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D. Carl Lustig III has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2016 in Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs. He was selected after exhaustive and rigorous peer-review surveys by top attorneys. Inclusion is regarded as one of the highest standards in legal excellence.

Arye, Lustig & Sassower, P.C. announces that Mitchell Sassower and D. Carl Lustig III have been selected to the 2014 New York Super Lawyers list. Both attorneys have been named to the list for multiple years.

D. Carl Lustig III has started legal proceedings on behalf of the widow of a worker who was killed due to the collapse of a concrete wall being poured to create a mock-up for a construction project to modernize New York City's water supply system. A Notice of Claim has been filed on the woman's behalf.

Arye, Lustig & Sassower, P.C., announces that Mitchell Sassower and D. Carl Lustig III have been selected to the 2013 New York Super Lawyers list.

The Manhattan law firm Arye, Lustig & Sassower, P.C., is pleased to announce that D. Carl Lustig III has been selected to the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in New York state by The National Trial Lawyers for 2013. Mr. Lustig is a personal injury lawyer named to the list for three consecutive years.

The law firm of Arye, Lustig & Sassower, P.C. sadly announces the passing of our founding partner, Leonard A. Arye, Esq., on June 9, 2013. Mr. Arye practiced plaintiff's personal injury law in New York City for over 50 years before his retirement. He had a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest trial lawyers in the New York Metropolitan area. He was a consummate lawyer, mentor, and friend.

D. Carl Lustig III has been invited by the First Judicial District Administrative Judge for Civil Matters, Sherry Klein Heitler, to join the newly created Medical Malpractice Advisory Committee for the Supreme Court, New York County. This committee, comprised of justices who preside over Supreme Court medical malpractice trials and attorneys who actively try them, will serve to provide advice and solutions on the myriad of procedural and logistical issues that have arisen and that will continue to arise in pending and future medical malpractice cases in New York County.

Mitchell J. Sassower had a Labor Law article recently published in the January 2012 New York Law Journal. The article's title is "Recent Labor Law §240 Decisions Don't Go Far Enough in Protecting Workers."

D. Carl Lustig III was recently renamed The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers in New York state for 2012.

As announced in The New York Times Magazine (October 2, 2011), Mitchell J. Sassower and D. Carl Lustig III were selected as New York Super Lawyers for 2011. Attorneys selected to the prestigious New York Super Lawyers list represent only 5 percent of all lawyers practicing in New York. The rigorous selection process involves peer nominations, independent research, and evaluation by a "blue ribbon panel" of lawyers.

D. Carl Lustig III lectured at the New York City Bar Association on September 13h, 2011, in their trial continuing legal education seminar on trials of civil cases. He lectured on Opening Statements, Direct Examinations, and Summations.

Mitchell J. Sassower lectured at the New York State Trial Lawyers Association on March 23, 2011, on "Making and Defending Motions for Summary Judgment in Labor Law Cases" as part of a seminar on recent developments in Labor Law.

Here are some of our firm’s recent verdicts and settlements.

$400,000 settlement for medical malpractice for a 29-year-old woman who underwent prolonged labor with uterine atony due to a delay in performing a C-section, resulting in post-Cesarean hemorrhage that required supracervical hysterectomy.

$1.4 million settlement for a motor vehicle accident for a 49-year-old pedestrian struck by a vehicle that disobeyed a red traffic signal, struck another vehicle and struck our client. Our client suffered injuries to her cervical spine, lumbar spine, knee, and ankle, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression.

$4 million settlement for medical malpractice for a 47-year-old woman who underwent significant but uneventful abdominal surgery; she suffered a stroke with hemiparesis when the hospital incorrectly placed a triple-lumen catheter in her carotid artery rather than her jugular vein.

$4 million settlement for construction accident for 30-year-old elevator mechanic's helper who suffered an electric shock while working "live" on an elevator modernization project, with resulting injuries to his left shoulder, back, and neck, as well as neuropsychiatric and emotional disorders.

$725,000.00 settlement for premises liability for a 60-year-old woman who slipped on a slippery, waxed floor in the basement of the apartment building where she lived and suffered a comminuted fracture of the patella (knee cap) that required surgery. Although the building's maintenance staff claimed that appropriate warning signs were in place, this was disputed by our client.

A $2.7 million settlement for a construction accident of a 28-year-old apprentice electrician struck in the head by a cement-filled shovel that was accidentally dropped from a higher floor of the job site. Our client (who thankfully was wearing a hard hat) suffered neck injuries, including a compression fracture of the C-5 vertebra and cervical disc herniations. He also suffered a severe psychiatric reaction, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Contact Arye Lustig & Sassower PC for a free consultation regarding your injury matter.