The Orlow Firm, a law firm of commercial vehicle accident attorneys in New York, discusses rollover bus accidents in NYC (accidents where the bus has flipped over, and rolls onto open road.) Click here to read the full article. As seen on http://www.truckaccidentsnewyork.com.
Even with the driving limits and regulations placed on truck drivers for safety, large commercial vehicles are still some of the most dangerous vehicles on the roads. As New York City Personal Injury Attorneys we have seen all sorts of truck accident cases. Below is a few links to an article containing some stats about [...]
As New York City Personal Injury Attorneys we have handled a lot of truck accident cases. Here is an interesting article detailing some statistics about national truck accidents. Truck Accident Stats Part 1 Truck Accident Stats Part 2
A RECENT CASE In a recent case, the Plaintiff managed to jump out of the way of a fire department vehicle which struck a person standing next to the Plaintiff. Thinking that she was not seriously injured, the Plaintiff did not pursue litigation. The seemingly minor injury eventually turned into a serious injury which required [...]
AM I LIMITED TO GETTING WORKERS COMPENSATION? During the last week of May of this year (2010) alone, there were two serious construction site accidents involving falls from significant heights. One involved a worker at a residential building falling fifty feet while he was working on the building’s steel framework. The other involved a worker [...]
THE “GOOD SAMARITAN” LIABILITY FOR VOLUNTARY ACTS ? A recent news item in New York City showed portions of video from a surveillance camera. Twenty or more people simply passed by a man that was lying on the street. It happened that that man had just saved a woman from a knife wielding attacker and [...]
COLLAPSING CRANES Within just the last several months there have been a spate of crane accidents in New York City, some of which have resulted is serious injury and even death. The latest crane collapse occurred in Brooklyn , at a construction site. Four workers were injured. Not long before that a large crane “tilted,” [...]
INTENTIONAL TORTS We noted previously that a “tort” is simply a civil, as opposed to a criminal, wrong, committed against another. While criminal acts often result in incarceration to the perpetrator, the consequence flowing from the performance of a civil wrong, or “tort”, is the imposition of money damages imposed upon the “tortfeasor” and awarded [...]
RES IPSA LOQUITOR | THE ACT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF As we have discussed before, a sustainable lawsuit requires an injured party to demonstrate the liability (fault) of another, at least to some degree, in having caused the incident that resulted in that injury. Most often this is done through witnesses, with the injured party themselves [...]
STOP & FRISK In 2009 there were approximately 575,000 “Stop & Frisk” reports filed by NYPD officers. Of these, only about 6% resulted in arrests, and another 6% resulted in a summons being issued. The position of the Police Department is that Stop & Frisks are an effective crime-fighting tool. The Department holds onto the [...]
