Sketches of Court: MVA damage award may be highest in NY this year
In this courtroom sketch, Hon. Loren Baily-Schiffman listens as plaintiff attorney Paul Edelstein (standing, right) of the law firm The Edelsteins, Faegenburg & Brown LLP conducts a direct examination during the motor vehicle accident trial of Arkadiy Korsunskiy v. Careful Bus Service Inc. Co-counsel to Edelstein is Daniel Thomas (seated, right) of the law offices of Daniel A. Thomas, PC.
The plaintiff, a 63 year old ambulette driver at the time of the February 2008 accident, was at the wheel when his vehicle was rear-ended by the defendant’s bus on the Prospect Expressway. (A third vehicle may have been involved, in the lead, who did not stop and was never identified.)
The plaintiff was removed to Lutheran Medical Center with hip and head trauma, and he was cleared by their emergency team for surgery. Orthopoedic surgeon Thomas Lyon (standing, center) operated on plaintiff’s femural break. Dr. Lyon testified in court as witness for the plaintiff.