Schulman Blitz, LLP’s client was a passenger in her friend’s jeep when a New York City Department of Sanitation truck made a left turn in front of their Jeep which was proceeding straight through a Brooklyn intersection, causing a devastating collision.As a result of the crash, our client suffered a concussion, severe facial lacerations, and a fracture to her wrist. Our client also suffered a carpal tunnel injury to her wrist which required surgery. Carpal Tunnel release surgery is done with an endoscope, a thin flexible tube with a camera attached. The endoscope is guided through a small incision made at either the wrist or palm. The endoscope allows the doctor to see the transverse carpal ligament which is then cut, releasing pressure on the median nerve, relieving carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms. After many years of litigation, on the eve of trial, Justin Blitz, Esq. settled our client’s case for $275,000.

Schulman Blitz, LLP’s client, a grandfather and owner of an auto body shop in Astoria, was on his way to his sister’s apartment when he tripped and fell on a broken sidewalk in front of a hotel. As a result of the fall, he tore the rotator cuff in his shoulder, requiring a surgical repair which included the insertion of surgical anchors. During the course of the litigation, Schulman Blitz, LLP was able to prove that the sidewalk defect that caused our client to fall existed for at least 9 years before the accident took place and the hotel’s owners took no steps to try to repair the defect. page6image11752 page6image11912 Shortly before the trial was scheduled to begin, Stephanie Mastrocola, Esq. and Justin Blitz, Esq. settled the case at an out of court mediation for $180,000 with the insurance company for the hotel.

On February 2, 2014, Schulman Blitz, LLP‘s client and a group of his friends were attending a bachelor party in Manhattan.  After the festivities had concluded, our client and his friends were on a party bus on their way home to Long Island. While driving eastbound on the Long Island Expressway, the party bus driver stopped the bus in right hand lane of travel and directed our client and the other passengers to get off the bus in order to assist a Police Officer from the NYPD’s Mounted Unit whose horse trailer had become detached from his NYPD vehicle and was disabled on the right hand shoulder of the LIE. Justin Blitz, Esq. and Fred Schulman, Esq. settled our client’s case for $1,300,000,00.

Although the majority of Schulman Blitz, LLP‘s cases are venued in the State of New York, we also represent injured victims throughout the country. In this case, our clients (a married couple) were traveling on Interstate 80 in New Jersey when their car was hit in the rear by a truck. The impact was very heavy, and it caused our clients to sustain significant injuries. After the crash, our clients were taken by ambulance to a local hospital where they were treated for their injuries. The husband (who was driving) sustained injuries to his back and shoulder. His wife (the passenger) sustained injuries her to spine. Justin Blitz, Esq.settled our clients’ case with the insurance company for the truck before a lawsuit was commenced for $155,000.00. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

Our client, a 57 years old New York City public school teacher, was taking a shower in her Bronx apartment one morning. She was getting ready to go to work when the soap dish in her shower collapsed off the wall, due to a recurring leak which her landlord knew about and failed to fix. The soap dish landed on her ankle, causing a severe injury. The building’s owner had known about this dangerous condition and refused to repair it for many years prior to the incident. Our client had lived in the apartment where the incident occurred for over twenty years. She raised her two children in the apartment. Complaints about the leak began as early as 2008, when the condition continued to worsen, and despite her complaints, the landlord did not fix the leak which ultimately caused the soap dish to collapse. After the incident occurred, our client went immediately to emergency room at Bronx Lebanon Hospital and was diagnosed with a ruptured tibia tendon in her ankle, which required surgery to repair. Immediately after commencing the lawsuit, and within one year of the incident occurring, Justin Blitz, Esq. settled the case for $190,000.00. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

On Valentine’s Day in 2014, our client had finished his job as a construction worker and was returning to his apartment after buying flowers for his wife, when he slipped and fell on a poorly shoveled, icy sidewalk in front of his apartment building in Brooklyn.  As a result of the fall, he sustained multiple severe fractures to his elbow that required two surgeries and prevented him from continuing to work in the construction industry, which he had worked in for over twenty years. Schulman Blitz, LLP retained a weather expert, a vocational rehabilitation expert, a life care planner and an economist, all in an effort to both prove the defendants’ negligence and establish the extent and severity of the damages that the injury caused to our client as well as his ability to work in the future. At a private mediation one week before the trial was scheduled to begin, Schulman Blitz, LLP showed a film that we put together, which included video footage of the icy condition that caused the fall, and an audio recording of a witness statement dubbed over the video, as well as Google map images depicting the location of the incident. After a very contentious litigation that lasted close to three years,  Justin Blitz, Esq. settled our client’s case for $848,500.00. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

Fred Schulman, Esq. was recognized in the New York Times as one of the “Top 100” Lawyers in the entire New York Metro area for the second year in a row. Fred was also named to the Super Lawyer list for the fifth year in a row. Fred is honored to be recognized as one of 2017’s most respected lawyers in the country and to be listed as one of the top 5%  of the lawyers in New York. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

We are excited to report that Justin Blitz, Esq. was selected for the 4th year in a row to the Super Lawyers New York Metro Rising Stars list (2.5% in the state). Schulman Blitz, LLP is proud of the amazing results we obtain for our clients and we are honored of our peers recognition. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

Our client, a 71 year old woman, was crossing Broadway at 71st Street in Manhattan when she was struck by a bicycle messenger who was employed by a Manhattan-based courier and messenger company. Our client sustained multiple fractures as a result of being struck by the bicyclist, including fractures to her face and her pelvis. Schulman Blitz, LLP settled the case for $600,000.00 on the eve of trial. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

Our client, a 66 year old woman, had left her home in the Bronx and was driving her car on her way to meet some friends.  She stopped at a red light at the intersection of East 222nd Street at White Plains Road. When the light turned green, she began to proceed into the intersection, when her car was struck by a sanitation truck that suddenly and without warning began to back up into the the middle of intersection. As a result of the crash, our client sustained injuries to her lower back, which required a spinal fusion surgery. While litigation was ongoing, Justin Blitz, Esq. was able to procure a settlement for our client in the amount of $590,000. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

Christie Whitman, when she led the Environmental Protection Agency, made “misleading statements of safety” about the air quality near the World Trade Center in the days after the Sept. 11 attack and may have put the public in danger, a federal judge found yesterday. The pointed criticism of Mrs. Whitman came in a ruling by the judge, Deborah A. Batts of Federal District Court in Manhattan, in a 2004 class action lawsuit on behalf of residents and schoolchildren from downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn who say they were exposed to air contamination inside buildings near the trade center. The suit, against Mrs. Whitman, other former and current E.P.A. officials and the agency itself, charges that they failed to warn people of dangerous materials in the air and then failed to carry out an adequate cleanup. The plaintiffs are seeking monetary damages and want the judge to order a thorough cleaning. In her ruling, Judge Batts decided not to dismiss the case against Mrs. Whitman, who is being sued both as former administrator of the E.P.A. and as an individual. As a legal matter, the ruling established that the suit’s charges were well-documented and troubling enough to meet a legal standard to go forward. But Judge Batts also criticized Mrs. Whitman’s performance in the days after the collapse of the towers unleashed, by the E.P.A.’s estimates, one million tons of dust on lower Manhattan and beyond. “The allegations in this case of Whitman’s reassuring and misleading statements of safety after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are without question conscience-shocking,” Judge Batts said. Calls to the Whitman Strategy Group, Mrs. Whitman’s current business, and to Glenn S. Greene, the Justice Department lawyer who is representing her and the E.P.A. in the case, were not immediately returned. Mrs. Whitman, a former New Jersey governor, was administrator of the E.P.A. from 2001 to 2003. Mrs. Whitman knew that the towers’ destruction had released huge amounts of hazardous emissions, Judge Batts found. But as early as Sept. 13, Mrs. Whitman and the agency put out press releases saying that the air near ground zero was relatively safe and that there were “no significant levels” of asbestos dust in the air. They gave a green light for residents to return to their homes near the trade center site. “By these actions,” Judge Batts wrote, Mrs. Whitman “increased, and may have in fact created, the danger” to people living and working near the trade center. Judge Batts said that Mrs. Whitman was not entitled to immunity because she was a public official. Judge Batts allowed the suit to proceed on some counts against the E.P.A. She dismissed claims against Marianne L. Horinko, an assistant administrator of the E.P.A. at the time. Lawyers for the plaintiffs were “very gratified that the court has recognized that the E.P.A. failed in its obligation to protect the residents of downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn,” said Justin Blitz, a lead lawyer on the case. In a statement yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called the E.P.A.’s conduct “outrageous.” “New Yorkers were depending on the federal government to provide them with accurate information about the air they were breathing,” she said. “I continue to believe that the White House owes New Yorkers an explanation.” About 2,000 tons of asbestos and 424,000 tons of concrete were used to build the towers, and when they came crashing down they released dust laden with toxins. After an expert panel failed last year to settle on a method for organizing an E.P.A. cleanup, the agency said it would proceed anyway with limited testing and cleaning of apartments in downtown Manhattan below Canal Street. Click Here to view the story on the NY Times. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.

Justin Blitz, Esq. got a $2.3 million verdict from a Bronx jury that found the landlord of an Elder Avenue building liable for $2.3 million to a former tenant injured when he was attacked inside the lobby of the building. Raymundo Tehozol, 37 years old at the time of the attack, was a tenant residing at 1151 Elder Avenue, when he was beaten with a baseball bat by two unknown attackers. As a result of the attack, Mr. Tehozol suffered an epidural hematoma requiring a craniotomy and a fractured clavicle. See Tehozol v. Anand Realty, et al, Bronx County Index Number 21476/2003. Justin Blitz, Esq. of the Manhattan law firm that represented Mr. Tehozol, proved during the two-week trial that there had been several similar attacks in the building and that the locks to the lobby doors had been broken for months before the attack. Mr. Blitz also showed that the landlord did nothing to fix the doors or otherwise provide even minimal security for the building’s tenants. In fact, during the trial the jury heard from two other tenants who had been robbed prior to the attack on Mr. Tehozol. Despite the overwhelming testimony to the contrary, the landlord maintained he knew nothing about prior attacks or broken lobby door locks. After four hours of deliberation the jury returned a unanimous verdict for Mr. Tehozol totaling $2,300,000. Contact Blitz Law Group LLP today.