Practice Area Category: Wrongful Death

Union carpenter struck by a plate falling from hoist.

Settlement. Security gaps at school led to boy’s fatal exit.

The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C., represented the family of a patient who died last summer at Kings County Hospital settled their wrongful death lawsuit against New York City for $2 million, The New York Times reports.

David Perecman and Adam Hurwitz were successful in recovering $1,750,000 in a wrongful death case against The City of New York. Our client was the mother of a 20-year-old autistic woman who choked to death in school due to alleged inadequate supervision.

Laborer plunged to death after scaffold tipped.