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Maury has more than 35 years of experience, and, for 20 of those years, he was Partner at Heller, Horowitz & Feit, P.C. Before that, Maury was as an associate at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler and at Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & ...
The ability of tattoo artists to protect themselves from negligence lawsuits got a boost from a recent decision of a New York court. The case of Jackson v. Black Ink Tattoo Studio Inc. drew national interest since the defendants in that case have been featured since 2013 in the VH-1 reality series “Black Ink Crew.” The plaintiff, who claimed that she traveled all the way from North Carolina just to receive a tattoo from Black Ink in New York City, claimed to have experienced scarring from the application of the tattoo. Black Ink, who denied the plaintiff’s condition resulted from Black Ink’s work, requires all of its customers to sign a consent form that provides, in part, as follows:
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