The firm Gair, Gair, Conason,
Steigman & Mackauf specializes in the most serious and
significant personal injury and general negligence cases.
The firm has long been the top firm for serious personal
injury, wrongful death and
medical malpractice
cases.
The firm has more lawyers selected by
The Best Lawyers in America than any other plaintiff's
personal injury firm in New York. Seven of Gair, Gair,
Conason, Steigman & Mackauf's partners have been listed in the Best
Lawyers in America: Robert Conason, Stephen Mackhauf, Ben Rubinowitz,
Jeffrey Bloom, Anthony Gair, Howard Hershenhorn and Seymour Boyers.
Each of these seven has achieved multiple-million dollars verdicts.
Negligence is the lack of ordinary care. It is a failure to use that
degree of care that a reasonably prudent person would have used
under the same circumstances.
Negligence requires both a reasonably foreseeable danger of injury
to another and conduct that is unreasonable in proportion to that
danger.
There is negligence if a reasonably prudent person could foresee
injury as a result of his or her conduct, and acted unreasonably in
the light of what could be foreseen.
A negligent act or omission is regarded as a cause of an injury only
if it was a substantial factor in brining about the injury, that is,
if it had such an effect in producing the injury that reasonable
people would regard it as a cause of the injury.
A $14,000,000 settlement on behalf of
tenants injured as a result of the negligence of Con Edison when a
pipe exploded.
A $7,000,000 settlement on behalf of five
people who suffered leg injuries in an elevator accident caused
by negligent maintenance of the elevator support cable.
A $1,450,000 for a woman whose doctors were
negligent in failing to diagnose her breast cancer.
A $3,800,000 settlement for a woman who
suffered a severe shoulder injury when a building carelessly
allowed ice to build up and to fall in an area where pedestrians
walk.
A $2,300,000 settlement for a young man
injured as a result of negligent placement of a LILCO power line
contributing to an auto accident. The man suffered head and leg
injuries.
A $2,000,000 settlement on behalf of a
young man whose wife died due to negligent anesthesia care during a
routine D & C.
