NY Appeals Court Tosses Conviction of PI Law Firm and Name Partner
A New York appeals court has overturned the conviction of a personal injury law firm and one of its name partners for conspiring to defraud insurance companies.
The court said there was insufficient evidence against the law firm Silverman & Taylor in Freeport, N.Y., and against name partner Daivery Taylor, the New York Law Journal reports. Taylor had been convicted in 2005 and sentenced to probation and fined $5,000, the story says. He was also disbarred.
Taylor had been accused of paying “steerers” to send accident victims to his office and instructing them to lie about their injuries.
One of Taylor’s lawyers, Gerald Lecourt, told the New York Law Journal the reversal was “bold and dramatic” justice.
“Here’s a young lawyer, really at the beginning of his career, working really hard on his cases, [and] every one of the people suffered actual injury,” Lefcourt told the publication. “He said things to his clients that I’m sure all personal injury lawyers say to their clients–that your recovery is measured in some part on the extent of your injuries.
