E-NEWSLETTER: July 2016

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

AT THE FIRM

Newsday: “We All Bleed The Same Color”

Frederick K. Brewington was interviewed by Newsday about the recent police-related shootings that occurred in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and in Falcon Heights, Minnesota and the killing of five police officers in Dallas, Texas.
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Father of Student Assaulted by Classmate Granted Request to File Late Notice of Claim against High School

Petitioner Brett Gingrich, as the parent and legal guardian of Samantha Gingrich, sought to file a late Notice of Claim on behalf of his daughter, who was fourteen years old. During the 2014-2015 school year, Samantha was harassed, abused and bullied by another student (Student A) while attending William Floyd High School, in Suffolk County, otherwise called the Respondent School.
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Commentary By Frederick K. Brewington, Esq. — Hate and Violence Will Not Stop Racial Injustice

The most recent levels of freedom with which people have demonstrated their disdain for their fellow human beings is troubling at best. Amongst the name-calling and hate-mongering, the reality of who we are as a community is being robbed from us daily. The messages — both subtle and overt — that come from the mouths of politicians and pundits, who care more about ratings and polls than they do about the lives and people they impact, is like pouring salt into the gash which they have helped create. The great danger of these past weeks is that it is becoming the new normal.
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