As reported on our truck accident blog, Leona White of Harlem was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital after a Toyota pickup collided with a livery cab and hit a group of pedestrians on the sidewalk.  This shows the need for tough traffic laws as well as increased safety for New York City sidewalks. The Orlow [...]

Recently a Supreme Court Judge charged the city of New York $5000.00 because he stated that the city did not comply to court orders to show documents to victims families. “Two workers were killed when a 200-foot crane crashed into an apartment building on the Upper East Side in May 2008. The accident happened just [...]

WRONGFUL DEATH | CHILDREN AND INFANTS We have noted that the awards in wrongful death cases in New York State involving the death of children or infants is almost invariably shockingly low to the average lay observer. This is because the permissible guidelines for determining the amount of such award, in New York, are generally [...]

A federal judge awarded $1.6 million to a family as a result of their daughter’s death in an automobile accident. The daughter was an infant and was killed when the car she was in, parked along a Kentucky parkway, was slammed by a U.S. owned vehicle driven by an American soldier. The amount of damages [...]

ELEVATOR ACCIDENTS in New York City| NYC | Attorney In New York City tens of thousands of buildings utilize elevators for their tenants. Among these are 340 public housing complexes, mostly composed of multiple buildings, each of which usually has an elevator. The New York City Housing Authority, the City’s largest landlord, incorporates 3,338 elevators [...]

As Reported by the New York Times, “For the second time in five weeks, a New York City police officer has been arrested on charges of killing a pedestrian while driving drunk, this time in the Bronx, officials said on Friday. Drana Nikac, 67, was killed. The scene, Kingsbridge Avenue at West 232nd Street in [...]

As Reported by the New York Times, A construction worker died after falling 125 feet when a tall construction lift toppled and struck a downtown Philadelphia apartment building, the authorities said. The investigators are looking to see if the construction worker who fell, was properly harnessed and all safety procedures were followed.  According to witnesses [...]

This is a very interesting and sad New York Wrongful Death / Personal Injury Case.

According to the MTA, a New York City Construction worker was killed after a fall. The Workers death was initiated when he was struck by a small crane on the back of the truck while working on the Throg’s  Neck bridge, connecting Queens and the Bronx. The fatal construction accident, occurring August 24, 2009, comes [...]

“The Buffalo police officer was killed in an early morning crash on the I-190. Police say the driver that hit and killed the off-duty officer was drunk. ” “He was a cop who fought against guns, gangs and drugs as part of his job with the police department’s Mobile Response Unit. But it was an [...]