Thomas Porrazzo

New York’s Appellate Division, First Department affirmed a decision of the Bronx County Supreme Court, which precluded plaintiff’s expert evidence submitted in opposition to a summary judgment motion and following a Frye...more The doctrine of collateral estoppel precludes a party from re-litigating an issue raised and decided against that party or a party in privity in a prior action. Determinations of quasi-judicial agencies, such as the Workers’...more The First Department has limited the role of testimony as to custom and practice in establishing what a defendant physician did in a specific instance in medical malpractice cases in Guido v. Fielding, 190 A.D.3d 49 (2020)....more In recent rulings, New York’s Second Department has clarified the standard to strike pleadings for violation of Court Orders. Contrasting the Tolkoff and Onyenwe cases shows how the Court distinguishes between a violation of...more