Defense Verdict in Automobile Collision Case

In a matter tried before Justice Valerie Brathwaite-Nelson of the Supreme Court, Queens County, Ms. Maloney obtained a defense verdict on behalf of the owner and driver of an automobile involved in a two-car collision that occurred within the intersection at 81st Avenue and Little Neck Parkway in Queens. The intersection had a traffic control signal and both drivers claimed to have had the light in their favor. The jury found 100% liability against the co-defendant driver and owner. Plaintiff sustained a left-shoulder dislocation, and comminuted and angulated fracture of the scapular blade, requiring surgery.