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New York City subway accidents kill four victims in one day
New York -- Officials report that four separate subway accident cases killed four victims on a single Saturday in January 2012. This has many citizen and transit advocates concerned. They feel these injuries and wrongful deaths highlight the dangerous condition posed by many subway stations and tracks throughout New York...
Accidents, injuries and deaths increase with headphone use
Investigators have identified headphones as a significant cause of preventable injury. Research on the causes and preventions of accident, injury and death has shown that distractions of various sorts can increase the odds of being involved in an accident. This, for example, is one of the reasons most states have...
School bus accident in Queens, New York
New York -- A school bus accident in Jamaica, Queens injured several accident victims after a car crashed into the bus. Reports show that the car may have run through a red light, causing the bus crash. Police and ambulance crews treated at least six victims of the crash, including...
Most hospital mistakes not reported
A recent study published from the United States Department of Health and Human Services shows that as many as 86% of hospital errors that cause harm to Medicare patients are not reported. The report notes that hospitals are required to have reporting mechanisms in place but many doctors, nurses and...
Multiple injury lawsuits filed against New York elevator repair company
New York -- Reports show that an elevator repair company in New York City has eight accident lawsuits pending against it. The negligence lawsuits stem from unrelated accidents that caused eight different victims to become injured due to the elevators. This is the same elevator maintenance company that had worked...
Lawsuits against New York City continue from last year's snow and ice
New York -- The City of New York is still battling personal injury lawsuits and from last year's blizzard. The snow and ice storm took many days to clean up and reportedly left many people injured by various types of accidents, including slip and fall accidents, tripping on improperly shoveled...
Deadly elevator accident in Manhattan, New York City
New York -- A woman was fatally injured in an elevator accident in a Manhattan, NY office building last week. The accident victim was getting into the elevator car when it suddenly moved upward and crushed her. Police reported that the injured woman worked in the office building where the...
Garbage truck kills pedestrian in Brooklyn, New York
New York -- A woman was struck by a garbage truck and killed during the accident last week. The accident occurred in Brooklyn, New York as the victim was crossing the street in the early evening. Reports show that the accident victim was from Long Island, New York and was...
Shoppers injured on Black Friday
New York -- Shoppers across the country, from New York to California, were injured during the Black Friday mad rush. Two women were injured in a popular discount retail store in New York during a fight, while 20 shoppers were injured in a store in California. Reports show that the...
Police officer injured at work in Westchester, New York
New York -- Two weeks ago a police officer was involved in a car accident where he was struck by a car in Westchester, New York. He was working at the time, during a traffic stop, when a car hit the officer as he stood on the side of the...
Health code violations close popular New York restaurant
New York -- A popular pizzeria was closed down by the New York City Department of Health this past week due to multiple health code violations. The Brooklyn, NY restaurant was cited for several health hazards, that the health department says can cause a health hazard to consumers. Included among...
Wrongful death lawsuit from silicone injections
New York -- A woman died in the Bronx, New York after receiving silicone injections from an unlicensed cosmetologist. The cosmetologist was found guilty of negligent homicide due to her negligence in the case and for claiming to be licensed to perform the injections. Plastic surgeons say that this is...
Doctor in high-profile wrongful death case found guilty
A doctor has been found guilty by a jury in the wrongful death criminal lawsuit of famous singer, Michael Jackson. The doctor, a cardiologist, was charged with involuntary manslaughter after giving the singer an inappropriate medication, an anesthesia drug. Public health specialists say that the use of the anesthesia medication...
Pedestrian struck and killed in truck accident in Manhattan, New York
New York -- An elderly woman was killed in a pedestrian accident on a Manhattan, New York street this past week. The accident victim was struck and killed by a tow truck that was turning as she tried to cross the street. Investigators say that the woman was crossing at...
Several motor vehicle accidents plague New York highway
New York -- Another car accident on the New York State Thruway near Sloatsburg caused injuries and one death this past week. Officials report that six cars and trucks were involved in a chain reaction set of accidents after one car crashed in to a car that was broken down...
New York State Thruway bus accident injures several victims
New York -- A bus accident this week sent several injured accident victims to the emergency room. The bus crash occurred on the New York State Thruway when the bus crashed in to the back of a tractor-trailer truck. The bus driver was trapped in the accident and was extricated...
New York organization dedicated to brain injury victims
New York -- An organization in New York State, called the Brain Injury Association of New York State, is dedicated to the support of victims of brain injury and their families. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are often caused during an accident, such as a car accident or slip and fall,...
New York City elevator accident kills worker
New York -- An elevator accident in Manhattan, New York a week ago left one worker dead and his family wondering why. The work injury occurred while the workman was trying to fix the broken elevator 10 stories high in the New York City building. The injury occurred when the...
Construction scaffold collapses, causing injuries in Harlem, New York
New York -- Scaffolding being used by workers at a construction site in Harlem, New York collapsed on to a New York City Transit bus. The building was being demolished when the accident occurred, crushing the bus beneath the scaffold and construction debris. Large bricks were reported to have fallen...
Statistics show drug and medication deaths exceed car accident deaths
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of deaths attributed to drugs and medications outnumbers the amount of people who are killed in a car accident. The reports show that these drug-related deaths are not only caused by illegal recreational drug use but also from...
Drunk driver injures bicyclist in car accident
Police report that a drunk driver caused serious injuries to a bicycle rider this past week. The bicyclist was struck by the intoxicated driver and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) with bleeding in his brain. The woman driving the car apparently was drinking vodka not long before the car...
Negligent bus driver blamed for deadly motor vehicle accident
New York -- The bus driver who caused the dangerous and deadly bus accident a few months ago was arrested and charged in the accident. The driver of the bus apparently did not have a valid driver's license because his license was suspended when the bus accident occurred. The accident...
Amusement park injury leaves woman with amputated leg and child injured
Reports of another amusement park accident raise renewed concerns of public advocates. A four-year-old girl was visiting an amusement park with her family when they were involved in a serious accident last week. The girl and her grandmother were riding on the carnival's flume when it crashed and threw the...
Westchester, New York woman killed in car accident caused by truck tire
New York -- A woman driving on a busy highway in Westchester, New York was hit by a flying truck tire that flew off of a passing tractor-trailer truck. The truck was driving in the opposite direction when two tires broke off the axle and were thrown through the air....
School cited as being at-fault in student's wrongful death
Officials from the United States Occupation and Health Administration (OSHA) have reportedly told Yale University that improper safety precautions may have contributed to the wrongful death of one of their students. Several months ago a student working in a school chemistry laboratory was injured when her hair became caught in...
Bus accident on New York highway with 30 victims
New York -- A bus was involved in a rollover accident on an upstate New York highway last week. The tour bus was travelling with 30 people in bad weather when the motor vehicle accident occurred. Investigators believe that the combination of the bus driver speeding and the rainy weather...
Speeding van runs red light, hits Long Island, New York bus
New York -- Police report that a speeding van ran through a red light in the Long Island, New York and crashed in to an MTA bus over the weekend. The vehicle was apparently being driven by a drunk driver when it caused the car accident according to reports. The...
One woman killed, another injured by SUV in Manhattan, New York
New York -- A driver of an SUV truck backed up in to a parking spot and hit 2 pedestrians. The car accident, which occurred in Manhattan, New York, killed a 78 year old woman and injured the first victim's daughter. Witnesses say that the driver of the vehicle struck...
Construction accident leaves worker dead
A construction worker was injured while at work on a New Jersey highway. The man was crushed by a concrete construction barrier during the accident. Officials say the workman's injuries were so severe that he was pronounced dead shortly after. The construction worker's death will need to be further investigated,...
Man dies in accident at New York amusement park
New York -- A man who went on a roller coaster ride in an amusement park in New York died during a horrible accident. He was thrown from the amusement park ride and was pronounced dead from his injuries. The victim was a veteran of the U.S. Army and had...
Auxiliary New York Police Department chief kills pedestrian in van accident
New York -- Police in New York City report that an auxiliary police chief struck and killed a pedestrian in a motor vehicle accident involving a police department van. Apparently, the auxiliary police officer, who is 85 years old, pushed the gas pedal of the van by mistake instead of...
New York City subway accident kills a woman
New York -- A young woman was struck and killed in a New York City subway accident. Officials say the woman fell on to the subway tracks after she passed out. Some believed that the woman fainted due to the extreme heat. Transportation safety investigators reportedly took samples of blood...
Brain injury victims may find help from computer technology
Doctors have studied and treated head injury patient for thousands of years. Now, some scientists are looking at computer software that may help treat some of these patients who have suffered a brain injury. Brain injuries can be caused but trauma, surgery, or other causes. A traumatic brain injury (TBI)...
Children injured by carnival bounce houses in New York
New York -- Heavy winds blew several bounce houses out of control, injuring 13 bystanders. The carnival style jumping castles were set up on a soccer field of a Long Island, New York school as a fun activity in association with the soccer team. Witnesses say that the blow up...
Amusement park accident kills little girl in fall from Ferris wheel
The New York Post reports that a young girl fell from the Ferris wheel of a New Jersey amusement park this weekend. The eleven year old girl fell while the amusement park ride was on its way up but it is unclear why she fell. Some speculate that she fell...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) being sued for negligence
A lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) based on their actions and inactions involving the use of antibiotics in animal feed. The practice of adding antibiotics in to the food supply given to animals dates back many years now. However, public advocates say that...
Elevator accident injures construction workers
| 05.22.2011 |
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New York -- An elevator accident caused multiple injuries in Manhattan, New York this past week. The elevator crash occurred while about 24 workers were aboard, injuring at least 22 of the workmen. Officials reported that some of the injured sustained serious injury when the elevator fell 4 floors. They...
Osteoporosis drugs prescribed by your doctor may cause bone problems
Researchers have discovered that some osteoporosis drugs that are commonly prescribed by doctors may actually cause serious bone problems. The scientists studying these medications - including Fosomax, Actonel, Boniva, and Reclast - say that the medicines may cause patients to break a bone. Increased fractures of a thigh bone have...
COPD can be related to work exposure
Occupational medicine doctors have long known that there are some common jobs that can cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They say that some of these professions or work sites are more likely to cause the disease than others. In fact, some work health and safety experts note that some...
Dangerous off-ramp from the Queensboro Bridge near Long Island City, New York
New York -- Police report that there were 2 serious car accidents less than a week and a half apart from each other on an off-ramp from the Queensboro Bridge near Long Island City, New York. Investigators say that there were many similarities between the car accidents and some wonder...
Subway train accident injures man in New York City
New York -- An 18 year old man suffered severe injuries when he was hit by a subway train in the Union Square station of Manhattan, New York. Officials say the man may have tripped before falling and being struck during the accident. The injured young man was rushed by...
Construction accident in Staten Island, New York kills worker :: Negligent homicide case filed
New York -- A construction accident killed a worker when a wall collapsed and crushed the worker two years ago. Investigators have now revealed that negligent homicide charge have been filed against 2 men they say are responsible for the accident and the worker's death. The officials from the prosecutor's...
Deadly car accident after woman makes illegal U-turn
New York -- A woman driving on a New York highway died during a 2-car accident according to emergency workers. New York State Police reported that the woman was making an illegal U-turn when she tried turning around in an emergency break in the center barrier of the road. The...
More medication recalled :: Tylenol manufacturer claims this is precautionary
The makers of Tylenol, as well as several other popular over-the-counter medicines, has issued yet another recall. This is the continuation of the many product recalls issued by the Johnson and Johnson company due to health and / or quality concerns with their products. Health and industry experts wonder if...
Truck accident safety experts warn of continued dangers despite engineering advances
Safety experts warn the continued severe dangers of injury and death from a truck accident even with all of the advanced engineering that goes in to building modern trucks. Recent studies on truck crash accidents show that tractor-trailer, or semi, accidents can injure and kill occupants of both the truck...
Bus accident in Bronx, New York City :: 13 people killed, many injured
New York -- A tour bus was involved in a severe motor vehicle accident yesterday on a busy highway in the Bronx, New York City near the border with Westchester. Officials report that the bus accident occurred when a tractor-trailer truck hit the bus that was heading toward Manhattan, causing...
Car accident safety studies by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
| 03.06.2011 |
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Car accident safety has been well studied and discussed for many years now. The researchers at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) have been comparing the results of their test car crashes to actual car accident injuries and deaths. They report that the grades given to cars during car...
Defective candles recalled :: One consumer suffers burn injury
A recent recall was announced by Pier 1 Imports for a defective product sold throughout the nation, including local New York branches of the popular store. The faulty candles were reported to burn incorrectly with flames higher than would be considered safe. The candles were manufactured in China and were...
Car accident in Long Island, New York kills one passenger and injures two
Police in Long Island, New York report that a car accident over the weekend has killed one of the passengers and injured two others. The most seriously injured person was flown by helicopter to the closest New York trauma center. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. The police who...
Medicine not approved by FDA due to safety concerns
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has denied the application from a medication manufacturer for their diet medicine due to safety concerns. The FDA is responsible for approving drugs for sale in the U.S. based on safety studies that prove the drug won't hurt a patient. Public health advocates say...
Police officer killed at work on Long Island, New York highway
A horrible traffic accident killed a police officer while at work on the Long Island Expressway. The officer was conducting a traffic stop when a truck hit his car from behind. The rear end car accident by a flatbed truck pushed the the police officer's car under a box truck....
New York Police Department to be sued over alleged wrongful death case during traffic stop
The New York Police Department (NYPD) will soon have a wrongful death lawsuit being filed against it, filed by the wife of a man who died during a routine traffic stop. The case began when police in the Queens borough of New York City stopped an elderly couple to issue...
Doctor and clinic staff arrested :: Medical malpractice and wrongful death
| 01.23.2011 |
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A doctor and 4 of his staff members have been arrested following a long investigation in to medical malpractice in their medical clinic. The doctor was charged in the deaths of 8 patients, including 7 babies and one mother, during late term abortions. Officials have brought the case through a...
New York City :: Delivery truck accident injures driver after it rolls over
| 01.16.2011 |
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A delivery truck rolled over during a motor vehicle accident with a small car in Manhattan, New York. Accident investigators reported that the driver of the truck was injured and taken to a local city hospital. The nature and extent of his injuries from the accident were unclear. The driver of...
New law passed to promote food safety, prevent food poisoning
| 01.09.2011 |
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was given the charge to make food in the United States safer under a new law that was passed this month. The law was signed with the hopes that the government can reduce illness, injury and death from food poisoning. Public advocates warn that...
FDA explains the dangers of some "natural" dietary supplements
| 01.02.2011 |
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have the same authority to watch over "natural" dietary supplements or vitamins as they do with medicines. Medication manufacturers must clinically prove the effectiveness and safety of drugs that are marketed to consumers in the US. However, a supplement or vitamin is...
Researchers warn of dangers of e-cigarettes and cite them as possible dangerous products
A study published recently warns consumers of the possible dangers of a new technology being marketed to help smokers quit their smoking habit. The maker of e-cigarettes claims that their product can help people quit smoking and that their electronic version is safer. However, the study cites multiple concerns, including...
Dog bites on the rise, children most vulnerable from dog attacks
Two new studies have been published on the threat of dog attacks. The first study was conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It documents a rise in the number of dog bites over the past 16 years with emergency department visits....
Queens, New York :: Tractor-trailer causes motor vehicle accident with New York City bus and a minivan
| 12.12.2010 |
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A tractor-trailer plowed on to the sidewalk in a Queens, New York neighborhood. The truck hit a minivan and then rolled toward its right side. Accident investigators described the minivan as being partially cut in half by the truck. The minivan was then pushed in to a New York City...
Dog attack on board an airplane from a New York area airport
A dog attacked and bit two people on a US Airways flight that left Newark airport. According to official reports, the owner of the dog let the dog out of its cage during the flight. The dog attack left both victims with dog bites before the pilot safely landed the...
Another Tylenol recall sparks concerns over consumer safety
Johnson and Johnson (J&J), the manufacturer of Tylenol, has announced yet another recall of their over-the-counter medications. According to New York's Wall Street Journal, this recent recall involves several Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom products produced by J&J. Other products produced by the same company and involved in the recalls include children's...
Another Tylenol recall sparks concerns over consumer safety
Johnson and Johnson (J&J), the manufacturer of Tylenol, has announced yet another recall of their over-the-counter medications. According to New York's Wall Street Journal, this recent recall involves several Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom products produced by J&J. Other products produced by the same company and involved in the recalls include children's...
World Trade Center workers after 9/11 agree to $625 Million settlement
The police, fire, emergency medical service and construction workers who worked at the site of the World Trade Center after 9/11 have agreed to a settlement in their huge work injury lawsuit. They have agreed to a settlement worth about $625 Million from the City of New York. The workers...
Car accident kills 4 motorcyclists and passenger in the car
A car accident this week has killed 4 victims on motorcycles as well as the front seated passenger of the car. Several more motorcycle drivers and passengers were hurt in the accident. Police in California have arrested the driver of the car, charging him with drunk driving that may have...
Westchester, New York man struck and killed by pickup truck
| 11.07.2010 |
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Michael Orlando, a Westchester, New York man was hit by a pickup truck in Mahopac while he was out walking with his dog. Police and ambulance personnel who responded to the scene reported that the victim was killed after being dragged by the motor vehicle during the tragic accident. Police...
Food recalls announced due to safety and health concerns
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced several new food recalls due to health and safety concerns. A recent recall involved frozen green peas that were recalled voluntarily by the Pictsweet company. The company explained there were reports of glass fragments ending up in their product. Another voluntary...
Railroad worker receives over $2.6 Million from New York court after workers comp injury
A man who suffered a workers comp injury while working on a railroad was awarded more than $2.6 Million by a jury in Manhattan, New York. His personal injury lawyer explained that the man suffered severe nerve damage and multiple other permanent injuries due to employer negligence. He was injured...
Man killed and two more injured in car accident in Long Island, New York
| 10.17.2010 |
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Police report that one man was killed in a car accident on Veteran's Highway this weekend in Suffolk County in Long Island, New York. The car was rear ended at a traffic light by a drunk driver. Two other victims in the car were also taken to the hospital suffering...
Injured high school student wins $8 Million in lawsuit against New York City
New York City has settled a negligence lawsuit filed against them for $8 Million by a man who was paralyzed while a high school student. The man was injured while paying football and suffered a spinal injury with a broken bone in his neck. He has lived in a wheelchair...
Laws created to protect drivers from car accidents may not help
Researchers have recently reported that laws designed to prevent car accidents may not be helping. Auto accident experts from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety explain that despite laws in many states that prohibit texting while driving there have actually been more car crashes while texting. Concerned car accident experts...
New York law to address bedbug infestations
A new law in New York is now in force to protect consumers from the current bedbug infestation. The bedbug problem has grown to near epidemic proportions in crowded cities like New York City. This has become a problem in many areas but experts point out that crowded cities that...
Medical research suggests traumatic brain injury is a chronic disease
Recent medical research on traumatic brain injury (TBI) describes the long term and permanent effects of this disease. Neurologists describe a traumatic brain injury as a form of brain damage caused by head injury. This condition can leave a person with concentration problems, difficulty remembering things and can even affect...
Medical researchers hope blood tests will help diagnose brain injury
Research continues on the use of blood tests to help diagnose a brain injury. Doctors have long known that it is difficult to diagnose traumatic brain injuries, especially in the emergency room. Even with modern advances, such as cat scans and MRI scans, a brain injury can easily be missed....
Man killed in Long Island Expressway car crash
One man was killed in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway in Nassau County, New York. Police investigators now say the man was a passenger in the car while the driver was driving drunk. That driver has now been arrested and charged with driving under the influence and causing...
$52.4 Million settlement in negligence lawsuit after bridge collapse
A bridge collapse in Minneapolis 3 years ago left 13 people dead and another 145 injured. Now an engineering consulting company is settling a negligence lawsuit against them for $52.4 Million. Many complaints began to surface right after the accident with personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits soon filed. Victims...
General Motors announces defective seatbelt recall
Another car maker, this time General Motors (GM), has announced a car recall due to defective safety equipment. The executive director of safety at GM explained that some of the seatbelts may not lock properly. During a car accident this can cause significant personal injury or death. Consumers have been...
Police in Brooklyn, New York hit bicyclist and then fled the scene
An NYPD officer and his partner were suspended without pay for causing a bicyclist injury and then fleeing the scene in a hit and run accident. The police officers were responding to an unrelated incident when the accident occurred in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The officers apparently...
School bus accident in New York injured 19 people
Police are investigating a school bus accident in Chestnut Ridge, New York. There were 19 people on the bus who were injured and taken to the hospital. Most of the injured were young children who were on their way home from a local New York day camp. Investigators say the...
Toyota faces negligence lawsuit from motor vehicle accident
In February 2010, we reported on this breaking story about the Toyota Recall. A half year later, the wife of a man who died in a car accident is now filing a lawsuit in this wrongful death case. She claims that Toyota's negligence in installing faulty floor mats caused her husband...
Subway accident in New York City killed one woman and injured another man
An 18 year-old woman was hit by a New York City Transit subway train in a horrible accident. She was struck by the train in Astoria, Queens and investigators are trying to find out why she was there. There are questions if she suffered a slip and fall on the...
New law in New York after delivery van killed 2 in pedestrian accident
A delivery van motor vehicle accident last year killed 2 children in lower Manhattan, New York City. The victims were pedestrians walking on the sidewalk when they were hit by the negligent driver in the accident. A new law with harsher penalties for unsafe drivers is in the works and ready...
New York City bus driver will have his day in court after suffering head injury in assault at work
A Brooklyn, NY bus driver was assaulted in an on the job injury. He was driving his usual route when a passenger assaulted him causing an injury to his head. The man who assaulted him was recently indicted in court. The injured victim continues to suffer with headaches, an eye injury,...
Ground Zero sick and injured workers offered settlement of $712.5 Million
Rescuers and workers who suffered an accident injury or illness from working at The World Trade Center after 9/11 are being offered a settlement. Thousands of workers have filed worker compensation and personal injury lawsuits with New York attorneys. The City of New York is offering them about $712.5 million...
Do companies move fast enough to protect your baby from injury from their dangerous products?
Recent defective product recalls include everything from breakfast cereals to baby cribs to medicines. However, slow product recalls put consumers at risk for personal injury or wrongful death. In a rush to make a profit companies mass produce consumer products and leave quality control on the sidelines. Yet another dangerous...
Tylenol Recall -- Johnson and Johnson may be negligent in delaying recall of defective medications
Preventing product liability lawsuits is a major reason companies issue defective product recalls. However, who's really watching out for consumers? Who's making sure companies issue quick recalls before dangerous medicines or products cause personal injury or wrongful death? These are the questions being asked by New York Democrat, Representative Edolphus...
Street Cameras Meant for Personal Injury Prevention May Actually Increase Car Accidents
Florida drivers are slamming their brakes at three West Palm Beach intersections now that City officials posted cameras on the traffic lights. The new cameras are stirring a controversy regarding personal injury prevention and injury promotion. Critics contend that the cameras are leading more drivers to stop abruptly, upon noticing...
New York Judge Breaks Settlement, Sides with 9/11 Personal Injury Victims
Judge Alvin Hellerstein takes clear stand with the New York City injury victims of 9/11. The case involved on the job injury claims by approximately 10,000 rescue workers at Ground Zero. In March, the New York judge rejected a $657 Million settlement, contending that it failed to sufficiently compensate the...
Elle's Law Aims at Fighting New York Pedestrian Car Accidents
Three and a half year old Elle Vandenberghe was run over and left brain damaged, due to a negligent New York driver looking for a parking spot. The victim's parents are now pushing a new law to make it a crime of third-degree vehicular assault when a driver knowingly breaks traffic...
Staten Island Fights New York School Bus Accidents. Stop on Red!
Staten Island Assemblyman Michael Cusick says 50,000 New York accidents occur each year, due to drivers who negligently pass school buses whose red lights are flashing. Many car and truck drivers disregard the state law, and pass, creating dangerous conditions. New York State law requires that drivers from all directions,...
OSHA Increasing Penalties in order to Decrease Workplace Injury
According to IMT Research, 4.6 Million workers have serious personal injuries every year. This includes construction injury, on-the-job slip and fall, trip and fall, negligence and dangerous work conditions. The US Government's Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) launched the Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP), which calls...
NY Car Accident Alert: Heavy vehicles not safe enough in rollovers
NY Personal injury lawyers wrote about the dangers of rollover injury in car accidents, and showed you a video of one too. Consumer safety organizations are pressuring the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to demand safer rollover protection for larger vehicles. At present, the NHTSA requires that the roofs of...
Privacy Violation: Students claim Pennsylvania school violated their civil personal rights
Privacy violations are another type of personal injury damages. Philadelphia's Lower Merion school district thought it was fighting crime by installing a centralized webcam applications on student laptops. In a personal injury lawsuit, students contend that the school did just the opposite. Intended to prevent laptop theft, the cameras kept...
Reduce Construction Accidents with Work Zone Awareness Week
Personal injury from construction accidents can multiply in scope when mixed with speeding cars. And so, New York City Department of Transportation is launching a week dedicated to public awareness regarding work zone safety. Road maintenance aims to make roads safer for cars. But careless attention to work zones, creates...
Personal Injury Lawyers Expect Toyota to Pay Fines Plus $4 Billion
Toyota knew it had a problem but waited, says the US government. Product safety laws require manufacturers to notify the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration within five days of discovery of a product safety problem. Toyota discovered its floor-pedal accelerator problem, but waited on going public. The US government fined...
New York Injury Lawyers Pray for Survival of Missing Coal Miners
New York injury lawyers are joining nationwide hopes for West Virgina's four missing coal miners. Workers at the coal plant contend that dangerous work conditions, including poor ventilation, led to a dangerous buildup of methane gas. The gas allegedly prompted an explosion which has so claimed at least twenty-five lives. The last major coal mining...
Product Liability: Dangerous Baby Sling Causes Suffocation
NY Personal injury lawyers stand up for the rights of their injured clients. Injuries include pain and wrongful death due to negligent production, maintenance or care of consumer products. This are is commonly known, as product liability. We recently covered the Toyota product safety recall. Now, we want to turn head toward...
More Toyota Woes or Bogus Injury Claims?
We blogged about Toyota's gas pedal shortly after Toyota's January 21 recall announcement. As expected the numbers are pouring in. Recently, a NY woman claimed her Prius unexpectedly accelerated down a Westchester driveway, crossed the road, and smashed into a stone wall, crushing in the front body of the car. The Catch: the...
Shamu Killer Accident: A Double Standard for Dangerous Pets
Imagine a dangerous dog that without any provocation, brutally killed two humans. Would the State law allow the creature to continue to roam? Not in Florida, says David Horowitz. According to Florida law, an animal's owner bears responsibility to put a dangerous pet to sleep once it exhibits aggressive, severely injurious behavior. But Shamu is apparently different, and...
How to Prevent A Snow Shoveling Injury
Pretty much any New York injury lawyer knows that snow and ice can create dangerous conditions. Cars and pedestrians can slip on the ice, lose orientation and hit the ground. On the other hand, says Business Week, shoveling the snow can be dangerous too. New York personal injury lawyer lifts its snow-cap in gratitude to...
New York Text Message Injuries Rising Fast
According to Hudson Valley NY's Daily Freeman, 1,000 pedestrians got injured in the USA in 2008 due to text-message distractions while walking. The high injury rate is double the 2007 figures, and quadruple the 2006 figures. This confirms a basic premise that NY personal injury lawyers have articulated: More Technology...
Toyota Product Recall Aims to Prevent Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
Consumers beware. On January 21, Toyota announced a recall of 2.3 Million cars and SUVs in the USA, plus millions more overseas. The cause: A faulty accelerator pedal that gets stuck in a floored position. NY personal injury lawyers point out that the Toyota pedal, if unfixed, creates a significant dangerous condition for drivers, pedestrian...
The Flip Side of A Wrongful Arrest
New York personal injury attorneys help injury victims get compensation for pain, suffering, and humiliation by others. Sometimes even NYPD police officers are at fault for making false arrests or using excessive force. But sometimes cops are the ones getting hurt while enforcing the law. And so, NY personal injury lawyer turns...
Best New York Personal Injury Lawyers Hold Doctors Accountable for Negligence
Had a personal injury, car accident or malpractice that left you or a loved one in a hospital? According to the NY Times, 98,000 patients die in the US every year due to avoidable hospital mistakes. This includes medical malpractice, negligence, errors and omissions. New York's best personal injury lawyers know...
Snow Chunks on Roof Cause Ice Car Injury and Car Accident
Loyal readers may recall that we wrote about this issue in an October piece, Get the Ice Off Your Car, or Face New Jersey Law. But now that snow is coming down this January, top NY personal injury lawyers feel the message abut snow ice injury is well worth repeating. Before setting out on the...
Myths & Facts About NY Personal Injury Law
In a recent piece at Ithaca Journal, Michael Getnick, President of the NY Bar Association, raises a strong argument against the Obama administration's proposed changes to and limitations on medical malpractice claims. As leading NY personal injury lawyers attest, Personal injury can adversely effect a person's long-term life well-being, health, and ability to function....
Mass Transit Accident Victims Still Fighting NY
A personal injury can happen anywhere, on a train, bus, subway or ferry. Top NY injury attorneys know it. They have taken on the NY City Transit Authority and demanded fair compensation for bus and other transit injury victims. For example, injury lawyers won $1.9 Million in compensation for a NY pedestrian hit by...
Prevent A NY Pedestrian Injury: Remove Your iPod Headphones
Cities across the US are running ad campaigns and pursuing legal reform to help prevent pedestrian injuries such as car knock overs, car crashes, and train and bus hits. Top NY personal injury lawyer are pleased to see the cities, such as San Fransisco and Columbus, taking proactive approaches to prevent injury. In...
Busted :: Bogus NY Worker Compensation Claims
When a worker gets hurt on the job, such as due to a dangerous condition, he/she is often entitled to worker compensation for the NY job injury. If an employee collects worker's comp for his job accident, he gives up his right to sue the employer for negligence. As such, it pays for an NY...
NY Kite Injury Victim Says Park Negligent, Caused NY Personal Injury
In Asian Kite Fighting, runners line their kite strings with sharp glass and metal, in the hope of slicing down opposing kites. The sport has a history of dangerous conditions in countries such as, India, Korea and Pakistan. When player brought the sport to a New York City park, a serious dangerous condition ensued, says top...
New York Wrongful Death in Brooklyn Elevator Shaft
Tall buildings and cranky elevators are commonplace in the city that never sleeps. Unfortunately, so is accident injury and wrongful death, declare NY personal injury lawyers. Last weekend, Gerhardt Fuchs, a talented Brooklyn drummer, fell down an elevator shaft, while trying to escape from the stalled lift. Fuchs was on his way to a...
Baby Car Seat Poses Dangerous Condition, Warns NY Personal Injury Lawyer
Consumer Reports issued a strong warning to parents to help them prevent a personal injury. The Message: Use infant car seats for their intended purposes and nothing else. Top NY personal injury attorneys have seen brain injury resulting from medical malpractice and car accidents. Indeed, child car seats help prevent New York...
Flu Vaccinations :: NY Personal Injury vs. Public Protection
Two months ago, Top NY Personal injury Lawyers wrote about the efforts of New York hospitals to brace for Swine Flu injuries. Fears of claims regarding medical malpractice, negligence and failure to diagnose prompted some medical centers to order wall-to-wall supplies of the H1N1 vaccine. Suppose a patient walks into a NY hospital and presents signs of the disease,...
Get the Ice Off Your Car, or Face New Jersey Law
Snow, ice, slush and freezing cold temperatures make New York driving a dangerous condition for even the most experienced driver. Now imagine the force of a solid, twenty pounds chunk of ice shooting off an oncoming truck along a highway and smashing through the glass of a car windshield or...
A New York Personal Injury Lawyer's Perspective on Delaware Kindergarten Suspension
Fox News, the New York Times and other media outlets recently scooped the story of Zachary Christie, a Six year-old boy suspended from school for forty-five days. The offense: The kindergarten boy brought a combined Fork, Spoon, Knife tool to school for use at Lunch. While no personal injury was caused, the school classified...
Long Island New York Hospital Leaves Patient on Operating Table
Hospitals make mistakes. Errors and omissions can occur before, during, and after any given medical procedure, say New York's personal injury attorneys. In fact, New York hospitals have a history of medical malpractice. Recall the $3 Million Meningitis Medical Malpractice in which Morrison & Wagner successfully proved a NY hospital's failure to diagnose. Recently, New...
Pedestrian Injury :: Car Hits New York Man Crossing Street, Again
Manhattan is known as the, "City that Never Sleeps." New York streets are filled with people walking and cars driving. But with all the action, comes accidents, say New York personal injury lawyers. This week, a Westchester man tried crossing a street while in a wheelchair. In broad daylight, an oncoming car hit...
Personal Injury Attorneys Say, Watch Out for Elevators
Nowadays, elevators have become standard parts of the lives of millions of New Yorkers who live and work in sky-high buildings. Like sidewalks, public buses and parking lots, elevators can also cause serious personal injury, caution top New York personal injury attorneys. A 1994 study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) documented as many as 7,300 escalator and 9,800...
Prevent New York Car Accident Injury & Death :: Check Your Infant Car Seat
Top New York Personal injury lawyers help victims of all ages, including infants and seniors. For instance, see this $1,900,000 story about an elderly man person struck in a Transit Authority bus injury. According to New York State Police, "Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 3 to 6,...
Medical Malpractice Fears Driving New York Hospitals to Brace for Swine Flu Injury
New York Hospitals are bracing for the worst, say New York personal injury lawyers. According to this week's NY Daily News, forty-seven New Yorkers have already died wrongful deaths due to Swine Flu H1N1 infections. Medical centers are fearful, trying hard to avoid a failure to diagnose a Swine Flu H1N1 infection. New York...
Fight Against Cancer & Infection :: Merck Vaccine Wins Again
Hospitals and doctors frequently prescribe heavy drugs in efforts to treat infection and its accompanying injury. But top New York injury lawyers insist that an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. Failure to diagnose and treat an infection can lead to long-term personal injury, pain and suffering. In a classic instance of...
Personal Injury of Close Kind : Family Fight Causes Serious Head Injury
Where do Personal Injuries occur? In short, say New York personal injury lawyers -- Anywhere. A personal injury may occur on a stranger's property, such as while walking through a parking lot or even in one's own home. These cases are known as premises liability injuries. When such happens, a mortgage company, building owner, or caretaker may be...
Birth Injury: Hospital Negligence Causes Infant Death
Babies are born every hour in New York's busy hospitals. Unfortunately, medical malpractice strikes with similar vengeance, say New York's top personal injury lawyers. Maryland hospitals show the same trend. According to a Maryland jury, these first-time parents lost their newborn son due to avoidable childbirth complications. Their obstetrician elected to force the baby out during birth, using...
Wrongful Death While Waiting in Hospital Emergency Room
Personal injury victims, like New York car accident victims and pedestrians, often head straight to the hospital for urgent medical care. But many discover that Hospital Emergency Rooms can be traumatic and fatal places, especially for those who cannot get in. Take this story of a 58-year old man who died of a...
Michael Jackson May Have Gotten More for His Burn Injuries
Much media coverage has gone to Michael Jackson's 1984 burn accident, while filming a Pepsi commercial. Pepsi ultimately paid Jackson $1.5 Million for his pain, injury and suffering, which later required multiple corrective surgeries, grafting and pain treatment. Looking back, New York's top injury lawyers suggest that Jackson's monetary compensation was relatively...
Pedestrian Injury :: NY City Police Car Accidentally Hits Sidewalk Pedestrians
Police officers face a big responsibility in protecting the public. But sometimes, in the course of protecting, police accidentally cause personal injuries to bystanders, other cars, buses and other vehicles. Injuries include head injuries, wrongful death, wrongful arrest or excessive force. This is especially true in densely populated cities, such as New York....
Nursing Home Negligence Causes Wrongful Death
Personal injury often involves professionals providing negligent care for senior citizens, the infirmed and children. To illustrate, see this $3 Million medical malpractice involving failure to diagnose, for a two-year old, and this failure to diagnose an infant infection. According to top accident and injury lawyers, these types of slip and falls are often blatantly preventable, if negligent parties...
NY Dog Owners Liable for Personal Injury from Dog Bites
New York residents see dogs walking up and down Manhattan streets. Many dogs are friendly; others are not. Dog bites occur all the time, resulting in serious cuts, pain, personal injuries, infection and even wrongful death. When a dog bites, an owner may be held responsible for compensation. Top New York...
Greater Technology, More Pedestrian Injuries. Why are New York pedestrians and drivers getting hurt every day?
For years, personal injury lawyers warned New Yorkers and others about the dangers of motor vehicle accidents and pedestrian injuries. For example, we covered this story about an MTA NY City Transit Authority bus that hit a senior citizen, and caused sever brain damage, resulting in almost Two Million dollars in...
New Yorkers Beware :: SUV Rollovers Still Kill Thousands in Car Accidents
According to the NY Times, vehicle rollovers cause over 10,000 motor vehicle wrongful deaths and personal injuries in the USA every year. Rollovers occur most frequently with SUVs and pickup trucks, due their high center of gravity and reduced stability, relative to cars. New Yorkers must watch out, say NY injury lawyers, since...
Dangerous Asbestos Workplace Causes Wrongful Death At Home
Many people have heard of dangerous workplaces and workplace injuries. Take for example, this Bronx construction worker who got injured in a fall from a New York scaffold. In addition, this 62-year old steelworker got a personal injury while working on the job. In both cases, thanks to top personal injury lawyers, accident victims and families...
Congress OK's New York Bill Increasing Medical Malpractice Rights for Patients
People get hurt all the time due to medical malpractice by physicians, nurses, and medical practitioners. For example, see this story about New York hospital's failure to diagnose an infection in a child's hips. Fortunately, leading New York personal injury lawyers won $3,425,000 for the victim's family. We also reported on...
Construction Worker Awarded Nearly $1 Million for on the Job Scaffolding Injury
Working with tools and construction machinery can be dangerous. For instance, we reported on this Bronx construction worker who fell from an 8-foot scaffold, and broke his ankle while doing his job. Fortunately, his employer, a New York Steel company, paid him over $600,000 for his injuries, thanks to the man's winning personal injury attorney....
New York's Morrison & Wagner LLP Launches Injury Attorney Blog
Continuing to serve New York's public for over twenty-four years, the successful Manhattan firm Morrison & Wagner announced the release of the new Injury Attorney Blog. Utilizing Web 2.0 technologies like Delicious and Digg, the new blog presents valuable personal injury news, sample cases, and helpful tips directly to those injured in personal accidents, workplace...
You've Got Personal Injury Rights at Land and Sea
Did you know that the US government provides a variety of laws that protect the rights of injured people at land and at sea. According to this recent analysis, US law specifically protects employees injured in workplace accidents, such as sea crew members, railroad workers and other on the job injuries. Two...
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