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Dram shop acts or laws hold drinking establishments liable for serving alcohol to persons who are already obviously intoxicated. Bars under the dram shop law may be liable for damages to third parties who are injured as a result of the sale of alcohol and the intoxication of their customer.

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In New York the dram shop law is found in section 11-101 of the New York General Obligations law. Under this law, it is illegal for businesses to serve alcohol to persons who are visibly intoxicated.

Obvious signs include visible intoxication, slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, and lack of physical coordination. Under New York law the bar or tavern will be held responsible for damages caused anyone who is injured by the patron of the bar who were served alcohol.

If a bar serves a person alcohol, then that person drives away and injures another person in a car accident, the victims injured can sue the bar.

Recently a state Supreme Court jury awarded $550,000 to the victim of a DWI-related car crash in 2008 -- and placed nearly half the blame on the downtown Albany nightclub that served booze to the drunken driver before he hit the road.

The jury unanimously determined the Bar on Central Avenue wrongly served alcohol to "visibly intoxicated" patron during the early hours of Sept. 12, 2008.

The Patron later got behind the wheel of his Lexus and rear-ended a Mazda Protege on the northbound lanes of Interstate 787 about 3:20 a.m. The victim ended-up needing surgery to have bones in his neck and spine fused. Bars have a responsibility to make sure they don't over-serve people.

The jury found the that the bar not only caused or contributed to the intoxication of the driver -- but that its actions were a "substantial factor" in the injuries suffered by the victim in the crash.