Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Has there been legal precedence or, you know, cases that have been already brought against these social media companies and successfully proven this is the case? You know, the causation or correlation does not always equal correlation. Correlation does not…. Steven Gacovino – Social Media Youth Harm Attorney – […]
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Well, speaking of liability, one of the things that is often touted by the social media companies is they have immunity. I think it’s what, 230? There’s statute 230. Does that come into play here? Steven Gacovino – Social Media Youth Harm Attorney – Suffolk County, NY You’re exactly
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Well, I assume you can classify that health professional as expert testimony in potential future litigation because… I would ask what type of experts would be required in this particular case because it is such a burgeoning field of law. So what kind of experts would be required in
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Well, let’s step back a second. You’ve used the phrase mass tort. Can you explain that to somebody who’s watching this video? Steven Gacovino – Mass Tort Attorney – Suffolk County, NY It might be oversimplified, but what it means is that there are a lot of people that
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, let’s talk about fees and explain your fees a little bit and how, well, are they any different between personal injury and, you know, what we’ve been discussing, this mass tort case. Steven Gacovino – Mass Tort Attorney – Suffolk County, NY And with respect to New York,
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media This is a new area of law that you’re going to need specialty attorneys to be involved with it. And it looks like you’re on the forefront of that. Is that correct? Steven Gacovino – Social Media Youth Harm Attorney – Suffolk County, NY I feel pretty comfortable with
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media How long does it take from when they first contact you to let’s say a resolution of the case, whether it’s a settlement or if they have to go to trial? Is New York as, not behind times, but as backlogged with civil cases as the rest of the
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Is this type of case, a mass tort case, is the timeline any different than a personal injury case? Steven Gacovino – Mass Tort Attorney – Suffolk County, NY This is a mass tort case to answer the first part of the question, but the timelines in these cases,
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Parents, looking at this video, if they say what can we do to minimize that damage, the exposure, maybe to what has already happened with our teenager, but we don’t want our adolescent to do it, what would you say to them? Steven Gacovino – Social Media Youth Harm
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media There’s divorce lawyers or divorce mediators and so there’s competition. So what would you say to somebody who walks in your office? Why should they use you versus the guy down the street? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Well, I don’t know if the
