Two weeks later, on Sept. 11, Seashore-Mathura filed her slip-and fall swimsuit towards town in Brooklyn Federal Court docket, courtroom data reveal.
The alleged tumble occurred Oct. 22, 2023 — a month earlier than she first filed the $5 million assault declare towards Adams that he denies — when Seashore-Mathura, a working towards Buddhist, was on her option to Myosetsuji Temple in Flushing, the place she was going to attend a ceremony, in accordance with a transcript of an interview concerning the incident she had with metropolis authorities legal professionals final spring.
Particularly, Lorna-Seashore, 68, advised town legal professionals she had simply exited the Court docket Sq. subway station in Lengthy Island Metropolis and was about to cross the road to catch a bus.
“I started moving across a square, a large square area that looked like dirt, so I started walking across that area, that’s when I tripped,” she mentioned below oath, in accordance with the transcript, which was submitted in courtroom.
“I started walking across and all of a sudden I felt my foot, my right foot trip on something and I started stumbling and I was trying to steady myself, and my left foot was moving forward and I tripped again and the next thing you know, I’m falling hard onto the sidewalk.”
The sidewalk in Lengthy Island Metropolis the place Lorna Seashore-Mathura alleges she fell. (Norinsberg Legislation)
Lorna-Seashore alleges the autumn was so unhealthy she needed to be taken to Elmhurst Hospital after sustaining “severe and permanent injuries” to her left wrist, left hand, left elbow, proper knee, neck, again and chest.
In keeping with her swimsuit, the autumn occurred due to a “dangerous, defective and uneven” kink within the sidewalk that town ought to have remedied. She submitted a number of pictures alongside together with her swimsuit exhibiting an empty sidewalk tree pit lined with bricks, a number of of which seem displaced, and claimed her accidents ought to immediate a choose to order town to pay her a sum that “exceeds $75,000, exclusive of interests and costs.”
In a response filed in October, an lawyer for town Legislation Division rejected Lorna-Seashore’s argument, writing she “should have known” of “the risks and dangers incident to engaging in the activity alleged” and that town “owed no duty” to her. In a subsequent letter to the courtroom, the Legislation Division lawyer wrote town will search to dismiss her swimsuit due to a scarcity of specificity in an preliminary discover she filed detailing her allegations.
The presiding choose has requested Seashore-Mathura and town to supply a standing replace Jan. 31.
Mayor Adams. (Barry Williams / New York Day by day Information)
Seashore-Mathura, who lives in Miami, and the lawyer representing her within the slip-and-fall swimsuit didn’t instantly return requests for remark Tuesday.
Amid the slip-and-fall motion, Seashore-Mathura’s chapter submitting is pending within the Sunshine State.
In keeping with data submitted in Southern Florida Chapter Court docket, Seashore-Mathura owes $328,855 to greater than a dozen collectors, together with banks and hospitals. She reported in courtroom papers she has no common revenue, however owns a house value about $380,000 and receives roughly $3,100 monthly in retirement and Social Safety advantages.
Spokespeople for Adams and the Legislation Division, which represents him within the assault case, didn’t instantly return requests for touch upon Seashore-Mathura’s chapter and slip-and-fall actions.
Her new authorized actions come as her assault swimsuit towards Adams can be pending, a case that first got here to mild in November 2023, when she filed a discover of declare with town.
Final March, she then filed her lawsuit, which alleges Adams tried to drive her to carry out oral intercourse on him in a parked automotive in 1993 whereas they labored collectively for the since-defunct metropolis Transit Police Division. Seashore-Mathura, who’s looking for no less than $5 million in damages over the alleged assault, says that when she refused his proposition, he masturbated and ejaculated on her leg.
Seashore-Mathura has filed a number of unsuccessful lawsuits lately, together with a civil motion towards American Airways in 2014 that alleged an worker injured her by inflicting her to fall out of her wheelchair. She has additionally written a self-help e-book providing recommendation about learn how to file professional se lawsuits.
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