Michael Morgenstern

The plaintiff was a thirty-eight-year-old woman who was a new member of the health club. She claimed that there was insufficient rubber matting in a locker room shower. The plaintiff said that water from the shower made the floor wet…

This case involves a thirty-five-year-old male employee of a city transportation system in the Northwest. His job required him to drive a very large pickup truck to and from various job sites. The door sill to the truck cab was…

This equipment design case involves an improper footing on a rented aluminum extension ladder, which caused an injury. In June 2013, the plaintiff, a thirty-six-year-old professional painter in Oregon, was on a 32-foot extension ladder. He set up the ladder on…

This case concerns a house that was sold without any disclosure of several prior instances of flooding, thus misrepresenting its value. The home was sold in August, 2013, and was subject to massive flooding a little more than a month…

This case takes place in Rhode Island and involves a plaintiff who was a residential counselor at a private level 14 facility operated by a high profile children’s mental health care concern. The facility serviced residents who were placed by…

A Florida teenager, 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, was sentenced to life in prison without parole by St. Lucie County Judge Robert R. Makemson. This, despite the fact that two expert witnesses testified that Hadley was in no way acting as an…

This case involves a sixteen-year-old high school student who sustained a serious and permanent injury to her right eye after being struck by a field hockey ball during gym class. The students were never issued protective head/eye gear and no…

This is a premise liability case happened in New Mexico where a bar and restaurant that sponsors an amateur dart throwing team was involved in a dart throwing accident. An amateur dart thrower over threw her target getting the dart…

This case involves a worker who was seriously injured in an accident on the job and who subsequently died from those injuries. The plaintiff-decedent had been hired as a temporary worker for a waste disposal company. The employment was obtained through…

This case involves an alleged Ponzi scheme at a hedge fund in which approximately 30 investors lost between $250,000 and $300,000 each, for total losses of about $10 million. The fund’s investment manager chose to invest in unknown companies, rather…