspector who fell into an open trench on Warren’s client’s property.  He allegedly sustained a knee injury which resulted in surgery.  At trial, Plaintiff argued that Warren’s client should be held liable for […]

Robert Stein and Christopher Scott have won dismissal of all claims against their client in a fall from scaffolding case, resulting in catastrophic injuries to Plaintiff, rendering him a paraplegic. Plaintiff, an employee of a subcontractor, fell from scaffolding resulting in a severed thoracic spine. GMR’s client had won the development rights to a City […]

Samantha prevailed on a motion for summary judgment dismissing all claims against our client in a multi-party Westchester County, NY  construction defect action. The homeowner Plaintiffs brought an action against their architect and general contractor for breach of contract and negligence. After years of litigation, the general contractor brought a third-party action against multiple subcontractors, […]

In two separate appellate cases before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, Partner Eamon Merrigan successfully argued that the trial court victories obtained on behalf of GMR clients should stand. The first case involved a slip and fall. Plaintiff had parked her car in front of GMR client-Defendants’ house and slipped and fell on snow and ice […]