A large personal injury law firm in New York is seeking to withdraw from hundreds of its cases after an Eyewitness News investigation.
Subin Associates is requesting to withdraw from 200 to 300 cases because of ethical concerns it has with a referral source, the firm recently told a judge. The referral source is the person who brought the allegedly injured people to the law firm, so they could file lawsuits.
They’re primarily lawsuits in which Subin was representing people who claimed they were injured while working on local construction sites. The plaintiffs were suing the construction companies, the insurance companies and the property owners for their alleged injuries.
The stunning move by the law firm came after an Eyewitness News investigation into a claim by Queens resident Carlos Ramirez-Naranjo that Subin misused his identity to file a construction site injury lawsuit.
The law firm filed a lawsuit against a Brooklyn work site’s property owners and developers using Naranjo’s name. The lawsuit said Naranjo was left severely disabled when he tripped and fell on the job site on August 17, 2022 suffering “internal and external injuries” and was “confined to his bed and home.”