Negligent Security Lawyers in New York
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald handled four of the first negligent security cases in New York. In these four negligent security cases, the defendant was Riverbay Corporation, a cooperative known as Co-Op City in the Bronx. As a result of the managing agent's failure to provide locking doors on the entrance to the buildings, 4 women (2 adults and 2 12 year old girls) were raped.
The 4 cases, which resulted in substantial six figure settlements, were among the first negligent security cases prosecuted in the State of New York. As a result of these cases, Co-Op City installed electro-magnetic locks on its lobby doors, providing much needed security to the tenants.
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Negligent Security Lawsuits in New York
In a "negligent security" case, the plaintiff claims that (s)he was the victim of a crime (usually a rape or other assault) and that the criminal act was made possible because the landowner did not provide proper security (i.e., the door locks to the building were broken; the intercom didn't work; the doorman allowed an intruder to enter, etc.)
In recent years both the Legislature and the Appellate Courts have rolled back some of the initial gains made by negligent security lawyers in New York to hold landowners liable for failure to provide security. At present it is often necessary to apportion the percentage of liability between the landowner who was negligent and the criminal who perpetrated the crime. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald has continued to successfully prosecute meritorious cases resulting in serious injuries from criminal behavior where proper security measures could have prevented the crimes in the first place.
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represents victims of negligent security throughout New York:
- Negligent Security Lawyers New York City
- Negligent Security Lawyers Manhattan
- Negligent Security Lawyers Bronx
- Negligent Secruity Lawyers Long Island
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The jury verdicts reported on this site have, in many cases, been reduced by the Appellate Court or by post trial motions. This is common with jury verdicts. Prior results cannot guarantee or predict a similar outcome on any future matter.
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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, P.C. is a firm of trial lawyers based in New York with a national practice. We are capable of representing clients in every state of the United States. In New York our trial attorneys appear daily in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens and Staten Island (Richmond County). We also appear regularly in the counties of Westchester (Yonkers), Suffolk, Nassau and Orange. We have of counsel attorneys covering Rockland County, Dutchess County, Albany, Buffalo and all other New York counties. In New Jersey we have of counsel attorneys covering the counties of Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, Essex, (Newark), Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Mercer, (Trenton) Camden and Monmouth. We also have a network of of counsel attorneys with whom we work throughout the United States.
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