E-Newsletter: August 2017

Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice

The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.

RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased

$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant

$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse

$2.8 million- Wrongful death, products liability case involving a tow motor accident at a sewage treatment plant

Good News for Nassau County Tenants

Senior Associate Cathryn Harris-Marchesi, who is a longstanding member of the Nassau County Rent Guidelines Board, was instrumental in the Board’s vote to pass a 0% rent increase on one-year and two-year leases for all Nassau County tenants who live in rent-stabilized buildings. Of the nine-member Board, only one landlord member and one public member voted against the rent freeze.

The rent freeze applies to all housing units covered by the Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 (ETPA) and marks the first time in its forty-plus-year history of the ETPA that the Nassau County Rent Guidelines Board has voted to freeze rents countywide. The majority of ETPA buildings are in Glen Cove, Hempstead, Rockville Centre, Long Beach and Great Neck.

The Board, in particular Ms. Harris-Marchesi, held public officials accountable for the substandard housing conditions in some communities and the lack of effective building code enforcement during the public hearings held by the Nassau County Rent Guidelines Board.

This is an important decision that will positively impact thousands of renters across Nassau County. A copy of the Rent Increase Chart as passed by the Rent Guidelines Board is available for review. Click here.

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