New York Apartment Building Slip and Fall Testimonial – David Resnick & Associates, P.C.

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0:088 seconds Living in New York City is just pretty chaotic, but it's it's fun. It's adventurous. You know, you can't go
0:1616 seconds wrong. You know, this is home. So, every day is a is a new sound. It's a new beat. Every day is something new. I love New York City.
0:2828 seconds When I first met Sequasia, she had slipped and fell in the basement of her building. And this was many years ago.
0:3737 seconds She was I'm not even sure she was 20 years old, maybe 21 years old at the time. She was a kid. And she really didn't have a lot of guidance as to what
0:4545 seconds she was going to do or what she should do.
0:5555 seconds I have a friend that lives on the third floor and I happened to be going to her house and when I went to her house um in
1:021 minute, 2 seconds the staircase that we were in um there was some kind of uh liquid on the floor I guess I didn't notice I had on like some flip-flops and when I'm you know
1:111 minute, 11 seconds going to the house I guess somehow you know I slipped back almost kind of slipped down the stairs at that point um
1:181 minute, 18 seconds I was able to get myself up um I was able to go downstairs and let somebody know. And um their response was, "It's
1:271 minute, 27 seconds not my problem. I'm not maintenance. I don't do that." You know, I'm security.
1:311 minute, 31 seconds Nobody even really asked me, "Hey, are you okay? Can I help you with
1:381 minute, 38 seconds anything?" I remember finding another lawyer and he didn't you I don't like when people just just feel like, "Oh, well, I like I don't care, you know?"
1:481 minute, 48 seconds And David did make me feel that way. He made me feel like, you know, like I don't know, like he was a dad or something. Like he just wanted to see me
1:551 minute, 55 seconds be okay, you know? So that's what made me comfortable to even go with him at all. I There's plenty of lawyers out
2:042 minutes, 4 seconds here, so I I want to feel have somebody that I'm comfortable with being that we might be in this thing for some time together, you know? I just I really appreciate him.
2:152 minutes, 15 seconds The case took a long time, as a lot of these cases do, when the insurance company for the building really fights
2:222 minutes, 22 seconds it and doesn't want to pay and maybe doesn't believe that the client deserves anything. So, we fought tooth and nail
2:302 minutes, 30 seconds on her case. And we went all the way to trial for her. We did what is rarely done. We drew a line in the sand and
2:382 minutes, 38 seconds said, "We are going to let the jury decide this case." The jury came back with three times more than what they had offered. And they had offered a
2:462 minutes, 46 seconds substantial amount of money, but it just wasn't enough for her. And she was really happy. And I know she was really happy because uh she was a return client
2:542 minutes, 54 seconds several years later. I feel like people are in your
3:013 minutes, 1 second life for a reason, you know, whatever reason that may be. I look at him in a different way. He's not just a lawyer,
3:093 minutes, 9 seconds you know, if that makes any sense. He has um helped me see something that I've never seen before, you know, so I
3:163 minutes, 16 seconds respect that. It was amazing to work with David and his team. They're humble people. Um
3:263 minutes, 26 seconds and I feel like he put me in position, you know, and people don't do that. If you have a lawsuit, it's going to take
3:343 minutes, 34 seconds time. Don't give up, you know. Be brave, keep trying, keep going, be
3:423 minutes, 42 seconds bold, thinking of what I'm going to do when the time comes, you know, how am I going to better my situation? And um how
3:503 minutes, 50 seconds am I just going to be a better person? I can feel that. I I feel like I want to do something different.