Kenneth Torti

Kenneth R. Torti Attorney at Law​

Kenneth Torti Personal Injury Lawyer

Kenneth R. Torti Attorney at Law​

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I have a Martindale Hubble AV Pre-eminent Rating 5.0/5.0 and have been selected for inclusion in the annual Super Lawyers Directory and rated as one of the top trial lawyers in New York by my peers. I have been representing seriously injured individuals in catastrophic injury cases in construction accident, automobile, products liability, medical malpractice and all areas of trial practice. I also have an extensive real estate and wills and estates practice. I recently settled a construction accident case for $3,000,000.00 for a client injured when a sewer pipe rolled into him. I have had many million dollar and many multi-million recoveries for my clients.

Currently, I am representing thirty five plaintiffs in a $17,000,000.00 action arising out of the March 25, 2015 East Village Explosion Cases in Manhattan in which three residential buildings burned to the ground resulting from illegal siphoned gas service which exploded killing two people and totally destroying the buildings. The criminal prosecutions of the owners and contractors were tried in Manhattan this fall of 2019 and resulted in jury verdicts of criminally negligent homicide. We will now move for summary judgement on liability based on the criminal verdicts and will renew our motion to attach the multimillion dollar proceeds of the sale of the properties that were destroyed and were very valuable for development as vacant lots. We can now proceed with the civil cases since the stay has been lifted since the criminal case has concluded. The defendant Marie Hryenko was sentenced on January 10, 2020 for multiple felony convictions of 4-12 years.

Good news to report, we just obtained a verdict for my plaintiff clients in Supreme Suffolk involving a case against a Suffolk County police officer and the County of Suffolk where the officer lost control of his unmarked police vehicle after it hydroplaned due to water on the roadway and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle and both vehicles spun out of control and went off the roadway. The County asserted that the Emergency Situation Pattern Jury Instruction was applicable which the Court declined to charge since standing water was not a sudden and unforeseeable condition requiring the jury instruction. After completing jury selection and assignment to the trial judge this case was settled after the defendant offered a significant settlement which the plaintiff accepted.