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MMP&S Secures Defense Verdict in Motor Vehicle Action
Joseph Puzo secured a defense verdict on liability in New York State Supreme Court, Suffolk County. MMP&S represented a bus company and its driver against the plaintiff's allegations of excessive speed over a speed bump, which allegedly caused the plaintiff to...
MMP&S Secures Dismissal of Nursing Home Malpractice Action on Appeal
Sarah Ziolkowski of MMP&S secured a reversal of a lower court order which had denied, in part, the defendant nursing home’s motion for summary judgment. At the conclusion of discovery, the nursing home had moved the lower court for summary judgment on all claims...
MMP&S Secures Defense Verdict in Florida First-Party Property Trial
Ian Alperstein and Pamela Agudelo obtained a defense verdict for a first-party property insurance company after a one-week jury trial in the County Court of Broward County, Florida. The plaintiff was a homeowner who alleged that elevated winds and tornados during...
MMP&S Expands Litigation and Trial Capabilities with Addition of 15 New Attorneys
MMP&S is pleased to announce that, effective October 1, 2024, it has expanded its litigation and trial capabilities with the addition of the attorneys formerly with Zaklukiewicz, Puzo & Morrissey LLP (“ZPM”) as well as eleven experienced litigation attorneys...
MMP&S Secures a Favorable Appellate Ruling on Due Process Grounds
MMP&S partner Crystal L. Arocha secured a favorable appellate ruling from the State of Florida, Fourth District Court of Appeal, overturning the trial court’s rulings on due process grounds. In the lower court, which entire duration was about 30 days, the...
MMP&S Secures a Complete Defense Verdict in Automobile Liability Case
MMP&S partners Michael J. Lynott and Crystal L. Arocha secured a complete defense verdict in a devastating motor vehicle accident case, where Plaintiff’s vehicle was literally destroyed and was even struck again after the initial accident. Video prior to, during...
MMP&S Wins Summary Judgment Motion Dismissing Premises Liability Action Against Property Owner
Thomas DeGrace, a partner in our Purchase, New York office, secured a decision in New York State Supreme Court, Bronx County granting summary judgment dismissing all claims and crossclaims against our client. MMP&S represented a property owner in a premises...
MMP&S Secures a Reversal in the New York State Appellate Division in Automobile Liability Case
MMP&S partners Lynsay Dyszler and Sarah Ziolkowski secured a complete reversal of a lower court order that denied a motion for summary judgment on the threshold issue of liability on behalf of the client automobile driver. The New York State Appellate Division,...
MMP&S Obtains a Full “No Cause” Defense Verdict in a $15 Million Federal Accounting Malpractice Action
After a five-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, MMP&S partners Andrew Pisanelli and David Montag obtained a full “no cause” defense jury verdict in favor of an accounting firm that had audited a not-for-profit entity that...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Premises Liability / Healthcare Malpractice Trial
Donna Pascucci Day and Niall Harding secured a unanimous defense verdict in the Civil Court of Queens County, New York after a two-week trial. The case was a hybrid premises liability/professional malpractice matter, where it was claimed that our client, a home health...
MMP&S Obtains Dismissal of Trip and Fall Case in Federal Court
Christo Hadjicharalambous of MMP&S’s Woodbury, New York office obtained a dismissal of a potentially high-value trip and fall action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. After the plaintiff failed to appear for her continued...
MMP&S Secures a Complete Reversal in the New York Appellate Division on Coverage Dispute
Sarah Ziolkowski of MMP&S secured the complete reversal of a lower court order that denied an insurer’s motion for summary judgment and refused to declare that the insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify the plaintiffs in an underlying Labor Law case. The...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Assignment of Insurance Benefits Trial
Ian Alperstein and Samantha Reynolds obtained a defense verdict for a first-party property insurance company after a one-week trial in the County Court of Broward County, Florida. Plaintiff was a mold remediation contractor who performed work for our client’s insured...
MMP&S Secures a Reversal in New York’s Appellate Division, First Department on Priority of Coverage
Lorin Donnelly and Sarah Ziolkowski of MMP&S secured a reversal of a lower court order determining the priority of coverage between a general contractor’s primary policy and a subcontractor’s excess policy. The subcontractor’s primary policy afforded additional...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Broward County
Michael Lynott and Samantha Reynolds of MMP&S obtained a complete defense verdict for a property insurance company in Broward County Circuit Court on March 7, 2024, after a four-day jury trial. The Plaintiff alleged breach of contract for denying a claim for...
MMP&S Obtains Another Broward County Defense Verdict
Ian Alperstein and Isha Kumar of MMP&S’s Boca Raton, Florida office obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation in the Circuit Court of Broward County, Florida. The plaintiffs alleged that Citizens breached its insurance contract by...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Broward County Circuit Court
The trial team of Michael J. Lynott and Ian Alperstein achieved a defense verdict after four days of trial in Broward County Circuit Court on December 21, 2023. The trial was before Judge Michelle Towbin-Singer. Lynott and Alperstein were defending the denial of...
MMP&S Obtains Another Defense Verdict in Florida First-Party Property Action
Ian Alperstein and Isha Kumar obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation in the Broward County Court. The Plaintiff alleged that Citizens breached its insurance contract by denying a claim for windstorm damage stemming from Tropical Storm...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in First-Party Property Action
Ian Alperstein and Isha Kumar obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Insurance in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleged that Citizens breached its insurance contract by denying a claim for water damage caused by a one-time plumbing backup and...
MMP&S Prevails In Moped Accident Liability Trial In Kings County, New York.
MMP&S partner James Baden successfully tried a liability-only trial in Kings County, New York. The plaintiff was riding a moped and claimed that our client did not see him and reversed into him while parallel parking. The jury determined the plaintiff was 90% at fault...
Super Lawyers® Names MMP&S Partners in the 2023 Edition
Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden, LLP congratulates our Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for 2023. We are proud to announce that this year we have 16 attorneys who received this recognition. MMP&S is pleased to congratulate our Woodbury, NY Partners Lorin Donnelly,...
MMP&S Prevails on Motion for Summary Judgment, Affirmed on Appeal, and Recouped Defense Costs
MMP&S Miami-based partners, Michael Lynott, Martina Lanfersiek, and Crystal Arocha prevailed on a Motion for Summary Judgment in Indian River County, Florida, on a premises liability case in which the firm represented a residential home builder. The Plaintiff in...
MMP&S Secured Defense Verdict in Miami Dade County Circuit Court
Ian Alperstein and Chauncey Dean obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Insurance in Miami Dade County Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleged that Citizens breached its contract by denying a claim for a wind-created opening in the plaintiff’s roof that led to interior...
MMP&S Prevails in Multi-Vehicle Accident Liability Trial in Florida
Michael Lynott and Crystal Arocha tried a liability-only case in a three-car highway accident case where MMP&S’s client allegedly struck a truck, pushing it into the plaintiff’s lane, striking the plaintiff’s vehicle and causing the plaintiff to drive off the...
MMP&S Secures Defense Verdict in Broward County, Florida
On February 9, 2023, MMP&S trial team of Michael J. Lynott and Ian Alperstein obtained a jury defense verdict for Citizens Insurance Company in Broward County Circuit Court. The claim was for Hurricane Irma which allegedly caused water damage to plaintiff’s home...
New York Governor Vetoes Grieving Families Act
On June 2, 2022, the New York State legislature passed the “Grieving Families Act,” which would have made sweeping changes to New York State’s 175-year-old wrongful death statute (§5-4.1 of New York’s Estate, Powers and Trusts Law) by dramatically expanding the...
MMP&S Defeats Summary Judgment Motion in NY Labor Law Matter
James Baden, a partner in our Purchase, New York office, successfully opposed a plaintiff’s summary judgment motion in a complicated Labor Law matter pending in the New York State Supreme Court, Queens County. The plaintiff was dismantling a scaffold, when he fell 10...
Super Lawyers® Names MMP&S Partners in the 2022 Edition
Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden, LLP is pleased to congratulate our partners Christopher Albanese, Richard Davies, Kevin Dmochowsky, Lorin Donnelly, Daniel Rucket and Susan Stromberg for being named Super Lawyers®, and Alicia Gross, Niall Harding, Kenneth...
MMP&S Secures Two Nominal Settlements Before Florida Trials
Michael Lynott of MMP&S’s Miami office and Jennifer Noud-Duarte of MMP&S’s Boca Raton office obtained two favorable settlements for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) on the eve of one trial and the first day of another. The night before a...
MMP&S Prevails on Motion for Summary Judgment in Miami-Dade County
Jennifer Noud-Duarte of MMP&S’s Boca Raton office prevailed on a summary judgment motion in a breach of contract action involving a water leak. Judge Elijah A. Levitt in the County Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County adopted our...