The tables are being turned on a high-profile Manhattan personal- injury lawyer who is facing a pain- and-suffering car-accident lawsuit involving his Bentley.
Litigator Michael Lamonsoff wasn’t even in his luxury sports car when it was involved in a March 16, 2011, collision with a 2006 Nissan driven by Manuel Gonzalez, a 29-year-old unemployed construction worker from East Harlem.
But Lamonsoff is being accused of “negligence, carelessness and recklessness†because one of his employees, Rafael Suero, of The Bronx, was behind the wheel of the 2008 Bentley Continental GTC convertible, according the lawsuit filed last week in Bronx Supreme Court.
IT’S PERSONAL: Bentley-owning injury lawyer Michael Lamonsoff (above) is being sued by Manuel Gonzalez.
Lamonsoff is also accused of shoddy “management†of his Bentley because Suero was allegedly yapping on his cellphone and speeding, the suit says.
Gonzalez, who injured a knee in the crash on Pearl Street in Manhattan, also says he’s been billed $88,000 to repair the Bentley.
“At the end of the day, no one goes out and says I want to crash into a Bentley,†he said.
Seth Jesse MacArthur, an attorney at Lamonsoff’s firm, said Gonzalez’s insurance company “accepted 100 percent of the responsibility of the accident†and paid Lamonsoff $25,000.
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