Borgia v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Borgia v. City of New York

259 A.D.2d 648, 685 N.Y.S.2d 628, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2710

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedMarch 22, 1999

StatusPublished

Cited by2 cases

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Borgia v. City of New York, 259 A.D.2d 648, 685 N.Y.S.2d 628, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2710 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1999).

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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., Barasch & McGarry, P. C., appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Rings County (Bernstein, J.), dated April 2, 1998, which, inter alia, granted the motion of the nonparty respondent Dominick F. Callo, P. C., to enforce its lien of 33V3% of the attorneys’ fees recovered in this action, against the nonparty appellant Barasch & McGarry, P. C.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court correctly determined that the underlying agreement between the plaintiffs’ first counsel in this action, Dominick F. Callo, P. C. (hereinafter Callo), and the second counsel, McDonough, Marcus, Cohn & Tretter, P. C. (hereinafter McDonough), entitles Callo at this juncture to 33⅓% of the entirety of the attorneys’ fees recovered herein, notwithstanding any subsequent fee-sharing arrangements between McDonough and the third successive attorney for the plaintiffs, Barasch & McGarry, P. C. (see, Benjamin v Koeppel, 85 NY2d 549, 556; Witt v Cohen, 192 AD2d 528; Gore v Kressner, 157 AD2d 575; Sterling v Miller, 2 AD2d 900, affd 3 NY2d 778). O’Brien, J. P., Ritter, Joy and Altman, JJ., concur.

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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., Barasch & McGarry, P. C., appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Rings County (Bernstein, J.), dated April 2, 1998, which, inter alia, granted the motion of the nonparty respondent Dominick F. Callo, P. C., to enforce its lien of 33V3% of the attorneys’ fees recovered in this action, against the nonparty appellant Barasch & McGarry, P. C.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court correctly determined that the underlying agreement between the plaintiffs’ first counsel in this action, Dominick F. Callo, P. C. (hereinafter Callo), and the second counsel, McDonough, Marcus, Cohn & Tretter, P. C. (hereinafter McDonough), entitles Callo at this juncture to 33⅓% of the entirety of the attorneys’ fees recovered herein, notwithstanding any subsequent fee-sharing arrangements between McDonough and the third successive attorney for the plaintiffs, Barasch & McGarry, P. C. (see, Benjamin v Koeppel, 85 NY2d 549, 556; Witt v Cohen, 192 AD2d 528; Gore v Kressner, 157 AD2d 575; Sterling v Miller, 2 AD2d 900, affd 3 NY2d 778). O’Brien, J. P., Ritter, Joy and Altman, JJ., concur.

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259 A.D.2d 648, 685 N.Y.S.2d 628, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2710, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/borgia-v-city-of-new-york-nyappdiv-1999.

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