Will the Great Blizzard of 2010 Lead to a Storm of Lawsuits?

4. Lawsuits against New York City for negligent snow removal.

Right now New York City officials are being criticized most harshly for the city’s inadequate snow removal. But what about cases in which city employees, in the course of removing snow, injure people or damage property?

If you haven’t done so already, check out this amazing video (via the Huffington Post), which has already racked up some 1.7 million views. Be patient; it gets better — or worse — as it goes along:

Might the owner of that parked SUV have a lawsuit against the city? Note the exchange around the 3:30 mark in the video, where a sanitation worker invokes his supervisor and a bystander responds, “Tell your supervisor to come with a lawyer.”

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