David B. Corley

David B. Corley has more than 24 years of experience trying a wide variety of accident cases. He has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers New York Metro Edition 2009, 2012 and 2011. He has represented personal injury victims who are injured as the result of construction site accidents, product-liability accidents, motor vehicle accidents, falls on city streets, playground accidents and fires. He has also represented medical malpractice victims and people who have been raped or assaulted in unsafe buildings.

Recent Cases

Mr. Corley has obtained numerous multi-million dollar verdicts for victims injured in accidents throughout New York. Some of his recent verdicts include:

• Verdict for $12.8 million dollars: Against the County of Nassau in a roadway design case for a women who suffered a fractured neck
• Verdict for $10 million dollars: For a woman who suffered a fractured back in a products-liability claim against the manufacturer for the defective redesign of a minibus; and the company that operated the bus.
• Verdict for $5.5 million dollars: Against a building owner, for a man employed as an electrician, who suffered a significant leg fracture as a result of a fall from a ladder after being electrocuted while working at a construction project.
• Verdict for $3.5 million dollars: Against a building owner, for a woman who suffered a serious fracture of the right arm as a result of slipping on oil and grease that was present on the interior stairwell at the time of her fall
• Verdict for $2 million dollars: Against the driver of a truck and the truck company that rear-ended a woman who sustained a serious aggravation and exacerbation of a pre-existing neck condition
• Verdict for $1.3 million dollars: For a construction worker who suffered significant injuries after falling 15 feet at a construction site.

Education

Mr. Corley is a 1986 graduate of the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Touro Law Center and was admitted to the State Bar of New York in 1987. He is also admitted to the Federal Bars in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Mr. Corley is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.