The Law Firm of Andrew M. Stengel

08/30/2026

🧠 Hit your head in a New York accident? A traumatic brain injury lawyer in New York can prove what scans miss.
⚠️ You have three years under CPLR 214(5), and the evidence fades long before that.

In this video, you'll learn:

✅ What legally counts as a TBI, from concussion to severe brain injury
✅ How the serious-injury threshold under Insurance Law § 5102(d) decides car crash cases
✅ Why insurers fight TBI lawsuits harder than almost any other injury case
✅ What damages New York allows, including pain-and-suffering awards that have reached the millions
✅ Why the three-year deadline runs out faster than survivors expect

A traumatic brain injury can arrive in a single moment, in a stairwell fall, a rear-end crash or a fall from height on a construction site. The hardest part is that the damage is often invisible. Cognitive changes, slowed processing and emotional shifts rarely appear on a standard X-ray, so carriers dispute the diagnosis. The Law Firm of Andrew M. Stengel, P.C. handles brain injury lawsuits throughout New York, working with neurologists, neuropsychologists, vocational experts and life-care planners to make the injury visible to a jury. We map every cause to every available theory, from Labor Law Sections 240 and 241 to premises liability and product liability.

If you or a family member suffered a head injury in New York, an early call protects the lawsuit.

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08/29/2026

Injured by a falling object on a New York construction site? Labor Law § 240 may hold owners and contractors liable—even if they delegated site safety.

Evidence can disappear quickly. Preserve the object, photos, video and witness information immediately.

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08/29/2026

08/28/2026

⚠️ Hit by a falling object on a New York construction site? Labor Law Section 240 may impose absolute liability may impose absolute liability.

🚨 Evidence starts disappearing the same day.

In this video, you'll learn:

✅ Why Section 240 protects workers struck by falling objects, not just workers who fall
✅ The Narducci standard, and when a missing securing device makes owners and contractors liable
✅ How Section 241(6) and Industrial Code Rule 23-1.7(a) add a companion lawsuit
✅ Why owners and general contractors stay liable even when they delegated all site safety
✅ What evidence to preserve immediately, from the object itself to OSHA citations and video

The Law Firm of Andrew M. Stengel, P.C. represents injured construction workers throughout New York in falling object and scaffold law cases. We bring Labor Law Section 240 claims against property owners, developers and general contractors, and we pair them with Section 241(6) Industrial Code claims where the facts support both. Workers' compensation rarely covers the full cost of a traumatic brain injury or a spinal cord injury, and a Section 240 lawsuit is how that gap gets closed. We move fast to preserve the object, the scene and the witnesses.
If a falling object injured you or someone you work with, the site will not look the same next week.

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08/27/2026

A personal training session should never become an opportunity for sexual assault.

⚖️ Under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Act (GMVA), survivors may be able to pursue civil claims against the trainer—and, in some cases, the gym that hired, supervised, or retained them despite warning signs.

Consent to personal training is never consent to sexual contact.

Survivors may be entitled to compensation for emotional distress, therapy costs, lost income, and other damages.

08/24/2026

⚖️ Sexually assaulted by another inmate in a New York jail or prison? The facility can still be held liable.
🚨 A grievance you filed before the assault may be the strongest evidence in your case.

In this video, you'll learn:

✅ Why Farmer v. Brennan makes a prison liable for peer sexual assault under the Eighth Amendment
✅ What "deliberate indifference" actually means and how it differs from ordinary negligence
✅ How classification failures and PREA violations build institutional liability
✅ What evidence wins these cases, from grievance records to PREA audits at Rikers and DOCCS facilities
✅ Why you do not need a police report to bring a civil lawsuit

Not every sexual assault behind bars comes from staff. When a fellow incarcerated person causes the harm, the institution may still answer for it, because jails and prisons owe a constitutional duty to protect people in their custody from known risks of serious harm. The Law Firm of Andrew M. Stengel, P.C. brings failure to protect lawsuits and correction officer assault lawsuits throughout New York, from New York City jails including Rikers Island to DOCCS prisons statewide. Andrew Stengel is a former New York City prosecutor who now represents survivors of institutional sexual abuse. We understand how frightening it is to come forward from inside a facility, and we move with discretion.

If you or someone you love was assaulted in custody, the evidence gets harder to reach with time.

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08/23/2026

A missing window guard can turn a preventable hazard into a devastating tragedy.

🏢 NYC law requires landlords to install approved window guards in apartments where children age 10 and under live. When landlords fail to follow these safety requirements and a child is injured, they may be held liable.

Families have rights when a landlord’s negligence causes harm.

08/22/2026

A child’s fall from a window may not simply be an accident—it may be the result of a landlord failing to follow NYC safety laws.

⚖️ NYC’s window guard law requires landlords to install window guards in apartments where children 10 and under live.

Watch to learn what landlords are required to do, how liability is proven, and why preserving evidence quickly after a fall can be critical.

08/21/2026

AI deepfakes can be fake. The damage they cause is very real.

New York Civil Rights Law § 52-c gives victims legal options when AI “nudify” apps, face-swaps, or other tools are used to create or share fabricated explicit images without consent.

Victims may be able to seek removal of the images, identify those responsible, and pursue damages.

⚖️ Learn your rights and your legal options.