Category Archives: General
Child’s Wrongful Death in Orange County Car Accident May Lead to New Law on Drugged Driving
The 2009 death of three-year-old Sierra Gore was an inestimable tragedy, but perhaps this fatality may raise awareness of the dangers of drugged driving and even provide law enforcement with more tools to identify drugged drivers and hold them accountable when their reckless driving ends in a traffic accident which causes the death of… Read More »
Question of Ownership Determines Liability in Orange County Construction Accident
Last year the attorneys at Dupée & Monroe obtained a judgment of liability in favor of our client who was seriously injured in a construction accident in Orange County. Our client was installing metal roofing on a pole barn being constructed when the purlin he was standing on broke. Our client fell 20 feet… Read More »
In Falling Object Construction Accidents, Lack of Securing Devices is Key
In a construction accident case teeming with factual disputes over how the accident occurred and who was responsible, Dupée & Monroe, as attorneys for the injured plaintiff, were successful in focusing the court’s attention on the one key fact most important to the issue of liability – what type of protection was provided to… Read More »
New York Court Upholds Permanent Driver’s License Ban on "Problem Drivers" with Five Lifetime DWIs
Earlier this year, the New York Supreme Court, Albany County, upheld a new Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) regulation banning certain drivers from obtaining a driver’s license after it has been suspended or revoked for a drug or alcohol-related driving offense, such as Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). Under the new rule, a person who… Read More »
Manslaughter Charges Filed in Orange County Accidental Shooting
Last August 16, 2013, a report of an accidental shooting led the Town of Cornwall and New York State Police to a Salisbury Mills home where they found Kristi L. Babcock fatally injured from a gunshot wound. Babcock was a resident of Cornwall who worked for the Town of New Windsor as a Recreation… Read More »
Goshen Car Crash Takes the Life of Local High School Senior
Earlier this month, Goshen High School senior Lance T. Golubinski was killed when the car he was driving left the road and slammed into a tree at the corner of Gate Schoolhouse Road and Laura Lane. It is not known what caused the crash, although police seem to have ruled out weather conditions as… Read More »
Case Dismissed When New York Woman Injured by Dog Couldn't Show Animal's "Vicious Propensity"
Recently, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a case brought by a woman who was injured when a dog ran into the road while she was riding her bicycle, causing her to collide with the animal and fall from the bike. The woman sued the dog owner… Read More »
Middletown Police Misconduct Case Proceeds to Trial in White Plains Federal Court
A case involving a former City of Middletown police officer who reported on police misconduct which he witnessed has survived the defendant’s latest motion to dismiss, clearing the way for the five-year-old case to finally be heard in federal court. Jason Jackler was a probationary police officer for the City of Middletown in Orange… Read More »
Orange County Woman Free on $100,000 Bail in Hit-And-Run Vehicular Manslaughter Case
Linda Ibrahim of Cornwall recently pled not guilty in an arraignment in Orange County court, where she is charged with several criminal offenses arising out of a hit and run that killed Eric Geter in New Windsor in January. The criminal charges include misdemeanor Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), as well as felony counts of… Read More »
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Not so Mild After All
Although Traumatic Brain Injury affects over 1 million people each year in the United States, it is generally ignored as a major health issue. The term “mild brain injury” can be misleading. The term “mild” is used in reference to the severity of the initial physical trauma that causes the injury. It does not… Read More »