June 11, 2025

Partner Dave Pallai secured a defense verdict in Supreme Court, Nassau County on behalf of a local municipality. Plaintiff claimed to have been injured as the result of a motor vehicle accident with a municipal snow plow during the course of an ongoing storm. Although the jury found that the municipal vehicle did not properly yield upon entering the intersection where the accident occurred, the failure to do so was not “reckless” as required by Sec. 1103(b) of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, thus exempting the defendant from liability.

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