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 tracks. Another...
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...
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...
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...
