There is no "State of NYC"; NYC is a municipal corporation. To sue NYC, you must first file a "Notice of Claim" with the City of NY within 90 days...

Presumably, the attorney did not present the recently decided "case" as evidence in your action, but for the purposes of bringing a legal decision...

Your inquiry as posed is vague and confusing because of crucial missing details. The only generalization that can be given now is that if the...

As a practical matter, it would be quicker for you to file a claim with your own insurance carrier, assuming you have "collision/comprehensive"...

Making sure a Judgement is properly entered, and in which court and/or county as may be necessary based upon various factors and considerations,...

Unfortunately, you can't get a "highly thorough answer" to your post because what you have written is, respectfully, unintelligible. To begin...

"Punitive Damages" are generally speaking a type of monetary award that arises out of a proven intentional act, or one of extreme recklessness or...

By statute, the Summons and Complaint must be first filed with the court (thus commencing the action); and any copies of those papers, as served,...

Once you filed the note of issue, there can be no "pre-trial discovery", unless "special circumstances" and "good cause" can be shown to the court...

A Subpoena Duces Tecum (or even Ad Testificatum) can not be used to conduct pre-trial discovery, especially after the Note of Issue was filed. ...