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Officials in New York City Reassessing DWI Test Process
Posted on November 19, 2009Thousands of innocent car accident victims lose their lives or are severely injured each year as a result of drunk drivers. Driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs is illegal in every state. Now, according to an Associated Press news report, New York City officials are reassessing the legal process that determines whether someone was drinking and driving in a serious car accident...
Ford F-150 Airbags Investigated for Sudden Deployment
Posted on November 17, 2009A federal auto safety agency has opened an investigation regarding possible airbag defects in Ford F-150 pickup trucks. According to a news blog in The Car Connection, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation is looking into "inadvertent airbag deployment" in the Ford pickup trucks...
Fatal DWI Car Accident, NYPD Detective Charged
Posted on November 13, 2009A 67-year-old woman was killed in a New York car accident after being struck by the suspected drunk driver. According to the New York Daily News, the driver, a 22-year veteran of the NYPD as well as a high-profile detective, has been charged with DWI, vehicular homicide and criminally negligent homicide in this fatal injury accident...
New York Defective Product Attorneys Concerned By Contaminated Beef
Posted on November 11, 2009Two people are suspected to have died in the latest case of food contamination involving meat that was sold across various New York retail stores. WPIX reports that approximately 546,000 pounds of ground beef are in the process of being recalled due to E...
New York Texting While Driving Ban Goes Into Effect
Posted on November 09, 2009In a move to combat the growing number of serious injury accidents on New York state roadways, legislators have enacted a new law, which makes it illegal to text and drive at the same time. This law also prohibits the use of portable and mobile handheld devices for reading, typing and sending text messages while driving...
Meat Recalled Due to E. Coli Contamination
Posted on November 06, 2009The recent recall of about 546,000 pounds of fresh ground beef distributed in September by Ashville, NY-based Fairbank Farms, has left consumers and citizens concerned about the risk of E. Coli contamination. According to a manufacturing.net article, the recalled meat was sold in stores in New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia...
New Jersey Halloween Auto Accident Proves Fatal
Posted on November 02, 2009A 9-year-old girl died and a 3-year-old boy was seriously injured in a pedestrian accident on Halloween Day. According to an ABC news report, the two children were struck by an SUV while crossing the street. The fatal injury accident occurred when a group of children and adults, many in Halloween costumes and out trick-or-treating, were crossing Washington Avenue in Nutley...
Two Killed in New York City Motorcycle Accident
Posted on October 30, 2009Two men were killed in a Queens New York motorcycle accident after they crashed into a car. According to an ABC News report, the accident occurred at the intersection of 32ns Avenue and 88th Street. The 2008 Yamaha motorcycle, which was westbound on 32nd Avenue struck a Dodge Intrepid, which was going south on 88th Street...
Long Island Auto Accident Kills Man
Posted on October 26, 2009The New York Post reported recently that a Shirley man was hit and fatally injured by a pickup truck on the William Floyd Parkway near Sunrise Highway. The accident happened when a Center Moriches woman driving a 2004 Chevy Silverado hit the man and then fled the scene...
Mitsubishi Recalls Vehicles for Possible Airbag Defects
Posted on October 21, 2009Mitsubishi is recalling about 530 Endeavor vehicles from its 2010 model year because the retainer bracket used for the seat-mounted side airbag frames may not have been properly welded. The airbag could fail in the event of the crash by failing to deploy...
New York City Construction Site Accidents Increase, Deaths Down
Posted on October 19, 2009The number of New York City construction accidents has increased, but there have been fewer fatalities as a result of construction site accidents this year. According to a news report in the Insurance Journal, the number of reported construction accidents in New York increased by more than 40 percent compared to the same period in 2008...
Toyota Recalls Vehicles for Defective Floor Mats
Posted on October 16, 2009Toyota Motor Corp. has issued a large-scale auto product defect recall involving 3.8 million vehicles, the company's largest ever recall in the United States. According to an Associated Press news report, the recall is being issued to address problems with a removable floor mat that could cause accelerators to get stuck and lead to a crash...
Sickened 9/11 Workers Can Sue New York City
Posted on October 14, 2009Thousands of sickened 9/11 recovery workers whose legal claims have been barred because of deadlines will now be able to join a large group suing New York City under a new law signed by Gov. David A. Patterson. According to a news report in Newsday, the law will allow more than 3,000 workers to revive lawsuits that were thrown out by a federal judge in July because they were not filed within 90 days of the workers' conditions being diagnosed...
Family Filed Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Hospital
Posted on October 12, 2009Medical errors, especially those that involve prescription mistakes, are extremely tragic. They result in unnecessary injuries and sometimes even death. These are injuries and deaths that can be easily prevented by having supervision implemented and strict adherence to rules and regulations...
New York Auto Accident Lawyer Concerned about Distracted Drivers
Posted on October 09, 2009Distracted drivers are one of the main causes of serious car accidents in New York City. If you or someone you love has been seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, you may be able to seek compensation for your injuries, damages and loss...
New York Police Officer Compensated for On-the-Job Injury
Posted on October 07, 2009New York work accident injuries can be devastating. Workers or employees who get injured on the job can suffer debilitating injuries that can cause them to lose their job and their livelihood. In such cases, injured victims need representation from an experienced New York workers compensation attorney who can uphold their rights and make sure they get the compensation they rightfully deserve...
New York Fatal Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Accident
Posted on October 05, 2009A pedestrian was killed in what was an apparent hit-and-run car accident in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. The man was in his 20s and was found partially in the roadway. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Police said the man must have been struck by a vehicle that left the scene...
NYPD Officer Faces DUI Charges in Fatal Brooklyn Pedestrian Accident
Posted on October 02, 2009The New York Police Department has suspended two police officers who were involved in a DUI car accident that killed a pedestrian in Brooklyn. According to an ABC News report, one of the officers who was driving the car, was charged in the drunk driving accident that killed a young girl who was crossing the street at East 56th Street and Avenue N...
Auto Accident Fatalities Increase in New York City
Posted on October 01, 2009Fatal auto accidents dramatically rose in New York City in 2008, according to Department of Transportation statistics released recently. According to a news report in the New York Post, one person died every 30 hours in New York City as a result of fatal traffic accidents...
Brooklyn Fatal Construction Accident
Posted on September 28, 2009A construction worker was killed in a New York City construction site accident after he plunged five stories when part of a scaffold collapsed in Brooklyn. According to a news article in the Insurance Journal, the worker had been resurfacing bricks on an apartment building's façade when the accident occurred...
New York City Auto Accident Kills Man
Posted on September 25, 2009A 36-year-old man was killed in a New York car accident after he slammed into the back of a Department of Transportation dump truck on the Brooklyn Bridge, the New York Daily News reports. Traffic investigators believe the man was traveling from his East New York home when he lost control of his 2008 gray Honda Accord and crashed into the truck...
Fatal New York DUI Auto Accident
Posted on September 23, 2009A teenager has been charged with drunk driving after a fatal New York car accident, which killed a 31-year-old man, according to an ABC news report. New York police said a 2008 Lexus four-door gray sedan driven by an 18-year-old man struck a 31-year-old man on Sutter Avenue in Queens, N...
Honda Recalls Cars for Airbag Defects
Posted on September 21, 2009Honda has recalled an additional 440,000 Civic, Accord and Acura TLs to repair a potential airbag defect, according to this CNN news report. This defective auto product recall in New York and throughout our nation involves driver-side airbags in certain 2001-02 Honda Accords, 2001 Civic models and 2002-03 Acura TLs...
Fatal Staten Island Motorcycle Accident
Posted on September 18, 2009A 20-year-old man was critically injured and killed in a Staten Island motorcycle accident after his motorcycle collided with a livery cab. According to a news report in the Staten Island Advance, the motorcyclist was thrown off his bike after he crashed into a livery cab...
More DUI Car Accidents Caused by Women
Posted on September 16, 2009Crime reports show drunk driving arrests among women are rapidly rising in the United States while DUI arrests among men are falling, according to a news report. A fatal New York car accident caused by an intoxicated female driver, which killed eight people including four children, has drawn attention to this issue in the last month...
Queens Hit-and-Run Car Accident Critically Injures Woman
Posted on September 14, 2009A woman suffered critical injuries in a Queens pedestrian accident after an out-of-control van struck her inside Flushing Meadow Park, ABC News reports. Witnesses say the van was weaving in and out of traffic on the Van Wyck Expressway and then sped down the ramp, crashed into a parked vehicle, hopped a curb and then hit the woman...
Defective Blinds and Shades Pose Strangulation Hazard
Posted on September 11, 2009Six companies have recalled about 4.2 million roll-up blinds and 600,000 Roman shades for a strangulation hazard that has reportedly resulted in the death of four young children and the near-strangulation of seven other children. According to a news report in The Baltimore Sun, the blinds and shades were sold at retailers nationwide including Target, Pottery Barn and IKEA...
Texting Ban Takes Effect in New York State
Posted on September 09, 2009New York State lawmakers have officially passed a law that bans texting while driving across the state. According to a WKTV news report, texting while driving was banned in some counties, but now texting while driving is illegal across the entire state...
Contractor Fined in New York City Construction Accident
Posted on September 07, 2009The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined a Long Island concrete contractor $72,000 for repeated safety violations after a worker was injured in a construction accident, the Associated Press reports. Federal safety officials say the worker suffered non-life-threatening injuries in March when he fell 10 feet from the 34th floor to the 33rd floor of a midtown Manhattan building...
Defective Gas Grills Could Cause Burn Injuries
Posted on September 04, 2009Fiesta is issuing a product safety recall for its Blue Ember gas grills after getting reports of burn injuries and other incidents. According to this consumer safety report, Fiesta has received 192 reports of grill fires resulting in nine injuries. Two of these incidents involved major burns on different parts of the body, six incidents of relatively minor burns and one incident involving temporary hearing loss...
New York Man Killed in DUI Car Accident
Posted on September 02, 2009A Queens, New York, man, his sister and his cousin were killed on the Interstate 95 in Georgia after a drunk driver heading the wrong way plowed head-on into their minivan, the New York Daily News reports. The 59-year-old man and five of his relatives were reportedly driving from New York to Florida for a wedding when the pickup truck driven by a drunk driver slammed into their 2001 Mazda MPV...
Long Island Fatal Pedestrian Accident
Posted on August 28, 2009A 51- year-old man was struck and killed by a FedEx truck in a Long Island pedestrian accident. The 25-year-old driver of the FedEx truck has not yet been charged. The man was killed when the truck struck him and then crashed into a line of parked cars...
BMW Recalls Vehicles for Airbag Defects
Posted on August 26, 2009BMW is recalling its 2008 model 1-Series and 3-Series because of an airbag defect that might prevent the side airbag from deploying, causing a serious injury hazard in the event of a car accident. According to this news report, BMW North America officials say the side airbag defect was caused by an incorrect crimp connector that was used on the side airbag and belt tensioner wiring...
New York DUI Car Crashes Cause Significant Injuries
Posted on August 24, 2009Three serious injury-causing driving while intoxicated (DWI) car accidents in New York State have helped shine the limelight on DWI laws in the state. According to this news report, New York State ranks well when it comes to tough DWI laws, which experts say, are sufficient to curb the problem of drunk driving...
New York Motorcycle Accident Injures Woman
Posted on August 21, 2009A woman was injured in a motorcycle accident in New York after the motorcycle she was riding crashed with a pickup truck on Route 611 in Tannersville, the Pocono Record reports. The injured victim was airlifted to the hospital because of the extent of her injuries...
Manhattan Construction Accident Injures Worker
Posted on August 19, 2009A worker was injured in a Manhattan construction accident when he took a fall at the World Trade Center construction site. According to this news report, the worker reportedly fell about five feet and suffered injuries that were not life-threatening. The construction site accident occurred near the intersection of Liberty and West Streets...
New York Car Accident Kills Eight
Posted on August 17, 2009Eight people were killed in a three-vehicle New York car accident, including four children, according to this CNN news report. The car crash involved a minivan carrying five children and one adult that was heading the wrong way on a northbound lane of the Taconic State Parkway, New York State Police said...
New York Pedestrian Accident Injures Seven
Posted on August 14, 2009Seven people were injured in a NY pedestrian accident when an out-of-control car in West New York collided with them, according to this CBS news report. The car apparently crashed into a bevy of shoppers who were gathered for a sidewalk sale on Berginline Avenue...
New York Plane and Helicopter Crash Kills 9, 2 Bodies Still Missing
Posted on August 11, 2009Seven bodies were recovered by divers from the Hudson River on Monday, August 10, 2009 after the wreckage of a plane and sightseeing helicopter was found. According to a report, nine people were tragically killed in the New York air disaster that took place over Manhattan on Saturday, August 8, 2009, with the body of an adult passenger and the small plane?s pilot still missing...
New York's Texting Ban Not Serious, Experts Say
Posted on August 10, 2009New York auto accident attorneys know that texting while driving is a dangerous activity responsible for hundreds of New York car accidents. Distracted drivers can cause accidents resulting in serious personal injury or even death. New York State's texting-while-driving ban is "not serious," observers and experts say...
New York Construction Accident Injures Man
Posted on July 27, 2009A man was reportedly injured in a New York construction accident after a concrete ramp in a parking garage collapsed as he operated a compact construction vehicle. According to this Associated Press news report, the 47-year-old man was driving a payloader in the downtown building when the ramp gave way and fell one floor to the street level...
New York City Auto Accident Injures Eight
Posted on July 24, 2009Eight people, including two New York Police Department officers, were injured after a police patrol car struck another vehicle and several pedestrians the afternoon of June 30, 2009. According to this CBS News report, the car accident in New York occurred on East 5th Street and Avenue D when the patrol car traveling at a high rate of speed on Avenue D crashed into a white sedan turning on to East 5th Street...
Staten Island Ferry Crash Injures 15
Posted on July 22, 2009Fifteen people suffered injuries in a Staten Island ferry accident when the boat slammed into the dock, ABC News reports in a story. The ferry apparently had a "hard docking" when it lost power and struck the St. George's Pier. Officials say preliminary investigations show that the ferry had an electrical transformer malfunction...
GM to Assume Responsibility for Future Product Liability Claims
Posted on July 20, 2009General Motors Corp. has agreed to take responsibility for future auto product liability claims, removing what may have been a huge obstacle on auto maker's path to a quick sale of its assets and emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a "new company...
Six New York Residents Injured in Auto Accident
Posted on July 17, 2009Six New York City residents suffered injuries in a car accident after their Subaru was rear-ended by another car on Route 80 as they were trying to pull over to the shoulder to fix a malfunctioning windshield wiper. According to this news report, the Subaru Forrester was traveling west on the highway's express lanes in Totowa when the driver tried to pull over...
Queens On-the-Job Accident Kills Three Workers
Posted on July 15, 2009Three workers died in a New York City on-the-job accident at a waste transfer plant after being overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes, the Engineering News-Record reports in an account. The men apparently suffered fatal injuries while trying to escape an 18-foot-deep hole filled with three feet of water at the Regal Recycling Plant Co...
William P. Hepner Discusses Products Liability at Yard Sales on CBS News
Posted on July 15, 2009As a partner and trial lawyer at the New York Personal Injury Law Firm of Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro, William P. Hepner was a recent guest on CBS news discussing products liability concerns regarding re-sale of items, specifically yard sales. The CBS video refers to a new law made to protect consumers so that they do not purchase any items that have been previously recalled...
Traumatic Brain Injuries Can be Costly, Emotional
Posted on July 13, 2009Auto accidents constitute one of the leading causes of traumatic brain injuries in the United States. What is traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Basically, it is damage to the brain caused by a blow to the head. Coping with the life-changing consequences of a traumatic brain injury presents a great challenge not only for injury victims and their families, but also to doctors, therapists and society at large...
Motorcycle Accident Kills New York Woman
Posted on July 10, 2009A 25-year-old New York woman was killed in a motorcycle accident after her motorcycle hit the back of a box truck in on the Interstate 95 in Greenwich. According to this news report in the Stamford Advocate, the woman fell off her Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle after striking the truck as she tried to move from the left to the center lanes...
Defective Firestone Tires Recalled
Posted on July 08, 2009Bridgestone/Firestone is recalling about 127,000 Firestone FR 280 tires because the continued use of these tires may lead to vibration and groove cracking, which could result in tread distortion or tread separation causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle and crash...
Dangerous Roadways Cause More Highway Fatalities than Drunk Drivers, Study Finds
Posted on July 06, 2009A dangerously or defectively designed or maintained roadway can result in serious auto accidents in New York causing significant injuries or even death. A new study by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation shows that more than half of the highway auto accident fatalities in the United States are related to dangerous or deficient roadway conditions...
Fatal New York Work Site Accident
Posted on June 19, 2009A 35-year-old worker was killed in a New York on-the-job accident. According to a WBNG news report, Shawn Brown was working on the body of a large recycling truck when the truck bed released and pinned him against the vehicle frame. Brown was located by a co-worker who contacted emergency personnel...
Greyhound Bus Accident Injures Six
Posted on June 17, 2009Six people were hurt in a bus accident in Robinson, Pennsylvania after a sport utility vehicle crashed into a Greyhound bus which was traveling from New York City to St. Louis. Police said the auto accident occurred on the southbound ramp to the Interstate 79 near the parkway in Robinson...
Fatal Queens Car Accident Claims Three Lives
Posted on June 15, 2009Three people have died in a Queens car accident after the driver lost control of his car and struck a concrete barrier, the New York Post reports in a story. New York City police officials say the driver of the 1993 Volvo lost control of his vehicle and crashed...
New York City Construction Accident Injures Worker
Posted on June 12, 2009An ironworker, who was working at the Sept. 11 memorial construction site was hospitalized with hip and arm injuries after a construction accident in New York when he slipped and fell 20 feet. According to this news report, Guido Castro was on a break when he slipped on metal decking on the construction site and fell down one level...
New York Motorcycle Accident Leaves Two Dead
Posted on June 10, 2009Two people died in a New York motorcycle accident following a collision with another vehicle. According to this CBS News report, Robert Williams Jr. and his passenger Sherry Moulton died in the fatal motorcycle crash. They were both 40 years old. Williams was reportedly driving a 2007 Harley Davidson when he passed a dump truck and then crashed into a car, which was making a left turn into the driveway...
Long Island Wal-Mart Faces Fine in Worker's Death
Posted on June 08, 2009The death of a Wal-Mart employee who was crushed to death by ?Day after Thanksgiving? shoppers could have been prevented had Wal-Mart taken the necessary safety precautions, federal officials said. According to an Associated Press news report, the U.S...
New York Truck Accident Leaves One Dead, Two Injured
Posted on June 05, 2009One man died and two others were injured in a car versus truck accident in New York State. According to this news report, 37-year-old Roberto A. Vasquez was driving a tractor-trailer rig north on Route 60 in he town of Charlotte when a southbound GMC Envoy crossed into the northbound lane directly into Vasquez's path...
Staten Island Pedestrian Accident Causes Critical Injuries
Posted on June 03, 2009A Staten Island pedestrian accident inflicted critical injures on a newspaper delivery man after he was struck near the intersection of Arthur Kill Road and Wood Avenue in Tottenville. According to this news report, Arthur Santos, 42, was seriously hurt while completing his route on the Staten Island street...
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled Against New York City Hospital
Posted on June 01, 2009The family of a woman who died on a hospital floor struggling to get up while staffers ignored her, has settled a New York wrongful death lawsuit against New York City for $2 million, according to this news report in the Insurance Journal. Esmin Green's death was recorded on a hospitals security video...
New York City Bus Accident Injures 59
Posted on May 29, 2009New York City Fire Department officials are saying that 59 people suffered injuries in a three-vehicle pileup on New York City's Brooklyn Queen's Expressway. According to a news report in the New York Post, a casino bus, another bus and a tractor-trailer collided...
Fatal New York Motorcycle Accident
Posted on May 27, 2009Timothy Otis, a 37-year-old man died in a New York motorcycle accident, according to this news report. Otis was driving west on Route 25 in St. James when he struck a sport utility vehicle that was turning left on to the roadway. The driver of the SUV was treated and released from the hospital...
Staten Island Fatal DUI Auto Accident
Posted on May 25, 2009Romano Dion Price, 23, was killed in a New York DUI auto accident the morning of April 23 after his 1993 Honda was struck by a suspected drunk driver, the Staten Island Advance reports. George Baldini Jr., a sex offender who has been accused of driving drunk and causing this fatal car accident, has been charged with vehicular manslaughter...
Medford Red Light Runner Causes Chain Reaction Auto Accident
Posted on May 22, 2009Two Suffolk police officers suffered injuries in a Medford street intersection car accident after their marked patrol car was struck by a truck that had been hit by another car, which had run a red light. According to this news report (http://www.newsday...
Harlem DUI Auto Accident Kills Man
Posted on May 20, 2009A man was killed in a Harlem DUI auto accident in New York and his ambulance got into an accident as well as it was rushing him to the hospital, according to this news report. The 20-year-old DUI auto accident victim was struck at West 120th Street and Seventh Avenue...
Defective Drug Raptiva Recalled for Dangerous Side Effects
Posted on May 18, 2009The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that drug maker Genentech has withdrawn the psoriasis drug Raptiva from the market because of its link to drug related injury, one of which is a fatal brain infection. According to this news report, Raptiva could cause potential risk of patients developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML, which is a rare, serious, progressive neurological disease caused by a virus that affects the central nervous system...
New York Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Accident
Posted on May 15, 2009Vincent Frodella, 80, was killed in a hit-and-run pedestrian accident in New York after he wandered into Meadowbrook State Parkway. The Alzheimer's patient wandered away from his home onto the roadway, according to an article in the New York Newsday. Frodella was found in a southbound lane of the roadway and was pronounced dead at a hospital...
Queensbury Car Accident Injures Three
Posted on May 13, 2009Three people were injured in an April 24, 2009 car accident on State Route 9 in Queensbury, the Post Star newspaper reports in a story. The auto accident in New York reportedly occurred when a 1999 Mercury Mystique driven by 20-year-old Joshua Goshea failed to yield the right of way while he made a turn on to Route 9, Warren County Sheriff's officials said...
Infant Restraint Systems Recalled for Mislabeling
Posted on May 11, 2009Team-Tex America Inc. is recalling Babyride infant restraint systems (Model 374199) because of a labeling error, according to this news report. The belt routing label with the "horizontal reference line" is apparently incorrectly placed on the child restraint system...
Central Islip Motorcycle Accident Kills One, Injures Another
Posted on May 08, 2009Michael Campisi, 47 of North Carolina, was killed in a Central Islip motorcycle accident in New York, according to a news report in New York Newsday. The incident happened following a collision with a Cadillac Escalade. Randy Bracciodieta, another motorcyclist who was hit, was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released...
Big Rig versus Car Accident Kills 5, Injures 3 in New Jersey
Posted on May 06, 2009Five people were killed in an auto accident after their car was struck by a tractor trailer in the New Jersey Turnpike and burst into flames, according to this Associated Press news report. The car had apparently been stopped in traffic in the right southbound lane in Mount Laurel when it was struck by the big rig...
Tragic Aviation Accident Kills all 14 Aboard still Under Investigation
Posted on May 04, 2009According to a MSNBC report, the turboprop plane that crashed in a cemetery in Butte, Montana killing all 14 passengers on Sunday, March 22, 2009 was made to hold only ten people. At first, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said they thought the plane could hold eleven people...
Popular Weight Loss Supplement Hydroxycut Recalled
Posted on May 02, 2009Weight Loss Supplement Hydroxycut Recalled Due to Liver Damage, Injuries and Death Hydroxycut, the number one weight loss supplement in the world, was recalled on May 1st by the FDA. The FDA reports that there are at least 23 reports of serious liver injuries and death (http://www...
Natasha Richardson?s Tragic Death Caused by a Traumatic Brain Injury
Posted on May 01, 2009Natasha Richardson, 45, died Wednesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. According to an article, Ms. Richardson?s death was announced Wendesday night by Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the actress?s husband, Liam Neeson. ?Liam Neeson, his sons, and the entire family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha,? a statement said...
Manhattan Auto Accidents Leave One Dead and Several Injured
Posted on April 29, 2009Ysemny Ramos, a 29-year-old pregnant woman was killed and another woman was seriously injured after a commercial van jumped the curb of a midtown Manhattan sidewalk and crashed into a building. According to this Associated Press news report, the car's driver was arrested...
Yonkers Auto Accident Kills Woman
Posted on April 27, 2009A vehicle breakdown led to a New York car accident that killed 71-year-old Christel Bieroth-Rock of Manhattan on the Saw Mill River Parkway on March 23, 2009. According to this article in The Journal News, Bieroth-Rock was waiting in her stalled 1992 Honda Civic after calling AAA for assistance when her car was rear-ended...
New York Auto Rollover Accident Seriously Injures Occupants
Posted on April 24, 2009A two-vehicle collision in Cayuga County injured several people recently when a driver went through a stop sign, reports CNYcentral.COM. According to the report, the car versus minivan accident injured all the occupants of the minivan, including head injuries sustained by the front passenger...
New York City Subway Train Accident Kills Man
Posted on April 22, 2009A man was killed in a New York City subway train accident the morning of March 17, 2009, according to a CBS News report. NYC Transit authorities are looking into how and why the wrongful death in New York occurred at the Lexington Avenue and 60th Street supway station...
Queens On-the-Job Injury of Contractors on NYC Bridge
Posted on April 20, 2009Two workers, who were hired to paint the Queens and Bronx bridge towers, were injured after a large overhead sign fell on to the roadway. According to this news report, the sign and metal support system feel after it was struck by a truck near the Queens side of the Whitestone Bridge...
Suffolk County Pedestrian Hit-and-Run Accident Kills Woman
Posted on April 16, 2009Suffolk County police officials are looking for a hit-and-run driver who they say struck and injured a female pedestrian as she was attempting to cross Sunrise Highway in East Islip, according to this ABC news report. The New York pedestrian accident victim was identified as 25-year-old Heather DiFede...
Queens Auto Accident Caused By Suspected DUI Driver
Posted on April 15, 2009A suspected drunken driver injured a group of people when his speeding vehicle jumped a curb near the street intersection of Steinway Street and Northern Boulevard. According to a news report in the Daily News, 24-year-old Renis Kuci was driving a BMW near the El Noa Noa discotheque in Astoria when he hit the curb...
New Jersey Big Rig versus Auto Accident Kills New York Resident
Posted on April 13, 2009A woman, who died in a recent automobile accident on the New Jersey Turnpike when the sport utility vehicle she was in got struck by a big rig, has been identified as 68-year-old Ruby Riggins. According to this report, Riggins, a Brooklyn resident, was a passenger in the SUV that was being driven by Mellie Riggins, 68, also of Brooklyn...
Long Island Railroad Accident Seriously Injures Man
Posted on April 10, 2009A 44-year-old man suffered serious injuries after he was pinned under a tractor-trailer that became disabled on the Long Island railroad tracks. The man was then struck by a locomotive at the Long Island City grade crossing, according to this report in New York Newsday...
Stamford Personal Injury Lawsuit Filed by Family of Woman Attacked by Chimp
Posted on April 09, 2009The family of Charla Nash, a woman who was attacked and seriously injured by a chimpanzee, is seeking $50 million in damages against the chimp's owner, Sandra Herold, saying she was negligent and reckless. According to this CBS news report, the lawsuit states that Herold knew the 200-pound chimp was agitated when she asked Nash to come to her house on Feb...
South Carolina Hospital Negligence Case Awards Parents
Posted on April 08, 2009The Piedmont Medical Center has been instructed recently by a York County jury to pay damages due to hospital negligence amounting to over $4 million to a South Carolina couple, The Charlotte Observer reported in an article. The couple, Robin and Brice Wilson, had lost their infant daughter during her birth due to a brain injury...
New York City Fatal Construction Accident
Posted on April 07, 2009Anthony Paino, a 28-year-old Staten Island man, was killed in a Manhattan construction accident after he fell from the 10th floor of a hotel under construction on Park Avenue South. According to this news report in the New York Times, Paino fell from a plywood mold used for poured concrete columns and landed on top of the sidewalk shed of an adjacent building...
Burlington County Truck Crash Kills Man
Posted on April 06, 2009A two-vehicle accident near Westampton has killed 61-year-old Johnnie Dixon, a Willingboro resident and proved to be the third motor vehicle related fatality crash of 2009 to occur in Burlington County. According to a recent news report in the Burlington County Times, the Burlington tractor-trailer accident happened on Woodlane Road in icy conditions when the area was under heavy fog...
New York Construction Accident Injures Worker
Posted on April 03, 2009A scaffold collapse in New York has put a construction worker in hospital with serious injuries to his leg, reports the New York Post in a recent story. The incident happened at the site near the New York Public Library as the scaffold came down on a rooftop trapping the victim under rubble...
Suffolk County Auto Accident Kills Pedestrian
Posted on April 01, 2009The man who was hit and killed in a NY car versus pedestrian accident near Park Avenue recently has been identified as 31-year-old Jason Partridge. According to a news report from Newsday.Com, Partridge, a Brentwood resident, was struck by a 2004 Honda as he was crossing Suffolk Avenue...
Staten Island Defective Drug Lawsuit Awards $22.5 Million to Man
Posted on March 31, 2009Dominick Tenuto, a Staten Island man who contracted paralytic polio 30 years ago when his 5-month-old daughter was vaccinated using a live virus, has been awarded $22.5 million in compensation. According to this news report, Tenuto, now 61, was seeking millions from Lederle Laboratories, the manufacturer of the vaccine, Orimune...
New York Medical Malpractice Of Woman Suing Doctor Who Left Surgical Sponge In Her Head
Posted on March 30, 2009A woman is filing for medical malpractice in New York against a surgeon who mistakenly left a surgical sponge inside her brain. According to this UPI news report, 84-year-old Mary Pober?s family alleges that she is constantly at risk for serious head injuries since she lost a portion of her skull in a procedure to retrieve the forgotten sponge...
Staten Island Auto Accident Kills Couple
Posted on March 27, 2009Authorities in Staten Island have arrested a 24-year-old man who they say sped through a red light and slammed into a livery cab killing 50-year-old Mohamed Elnahal and his wife, 52-year-old Mervat Saad Ibrahim. According to this news report, Theodore Ricks is facing a number of charges including manslaughter in the second degree, unlicensed operation of a vehicle, leaving the scene of the accident and possession of marijuana...
New York City Pedestrian Accident Injures Woman
Posted on March 26, 2009A woman was seriously injured on Broadway after she was struck by a car, which then crashed into a barrier and rolled over on Broadway at 120th Street. According to this news report, the vehicle was traveling south on Broadway when it hit the woman, slammed into the median and overturned, eventually coming to rest in the middle of the roadway...
Belle Terre Auto Accident Proves Fatal
Posted on March 25, 2009Richard Cunningham, 20, was killed in a Sunday night Belle Terre automobile accident that also injured two others, according to an article from the Newsday website. Cunningham reportedly failed to negotiate a curve and crossed lanes hitting an oncoming 2008 Lincoln Navigator...
Queens Hit and Run Accident Seriously Injures Teen
Posted on March 23, 2009On November 15, the New York Daily News reported in a story that Dimitri Arvanitogiannis, 19, was seriously hurt in an intentional New York hit and run accident. Arvanitogiannis was nearly killed when he was hit by a Honda Civic being driven by another 19 year old whose name was not yet released by the authorities...
Manhattan Elevator Accident Injures Woman
Posted on March 20, 2009The New York Times reported in an article on October 30, 2008 that Jolanda Joyce, 28, fell down an elevator shaft shortly after midnight. Fortunately for Joyce she was only on the 1st floor and managed to avoid serious injuries after falling an estimated 5 to 10 feet in this elevator accident in Manhattan...
Rockaway Township Auto Accident Results in Parents Filing Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Posted on March 18, 2009The parents of a 21-year-old man, who was killed two years ago when his Jeep fell off a 90-foot cliff at a Rockaway Township quarry, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the operator of the quarry and a restaurant where the man drank before the fatal accident occurred...
New York Pedestrian Accidents Occur In Large Numbers In One Day, 2 Dead
Posted on March 16, 2009The ny1.com website reported in a story on October 24, that a principally high number of pedestrian accidents in New York occurred on that particular Friday. Sadly, two of those accidents resulted in the wrongful death of two senior citizens while leaving several others injured...
Manhattan Pedestrian Accident Caused By Taxis Kills 2
Posted on March 13, 2009On October 4, the website ny1.com reported in an article that two young women suffered fatal injuries in a terrible pedestrian accident in Manhattan involving two taxis in the East Village of Manhattan. Stephaine Dees, 26, from Queens, and Ann Sullivan, 26, from Albany were walking across 14th Street along First Avenue sometime around 3:30 a...
Harlem Pedestrian Accidents Motivate Teen To Get Traffic Light Installed
Posted on March 11, 2009A report on the ny1.com website spotlights the story of Cecelia Torres 16, who is a member of Keystone Leadership club in East Harlem. Cecelia successfully petitioned the city?s department of transportation to install a traffic light on the intersection of 101st Street and Third Avenue...
New York Elevator Accidents To Be Prevented
Posted on March 09, 2009A recent article in the NY Daily News explains that the City Council has demanded that the Housing Authority immediately upgrade its most dangerous elevators. This follows the Housing Authority?s announcement that they would be replacing 550 frequently malfunctioning elevators in New York over the next five years...
New York City Bus Accident Injures 10
Posted on February 25, 2009An auto accident in Brooklyn involving a New York City bus has injured 10 people ? one of them seriously. According to this recent Associated Press report, the injury crash happened January 20, 2009 at the street intersection of 49th Street and 14th Avenue...
New York Delivery Truck Accident Kills 2 Children
Posted on February 23, 2009Hayley Ng, 4, and Diego Martinez, 3, died in a Manhattan auto versus pedestrian accident that occurred when an unoccupied delivery van hit a group of children, reports The Blade in a recent article. A third child was seriously injured and 14 other children were hospitalized with minor injuries, police said...
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed By Parents Of Auto Victim
Posted on February 20, 2009The parents of a New Jersey man killed nearly two years ago have filed a lawsuit against the driver of the vehicle, The Star-Ledger reports. The plaintiffs, Norma Jean and John Grieves, alleged that driver Adam Gibbon was ?careless and negligent? when he wrecked his Audi S4 on March 13, 2007 on a road in Washington Township...
Staten Island Sanitation Worker Suffers Foot Injuries On the Job
Posted on February 18, 2009A worker was seriously injured at Staten Island?s Fresh Kills landfill after a bulldozer ran over his legs. According to this news report, 61-year-old Charles Kish was airlifted to a local hospital by a medical helicopter. Kish reportedly suffered serious toe damage to his left foot and a laceration to his right leg...
Bill Seeks Ban on Electronic Devices by Train Operators
Posted on February 16, 2009A bill sponsored by New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan seeks to ban train conductors and bus drivers from text messaging or sending e-mails when their vehicles are moving. According to this news report, only emergency electronic communication would be allowed under this particular bill...
Worker Suffers Broken Leg in New York Construction Accident
Posted on February 13, 2009A New York City construction worker suffered a broken leg in an on-the-job accident that occurred at a toxic ground zero tower where two firefighters were killed more than a year ago. According to this Associated Press news report, the accident happened at the basement level of the former Deutsche Bank tower, where the workers were removing debris...
Clarence New York Plane Crash Tragically Kills 50
Posted on February 13, 2009A commuter plane ? Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, N.J. -- missed the Buffalo airport coming in for a landing and crashed into a suburban house in a fiery crash. According to this Associated Press news report, 49 people aboard and one person in the home were killed in this nation?s first deadly crash of a commercial airliner since 2006...
Defective Play Yards Create Fall and Entrapment Hazard
Posted on February 09, 2009Fisher-Price is recalling about 200,000 Simplicity Rainforest portable play yards after they received numerous complaints of rails collapsing and creating a fall and entrapment hazard to young children. According to this news report, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Fisher-Price is voluntarily recalling these defective products although it did not manufacture them...
Dodge Ram Trucks Recalled For Defective Steering
Posted on February 06, 2009Chrysler is recalling about 33,000 model year 2009-09 Dodge Ram 2500, 3500 and 3500 cab chassis pickup trucks, according to a recent report in Consumeraffairs.com. The recall involves these Dodge trucks which are equipped with a steering linkage from the supplier, Powers and Sons...
Staten Island Drunk Driver Causes Injury Crash
Posted on February 03, 2009A woman suffered severe injuries after a drunk driver reportedly crashed into her car and then narrowly missed colliding head-on with a police cruiser in Staten Island. According to this news report , Anthony Gentner, 21, is being charged with felony reckless endangerment and other counts in the police chase which began on the Martin Luther King Expressway and ended at the College of Staten Island in Willowbrook...
Family of Wal-Mart Worker Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Posted on January 26, 2009The family of a Wal-Mart employee, who was trampled to death inside a New York store during a post Thanksgiving sale, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the major retailer. According to this CNN news report, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was crushed as he and other employees tried to unlock the doors of the Wal-Mart at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, New York, the day after Thanksgiving...
Defective Cooper Tires Recalled for Possible Tread Separation
Posted on January 23, 2009Cooper Tire is recalling its defective CS4 Touring (VR) tires because the tire treads can separate causing a loss of vehicle control and a crash. According to this news report, the faulty tires may have been cured for an inadequate amount of time, which can lead to the tire tread separation...
Woman Sues Plaxico Burress In Connection with Florida Auto Accident
Posted on January 19, 2009A 27-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit against New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress alleging that he is responsible for a Florida car crash in May that left her with neck and back injuries. According to this news report, Alise Smith?s lawsuit states Burress rear-ended her vehicle on Florida?s Turnpike in Tamarac...
US Airways Plane Crashes Into Hudson River
Posted on January 15, 2009Full details have yet to be confirmed, but it appears that another New York airplane accident has occurred, this time just outside of Manhattan. A US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River today, January 15th. There were no initial reports of deaths or serious injuries...
General Motors SUVs Recalled for Defective Seat Belts
Posted on January 14, 2009General Motors has recalled about 16,000 of its 2009 models of its Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook because of a problem with the rear seat belt buckle assembly. According to this report, the sport utility vehicles may have been built with a safety buckle in the second or third row that is missing a rivet...
New York Fire Truck versus Bus Crash Injures 30
Posted on January 11, 2009A New York City Fire Department truck crashed into a city bus when it was responding to an emergency, injuring 30 people. According to this United Press International news report, the December 16, 2008 NY bus accident occurred when the fire truck was speeding to a car fire Tuesday and crashed into B15 bus...
Defective High Chairs Cause Numerous Injuries among Children
Posted on January 07, 2009Evenflo is recalling close to 95,000 Majestic high chairs because these products pose a hazard to children when some of the parts come loose and seat backs fall off. According to this Associated Press news report, there have been a number of reports of injuries among children who were placed on these defective chairs ? from broken bones to head injuries...
Settlement in New York Workplace Discrimination Lawsuit
Posted on January 03, 2009A former NASCAR official has agreed to a confidential settlement in connection with a $225-million racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit she filed against her former employer. According to this Associated Press news report, Maurica Grant is happy with the settlement whose terms were not disclosed...
Mechanical Problems May Have Caused New Jersey Aviation Accident
Posted on December 27, 2008Jason Snyder, 33, and his 34-year-old Jennifer Snyder, were critically injured after their Beechcraft Sundowner Model 23 airplane crashed in Linden, New Jersey, on December 21, 2008. According to this news report, the aircraft went down near Linden Avenue and Pleasant Street...
Woman Charged in DWI Accident That Killed Man in Wheelchair
Posted on December 22, 2008A 24-year-old New York woman has been indicted in the hit-and-run death of 51-year-old Ranford Beckford, the New York Newsday reports. Police say Lauren Dean was driving drunk when she hit Beckford?s motorized wheelchair in Coram. New York. Dean then reportedly fled the scene of the New York auto accident...
Manhattan Construction Accident Seriously Injures Worker
Posted on December 18, 2008Four construction workers were injured ? one seriously ? during a pre-dawn excavation accident at a building side in midtown Manhattan, according to this Newsday report. The injuries occurred after a ?structural collapse? on West 42nd Street on December 11, 2008...
Did Defective Seatbelt Cause Ejection from Car during Fatal Crash?
Posted on November 19, 2008Man Ejected from Car during Crash Killed on Staten Island Expressway A 52-year-old man reportedly died of injuries he suffered during an auto accident on November 25, 2008 on the Staten Island Expressway. According to this news report, the victim, who has not yet been identified, was taken to an area hospital after the car he was a passenger in careened into a guardrail on the Staten Island Expressway near its merge with the West Shore Expressway...
Staten Island Hit-and-Run Accident Kills Man
Posted on November 17, 2008Antonio Romano, 55, died in a Staten Island pedestrian hit-and-run accident on November 3, 2008, the Staten Island Advance reports. Romano was found about 20 feet in front of his black 2008 Honda Accord on North Railroad Avenue near the intersection of Atlantic Avenue...
New York Man Killed in Motorcycle Crash
Posted on November 13, 2008Casey G. Mehlinger, 47, of Shirley, New York, died in a motorcycle accident in Upper Tulpehocken Township on November 28, 2008. According to this article, Mehlinger was riding his motorcycle along Bloody Spring Road near Route 183 when his motorcycle crossed the westbound lane, left the road and hit a tree...
Defective IKEA Roman Blinds Recalled for Strangulation Hazard
Posted on November 11, 2008The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has recalled about 670,000 of IKEA?s defective IRIS and ALVINE Roman blinds because of a strangulation hazard for young children. According to this CPSC alert, young children can get strangulated when they place their neck in an exposed inner cord on the backside of the defective blinds...
Honda Recalls Vehicles for Defective Airbags
Posted on November 07, 2008Honda is recalling about 4,000 of its model year 2001 Accord and Civic vehicles for airbag defects, according to this news report. The driver?s side airbag inflator could produce excessive internal pressure, possibly causing the airbag to rupture when it deploys during an auto accident...
Henrietta Auto Accident Inflicts Fatal Injuries
Posted on November 05, 2008An 82-year-old woman has died from injuries she suffered in a Nov. 7 chain reaction car accident in Henrietta that injured several people, according to this news report. Sally Erwin died on November 22, 2008. The incident reportedly occurred on East Henrietta Road when a vehicle rear-ended a second car, which was then pushed into the oncoming lane hitting a third car...
Farmingdale Head-on DUI Collision Kills Student
Posted on November 03, 2008Jason Shein, 21, was killed in a Farmingdale head-on collision which officials say was caused by a suspected drunk driver. Persi Esquivel, 46, has been arrested on manslaughter and 11 other charges. According to a news report in Newsday, Esquivel lost control of his 2000 Ford Explorer, crossed the double yellow line and slammed his SUV head-on into Shein?s 1998 Chrysler Sebring convertible...
Deadly DWI Crash Leaves Teenager as Suspect
Posted on October 30, 2008An Avon teenager had pleaded not guilty in a deadly DWI truck accident in New York that killed a 16-year-old boy in October. Aaron Boop, 19, faces four felonies and three misdemeanors including vehicular manslaughter and DWI charges, according to this news report...
Dangerous Roadway on Staten Island Causes Another Crash and Injury
Posted on October 28, 2008Another Crash Occurs on Dangerous Stretch of Staten Island Roadway Alfred Spinelli, 37, was hospitalized after he crashed into a pole located on a controversial roadway on Staten Island, which many neighbors have said has been a dangerous roadway for motorists, the Staten Island Advance reports...
Travis Barker Files Personal Injury Lawsuit in Learjet Crash
Posted on October 24, 2008Former Blink-182 drummer who suffered severe burn injuries in an aviation accident has filed a product liability lawsuit against the aircraft and tire manufacturer seeking compensation for damages and personal injury. According to this news report, Barker alleges in his lawsuit that the Learjet crash caused him ?great physical, mental and nervous pain and suffering...
Woman Killed In Wading River Auto Accident
Posted on October 22, 2008Jennifer Mager, 37, was killed in an auto accident in Wading River Sept. 26, New York Newday reports. Mager was reportedly a passenger in the 2008 Toyota sport utility vehicle driven by her 49-year-old husband, Thomas Mager. Their 2-year-old daughter was also in the vehicle...
New York Plastic Surgeon Faces Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Posted on October 20, 2008The family of an Irish woman, who died after she had a face lift surgery in New York, has sued the plastic surgeon who they say is responsible for the death of 42-year-old Kay Cregan. The woman underwent the surgery performed by plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Even Sachs in his Manhattan Clinic at Central Park South on March 14, 2005, according to this news report...
Fatal Manhattan Construction Accident
Posted on October 17, 2008Anthony Esposito, a construction worker, plunged about 40 stories to his death from a Manhattan skyscraper that was being constructed by the developer of the World Trade Center, according to this news report. Esposito was a rigger on a crew dismantling a crane and is said to have fallen either from the crane or a 20-foot movable walkway linking it to the skyscraper...
Pedestrian Accident Kills Mother of Two
Posted on October 15, 2008New York Daily News reported on September 27, 2008 that a bicyclist slammed into Nasreem Hossain, 38, mother of two, as she crossed a Brooklyn street. The force of the impact from the Brooklyn pedestrian accident rendered her brain dead at the moment of collision...
6 Year Old Killed At Intersection
Posted on October 10, 2008The New York Daily News Reported on September 27, 2008 that Clarente Turner, a first grader, was being walked home after school by his mother when the two of them were struck on a Kings Highway median at E. 95th St. in East Flatbush. Clarente died instantly...
Delivering Mothers Become Ill With Meningitis After Birth
Posted on October 06, 2008On Monday September 29, 2008 the associated press reported that two women became sick with meningitis after giving birth at Staten Island University Hospital; fortunately the two babies are healthy. The city department of Health is investigating the cases...
Dangerous Roadways In Queens Named By Hospital
Posted on October 03, 2008The New York Daily News reported on September 22, that the doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Center have named the most dangerous roadways in the borough of Queens. While Queens Boulevard is infamously known as the ?boulevard of death? many other streets in the borough have also been deemed hazardous...
Pit Bull Bites Rochester Toddler
Posted on September 30, 2008A pit bull attacked and bit a 4-year-old Rochester boy who was riding his bike in the neighborhood, according to this news report (). The child, whose name was not released, was reportedly bitten on the forehead. The boy was riding his bike with his uncle and when the two stopped at a house to speak with another man, the pit bull attacked the boy...
Minivan Rollover on Interstate 380 Kills Three
Posted on September 26, 2008A Dodge Caravan rollover crash on the Interstate 380 killed three people and injured 10, according to a Times-Tribune news report. Killed in this horrific crash were Randolf Simmons, 24, Trisha Johnson and 2-year-old Dyshanque Boyd ? all of New York City...
Queens Pedestrian Accident Injures Two Junior High Students
Posted on September 23, 2008Two girls, who were walking to school in Ozone Park, were injured after they were both struck by a hit-and-run driver, according to an ABC News report. The two victims, both seventh grade students, were hit as they were crossing Rockaway Boulevard near 98th Street...
Parents File Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Son?s Auto Accident
Posted on September 18, 2008The parents of a 21-year-old man, who was killed two years ago when his Jeep fell off a 90-foot cliff at a Rockaway Township quarry, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the operator of the quarry and a restaurant where the man drank before the fatal accident occurred...
Woman Killed In Chain Reaction Collision on the Long Island Expressway
Posted on September 16, 2008A female driver died in a chain reaction crash involving several vehicles on the Long Island Expressway, Newsday reports. The automobile crash was reportedly triggered by a driver who swerved as he changed lanes. Police said George Spinelli, who was driving a Ford van west on the expressway near exit 49, moved from the right to the center lane and then moved back to the right as another vehicle moved to the center lane...
$1 Million Settlement To Worker Injured In Staten Island Ferry Crash
Posted on September 15, 2008A construction worker, who was severely injured in the Staten Island ferry accident on Oct. 15 2003, has agreed to a $1 million settlement with the city, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, 68-year-old Lloyd Joseph had to stay five weeks in the hospital to recover from severe injuries he suffered when the Andrew J...
Three Contractors Fined In Fatal New York Crane Accident
Posted on September 13, 2008Federal officials have slapped three contractors with fines totaling $313,000 for safety violations which they say led to the March 15 crane collapse on E. 51st Street that killed seven people. According to an article in the New York Daily News, officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) determined that a web sling used to haul parts of a large-sized crane ripped open causing the fatal construction accident...
Salmonella Outbreak Appears Over; Questions Remain
Posted on September 10, 2008?The outbreak appears to be over,? a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released August 28th stated. ?However, C.D.C. and state health departments are continuing to conduct surveillance for cases of infection with the outbreak strain.? The New York Times reports the illness has apparently dissipated but questions still remain regarding the pathogen?s origins...
New York Motorcycle Accident Deaths Rise Again
Posted on September 09, 2008The New York Times reported that the number of motorcyclist accident deaths jumped in 2007, with the region accounting for nearly one in eight motor vehicle deaths, government safety officials said on Thursday. Deaths of people in cars and trucks, on bicycles or on foot dropped by nearly 2,000 last year, pushing the overall death rate to a historic low...
West Side Construction Accident Kills NY Worker
Posted on September 05, 2008The New York Times reported Anthony Esposito, a construction worker, fell to his death 48 stories in New York City on September 4th. The NY construction accident took place at a work site at West 41st Street and 11th Avenue on the Far West Side of Manhattan where developer Larry A...
Construction Accident Involving Bucket Injures Workers, Bystanders
Posted on August 30, 2008According to a NY Times report, people received minor injuries after a bucket that was being lifted by a crane fell, breaking glass windows as it toppled along side of the building. The injured were treated for cuts and abrasions from the debris at a nearby hospital...
Staten Island Dog Attack Leaves Man Injured
Posted on August 25, 2008A story in the NY Times details the story of 2 pit-bulls that attacked a 90 year old man at his home. The man sustained severe bite wounds to his arms and legs and was taken to the emergency room where the police said he was in critical condition. Authorities are uncertain as to how the attack occurred...
NY Subway Commuters Evacuated After Being Subjected To Fumes, Smoke
Posted on August 20, 2008Riders at a subway station were evacuated after being exposed to fumes and smoke from an escalator during the morning hours of their commute according to a New York Times article. Authorities investigating the event indicated that the cause appeared to be a burning motor from the escalator at the subway station...
New York Dump Truck Accident Injures Driver
Posted on August 15, 2008According to a NY Times report, a dump truck hit a pedestrian footbridge injuring the driver. The incident occurred after the driver triggered the truck?s hydraulic switch that raises the back of the truck. The bridge, which is maintained by state authorities, collapsed after the NY Dump Truck Accident...
Chain Reaction Auto Accident Injures Two
Posted on July 20, 2008A Tappan Zee Bridge tractor trailer accident involving a passenger vehicle and a loaded propane tanker sent two drivers to the hospital, according to this news article. Fortunately, there was no fire or leaks from the propane tank, which could have had led to catastrophic injuries...
Staten Island Auto Accident Kills Teen
Posted on July 16, 2008Steven Economos, 18, of Staten Island died after losing control of his car and crashing into a utility pole on Amboy Road near Buffalo Street in Bay Terrace, according to this news report. The teenager was driving with three teenage passengers in his mother?s blue 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt when the accident occurred...
Pennsylvania Auto Accident Critically Injures New York Pastor
Posted on July 11, 2008New York pastor and gospel singer Timothy Wright suffered critical injuries in a Central Pennsylvania auto accident, which also killed his wife, 58-year-old Betty Wright, the Associated Press reports. Wright?s 14-year-old grandson, D. J. Wright, was also injured in the accident, which was apparently caused by a wrong-way driver who hit their vehicle...
Harlem Fire Accident Kills 2, Injures Several Others
Posted on July 08, 2008New York Fire Department investigators have said candles are to blame for a fatal Harlem fire that led a man and a boy to jump off the burning building to their deaths to escape getting burned. According to an NBC news report, the fire broke out in a six-story building at West 148th Street and Broadway...
Head-on Dirt Bike Collision Kills 12-Year Old, Injures 16-Year-Old
Posted on July 05, 2008A 12-year-old is dead after a head-on dirt bike collision in New York. Kody Beasock was killed after his brother, 16-year-old Christopher, struck him head-on, throwing him from his bike. The crash occurred on a rural road; Kody died and Christopher is now in critical condition...
All New York Crane Construction Halted
Posted on July 02, 2008We reported on May 30?s fatal crane accident. Now we can confirm that New York has suspended all crane construction until June 2 and will be hiring over 20 new engineers to monitor construction sites as part of a new $93 million initiative to increase construction safety...
Couple Shares The Wreck That Ruined Their Lives on Oprah
Posted on June 29, 2008For many, July 2, 2005 was just another summer day. For one couple, it was the day a fatal DUI crash in New York killed their niece and other members of their family on their sister?s wedding day. The crash, which took place on the Long Island Sound, involved 24-year-old Martin Heidgen, who had over 14 drinks before striking a limo headed away from a wedding head-on...
Iron Worker Critically Injured After Falling 25 Feet in Construction Accident
Posted on June 26, 2008Two more construction workers died at work this last week. This coming after the New York Times reported that thousands of construction workers gathered on April 29th to mourn the loss of 13 people who have been killed in New York construction accidents just this year...
New Building Inspectors Follow Increased Construction Deaths and Accidents
Posted on June 23, 2008Last month Mayor Bloomberg and his administration announced that the city will hire sixty-three more safety inspectors in light of the alarming number of construction deaths and accidents in New York City. The fatal accidents and inspection flaws also led to the resignation of Patricia Lancaster, the first female New York Buildings? Department Commissioner...
Sixteen Year-Old Driver Flees Scene of Hit and Run
Posted on June 20, 2008According to a story in the New York Times, on June 21st a sixteen year-old driver fled the scene of a hit and run accident that injured four people, including two toddlers. Witnesses to the accident said that the car struck two children in Manhattan, who were playing on a sidewalk...
8 Pedestrians Injured by Hit and Run Driver in Garment District
Posted on June 17, 2008According to a New York Times article, around 5PM on June 20th, eight pedestrians were hit and injured by a hit and run driver in Manhattan in the Midtown garment district. The accident occurred when a vehicle, a dark blue Ford Explorer, jumped the curb-plowing into the group of pedestrians...
Mayor Bloomberg and The City Council Present New Safety Plan for Construction Sites After Unprecedented Construction Worker Deaths
Posted on June 14, 2008The New York Times reports, that in early June, after an unprecedented number of fatal construction worker accidents, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council have unveiled a 13 point legislative package that is intended to increase oversight of building sites and increase fines for violation, while requiring registration of all key contractors...
Nursing Homes Structure Ownership in Ways to Avoid Liability for Negligence, Abuse, and Death of Patients
Posted on June 11, 2008Late last year private equity firms came under the scrutiny of the United States Senate, according to a story in The New York Times. It seems that private equity firms have been snatching up nursing homes all over the country-structuring complex levels of ownership in an attempt to avoid liability from lawsuits handled by New York personal injury lawyers...
Washington DC - Senate Votes to Protect Consumers With Stronger Product Safety Laws
Posted on June 08, 2008In March of this year, according to a story in the New York Times, the Senate, responding to an ever-increasing number of injuries from defective toys and other consumer products, approved a measure to overhaul the country?s product liability laws and to fortify the safety agency that is charged with oversight of the consumer marketplace...
Federal Report Finds Nursing Home Abuse Still Prevalent
Posted on June 05, 2008According to a recent study by Federal Health officials, only minimal penalties are assessed to organizations that have been repeatedly cited for nursing home abuse of their patients. Congress has established strict standards for nursing homes as far back as 1987, and both Presidents Clinton and Bush, along with the nursing home industry have announced many initiatives to improve nursing home care...
Crane Collapse on 91st Street and 1st Ave Kills At Least Two People
Posted on May 30, 2008A crane that was working on a high rise under construction at 333 E. 91st St., collapsed this morning, killing at least 2 people, one of them a construction worker. The collapse of this enormous crane came only 2 ½ months after another crane collapse accident that killed seven people about two miles south of this location...
Construction Worker Dies After Nylon Safety Strap Fails
Posted on May 27, 2008According to the New York Times, Kevin Kelly, 25, of Bayside, Queens, died after falling several stories when a safety strap intended to connect him to the building on which he was working failed. Kelly was installing windows at a condominium tower that was under construction when he fell from the 23rd floor to a 14th floor balcony at about 10:30 A...
Foam Manufacturers Pay $30 Million To Settle Product Liability Lawsuits
Posted on May 25, 2008Several foam manufactures have agreed to settle for $30 million with families of victims of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured 200, an article in Newsday reported. Egg-crate-style foam on the walls and ceiling of the club has been blamed for fueling the fire, which was sparked by a fireworks display for a rock band at the club...
9-year-old Brooklyn Boy Suffers Severe Brain Injuries In Hit-and-Run Accident
Posted on May 20, 2008A 9-year-old Brooklyn boy suffered critical injuries after he was struck by a teenage hit-and-run driver, who reportedly turned himself in to authorities later, according to a news report in The New York Times. Akeem Suluki suffered brain injuries and lung injuries and was transported to Kings County Hospital Center, the Times reported...
Auto Accident on State Supreme Court Steps Injures Six
Posted on May 17, 2008Six people were injured, including the driver of a Nissan Altima that jumped a curb-hitting a fire hydrant and a coffee cart- then pinning a man against a railing on the steps of the New York State Supreme Court-popularly known as the courthouse in the opening scenes of Law & Order...
Actor Who Suffered Severe Fall Injuries On Stage Wants To Sue Production Company
Posted on May 15, 2008A Broadway actor, who suffered severe injuries after he fell onstage during a production of ?The Little Mermaid,? has asked for a court order to preserve a stage prop in connection with a lawsuit he is planning to file. According to an Associated Press news report , 51-year-old Adrian Bailey filed the petition in Manhattan?s state Supreme Court to preserve the stage prop, a boat, so attorneys and consultants may examine it...
Harlem Auto Accident Kills 1 and Injures 7
Posted on May 10, 2008One person died and seven people suffered injuries after an out-of-control Chevy Astro van jumped a curb and rammed into people on a sidewalk in Harlem. The van?s driver, who has not been identified, died in this auto accident, six people suffered serious injuries and one 3-year-old who was pinned under the vehicle suffered critical injuries, according to a news report on WCBS-TV...
Task Force Makes Recommendations To Curb Teenage Driving Accidents
Posted on May 07, 2008A story in The New York Times illustrates that no one is sheltered from the tragedies and near tragedies of life. New Jersey?s Governor, Jon S. Corzine, shared with his safety task force, and at a news conference, how his family has been personally touched by teenage New York traffic accidents, indicating that all three of his children, at one point or another, had been a traffic statistic - one having been seriously injured...
Three Dead In New York Tractor Trailer Accident
Posted on May 05, 2008Three people died in a Long Island tractor trailer accident after their Ford Escort rammed into the back of a big rig parked on a residential street, The New York Times reports. According to the news report, the truck driver was asleep inside the stationary vehicle when the 1995 Ford Escort hit the tractor trailer and ended up almost entirely underneath the truck...
Near Railroad Accident Occurs When Train Doors Malfunction
Posted on May 01, 2008After yet another malfunction on the New Jersey Transit system where a door opened while the train was moving and passengers were inches away from falling to the tracks below, a rail industry consultant wondered out loud whether New Jersey Transit might be cutting corners on safety and maintenance in its attempt to keep up with record demand...
Woman Dies in Collision with Fire Truck
Posted on April 25, 2008In a tragic example of the dangers of our city?s highways, a 27-year old Queens woman was killed in a NY Auto Accident on Saturday, April 19th when the car she was driving and a fire engine collided at an intersection in South Jamaica, according to an article published in the New York Times...
NY City Building Chief Resigns Following Rash of Construction Accidents
Posted on April 22, 2008In a natural escalation of the recent spike in fatal NY construction accidents and administrative miscues, Patricia J. Lancaster, New York City?s first female building commissioner, resigned on Tuesday, April 22nd. She becomes the first commissioner to leave the Bloomberg administration under a cloud of public controversy...
2 FIREFIGHTERS KILLED AND MORE HURT IN SEPARATE CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS AT THE DEUTSCH BANK BUILDING
Posted on April 18, 2008It has been one thing after another since the Deutsch Bank Building was severely damaged and contaminated after the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. The New York Times reports that the troubled building has passed through a few owners and, most recently, last August 18th two firefighters were killed and two others hurt while fighting a blaze in the building...
Two Killed in Crane Accident ? This Time in Miami
Posted on April 14, 2008Proof positive that the dangerous nature of crane accidents are not reserved for New York alone, a seven-ton section of crane fell 30 stories in Miami recently, killing two workers and injuring 5 others. Fire and rescue officials said the collapse occurred about 1:45pm as a construction crew tried to lengthen the crane for work on a 46-story luxury high-rise overlooking Biscayne Bay...
ESCALATOR INJURIES FOR OLDER ADULTS ON THE RISE
Posted on April 11, 2008The New York Times cites a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that while older women suffer more injuries on escalators than older men, it seems that 85% of all escalator injuries result from a NY slip or a fall...
EARLY TEENS - A DEADLY TIME FOR CAR CRASH FATALITIES
Posted on April 09, 2008According to a study performed by The Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia, and reported in the New York Times, car-related fatalities among youth go up at age 12 and continue to increase for several years. The researchers, led by Dr. Flaura Koplin Winston, based the data after a review of more than 45,000 crashes over a 6-year period in all 50 states...
7 DIE IN CRANE ACCIDENT AFTER FALSE REPORT FILED
Posted on April 04, 2008According to the New York Times, building officials believe it was highly unlikely that a missed inspection resulted in the deaths of 7 people on March 15th, however, Edward J. Marquette, 46, was arrested anyway after he faked a report indicating that he inspected a construction crane on the East Side of Manhattan on March 4th, just 11 days before the crane collapsed killing 7 people...
CONSTRUCTION WORKER DIES AFTER BEING ELECTROCUTED AT CON EDISON SITE
Posted on March 30, 2008An investigation is ongoing after forty-four year-old John Rodriguez, a contract worker, died last month after being electrocuted while installing electrical cables at a Consolidated Edison power station in Queens. Rodriquez suffered a heart attack after the New York Construction Accident when he touched a highly charged cable, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, where he was pronounced dead...
TRAIN UNCOUPLES - STUNNING RIDERS
Posted on March 26, 2008According to the New York Times, an eight-car East-bound train uncoupled, stunning riders, during evening rush hour earlier this month. The incident, confirmed by Dan Stessel, a spokesman for the New Jersey Transit was confirmed as having happened on February 22nd, and has drawn criticism from the conductor?s union...
WINDOW WASHER SURVIVES 47 FOOT FALL FROM SCAFFOLDING
Posted on March 23, 2008Dr. Philip Barie, the chief of the division of critical care at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan was quoted in the New York Times as saying, ?If you believe in miracles, this is one.?. Dr. Barie went on to explain, ?We?re talking about tiny, tiny percentages, well under 1 percent, of people who fall that distance and survive...
HIT AND RUN DRIVER KILLS ONE-CAUGHT BY NEW YORK HEROS
Posted on March 20, 2008In a story reported in the New York Times, Nuevo Estilo, a barber, was an unlikely hero last December when he chased down a hit and run driver of a minivan, who plowed down a man and kept going. Witnesses said the victim, 73 year-old Francisco Guerrero, was carrying several bags of groceries and was walking home when they saw the minivan hit him...
Seven Dead After Devastating Crane Collapse in Manhattan
Posted on March 17, 2008At least seven people were killed when a large crane collapsed Saturday afternoon at a construction site on Manhattan's East Side. The crane toppled across the street and damaged three buildings, destroying a fourth. Twenty-four were reportedly injured following the devastating NY crane accident which occurred at 303 East 51st Street, near Second Avenue, at about 2 p...
Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro Retained in Construction Worker Death Case
Posted on March 14, 2008The law offices of Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro have been retained by the family of Luoro Ortega, a construction worker who was crushed to death on Wednesday, March 12th at a Brooklyn work site. According to an article in the Daily News, Mr. Ortega, 30, of Queens was literally buried alive in the NY construction accident when an excavation caused a wall to collapse on him...
NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AGREE TO PAY $20 MILLION DOLLARS TO SETTLE DISCRIMINATION SUIT
Posted on March 10, 2008According to the New York Times, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday in China Town that he believed it would be better for the City to settle than to litigate a 2001 New York race discrimination lawsuit filed against the city?s Department of Parks and Recreation...
TRUMP SOHO SO CURSED-?JUST ONE DISASTER AFTER ANOTHER?
Posted on March 07, 2008The Buildings Department issued a stop-work order against contractor Bovis Lend Lease and cited the company for not securing a chain used to hoist windows. Apparently, according to the Daily News, gusts of wind up to 50 MPH were responsible for causing loose chains to crash into the side of the Trump SoHo tower-showering glass to the streets below and cracking windows, neighborhood residents remarked...
JAIL GUARD PROMOTES VIOLENCE
Posted on March 04, 2008According to a story published Wednesday in the New York Times, Lloyd Nicholson, a 35 year-old guard at Riker?s Island, was arrested and has been charged with gang assault, assault, and official misconduct by the Bronx district attorney?s office. This transpired after it is alleged that guard Nicholson encouraged one group of inmates to assault another group for his purpose of maintaining order and enforcing prison discipline...
INJURIES AND DEATH INVADE NEW YORK
Posted on March 01, 2008When it comes to New York Auto Accidents, March is coming in like a lion! A Queen?s driver died after his car hit a guardrail on the Long Island expressway-plunging off the exit ramp and landing below in a Flushing Meadows Park where the car burst into flames...
TWO DIE AFTER BEING HIT BY TRAIN, WHILE A THIRD VICTIM WAS SERIOULSY INJURED
Posted on February 28, 2008The New York Times reported that on February 20th three men were involved in train accidents, with two of those men dying, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority. No names of the victims have been released but foul play is not suspected at this time...
CRANE ACCIDENT AT GOLDMAN SAKS CONSTRUCTION SITE
Posted on February 21, 2008In a story reported by the New York Times, Architect, Robert Woo was seriously injured last December in a New York construction accident at the Goldman Sachs office tower, when a nylon sling failed causing seven tons of metal studs to fall crushing a construction trailer...
NEW YORK CITY SEEKS TOUGHER CONSTRUCTION RULES
Posted on February 19, 2008According to a press release yesterday by the New York City Department of Buildings, Buildings Commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster announced the launch of Phase II of the Department's Special Enforcement Plan to raise the bar for construction standards citywide to improve compliance with safety regulations and to avoid New York construction accident deaths...
SETTLEMENT REACHED IN STATEN ISLAND FERRY CRASH
Posted on February 16, 2008In a classic example of the duty that municipal entities have to provide a safe environment for the public at large, a New York Times article reports that New York City has agreed to pay Mr. Shriram Agni a 6.5 million dollar settlement for injuries he suffered in Staten Island...
LACK OF BARRIERS LEADS TO FATAL DRIVE OFF ICY GARAGE DECK
Posted on February 14, 2008In an example of a tragic motor vehicle accident, the New York Times reported that on February 14, 2008, after driving through a chain link fence's open gates, an SUV, filled with wallpaper and scaffolding, slid across about 150 feet of ice into a metal cable stretched across the edge of the garage, before it crashed 40 ft...
TRUCK DRIVER KILLS TWO IN MANHATTAN
Posted on February 09, 2008In a frightening example of employee negligence that resulted in the wrongful death of two innocent people, a truck driver who is reported to have voluntarily quit taking his seizure medication lost consciousness and control of his garbage truck, killing two tourists from England when his truck jumped a curb, according to the New York Times...
CONSTRUCTION WORKER DIES IN BROOKLYN WHEN SCAFFOLD COLLAPSES
Posted on February 04, 2008In Clinton Hill, a 42 year-old man, Jose Palacios, from Queens, trained as an accountant but working in construction for higher pay, died last month when he fell 12 stories after the scaffolding on which he was standing collapsed, according to the New York Times...
LONG ISLAND?S MERCY HOSPITAL UNDER SCRUTINY AGAIN AFTER THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL PATIENTS
Posted on February 01, 2008According to the New York Times, The New York State Department of Health is again investigating Mercy Medical Center. Investigations of Mercy began last year when a woman had a double mastectomy immediately after receiving the news that she had breast cancer...
STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT FAILS TO WARN PATIENTS OF SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARDS
Posted on January 31, 2008STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT FAILS TO WARN PATIENTS FOR OVER THREE YEARS OF POSSIBLE SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARDS AFTER PATIENTS ARE INJECTED WITH SOLUTION FROM CONTAMINATED VIALS According to the New York Times, the New York state Health Department took 34 months to inform 628 patients that they should be tested for 2 types of hepatitis and HIV that may have infected their bodies when Dr...
City Bus Collides With Van Filled With Children
Posted on January 31, 2008A 9 year old girl was critically injured and six others were sent to the hospital after a private van that authorities said was illegally carrying a group of young children to school collided with a city bus in Queens, according to a New York Times report...
Eight Injured When Fire Truck Responding To An Emergency, Crashes
Posted on January 29, 2008Eight people were injured in a crash in Laurelton when a fire engine that was responding to an emergency was involved in an automobile accident with a United States Postal Service tractor-trailer and a taxicab, according to a New York Times report published January 18th...
BRAIN INJURIES STEAL LIVES IN SO MANY WAYS
Posted on January 28, 2008Justin Strzelczyk, 6 feet 6 inches and 300 pounds, was a monstrous presence on the Pittsburgh Steelers? offensive line from 1990-98. He was known for his friendly, banjo-playing spirit and gluttony for combat. But, according to the New York Times, on a September morning in 2004, Justin Strzelczyk was apparently experiencing a breakdown, when, during a 40-mile high-speed police chase in central New York, his pickup truck collided with a tractor-trailer and exploded, killing him instantly...
3 Dead In New Jersey Auto Accident
Posted on January 26, 2008The Police suspect drag racing may have played a role in the deaths of three people and the serious injury of a fourth who were involved in a two-vehicle collision on Sunday afternoon on a New Jersey road. According to the New York Times article, the road had a reputation as a place for drag racing...
SCAFFOLD COLLAPSES, KILLING ONE BROTHER, AND LEAVING A SECOND BROTHER STRUGGLING FOR HIS LIFE
Posted on January 23, 2008According to the New York Times, two brothers, Edgar and Alcides Moreno fell from the 47th floor of Solow Tower, a Manhattan building, after their scaffold collapsed beneath them. The two brothers, Edgar and Alcides Moreno, who worked as window washers together, fell from a swing scaffold, a built-in feature of the Solow Tower that is intended to let workers move the platform so window washers can reach any point on the facade...
Construction Worker Dies in 42-Story Fall in SoHo
Posted on January 23, 2008According to a New York Times Report, a construction worker who was pouring concrete at a condominium hotel in SoHo fell 42 floors to his death on Monday, January 14th. A second man was also thrown from the 42nd floor, but he was caught in a safety net that extends outward from the 40th floor...
13 Year Old Boy Killed At Father?s Workplace
Posted on January 20, 2008In a tragic example of what will surely become a hotly contested New York Wrongful Death case; a young boy visiting his father?s workplace was killed in Queens when the small forklift style vehicle he was trying to drive flipped over and crushed him, according to a New York Times Article...
GOVERNOR SPITZER CALLS FOR NWE RECALLS
Posted on January 18, 2008GOVERNOR SPITZER CALLS FOR RENEWED VIGILANCE, AND A NEWLY ENGERGIZED PRODUCT RECALL, OF UNSAFE, LEAD-BASED TOYS THAT CONTINUE TO BE ON RETAILER?S SHELVES AND ARE STILL BEING SOLD TO CONSUMERS According to a press release issued by Governor Spitzer?s office yesterday, December 10, 2007, Governor Spitzer has called for a new state-wide recall of lead-based toys that remain on retailer?s shelves...
HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS KILL 270 PEOPLE A DAY
Posted on January 14, 2008According to a recent article, published in the New York Times, and in response to widely held public concerns about preventable and deadly hospital-acquired infections, The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, began publishing statistics on infections and deaths at its 11 hospitals on September 7th of this year...
Easy Bake Oven Recall
Posted on August 02, 2007As parents of aspiring young bakers may already know, Hasbro, Inc. is recalling its Easy-Bake Oven -- for the second time in six months -- because kids are getting their fingers caught in the door and suffering serious burns as a result. One five-year-old had to have her finger partially amputated because her burn was so serious...
Obesity and Work Related Accidents
Posted on June 19, 2007The New York Times ran an article today that explored an unusual theory: overweight and obese people are involved in more workplace accidents than other workers. Citing a study of the records of 7,600 aluminum company employees, it found that 85 percent of those who sustained an injury were overweight or obese...
Chrysler Minivan Airbag Recall
Posted on June 15, 2007In May, Chrysler recalled more than 270,000 minivans in more than 20 states -- including New York -- because they contain defective air bags that might not deploy in an accident. The article from CNN says that 2005 model-year Town and Country and Dodge Caravan minivans are being recalled in states that salt their roads often, because the salt may corrode the sensors that tell the airbags when to open...
Teen Drunk Driving
Posted on June 15, 2007National Public Radio did a timely story recently on efforts to educate teens on drinking and driving. It comes on the heels of a report showing that young women -- who were once statistically safer drivers than their male counterparts -- are increasingly engaging in risky driving behavior like drinking and driving...
FDA Product Liability
Posted on June 10, 2007An article in May 16's Food and Dining section of the New York Times brought up an issue that interests us greatly: the reliability of the FDA's regulations. As anyone who bought contaminated lettuce, spinach, peanut butter or pet food last year knows, the FDA is not as good at its job as we might like...
Canada Tanks Collapse
Posted on June 06, 2007An article from this week about construction accidents in Alberta, Canada, has me wondering whether Canada is as worker-friendly as many Americans think. According to an article by the Canadian Press, a storage tank collapsed at a farm tank site for Canadian Natural Resources Ltd...
Sports-Related Brain Injuries In the News Raising Awareness
Posted on June 03, 2007HBO ran an episode of ?Real Sports? recently about the tragic frequency of traumatic brain injuries among NFL athletes. This comes on the heels of a study on brain injuries among amateur boxers, and an announcement from State Sen. Kemp Hannon of Long Island that Albany is authorizing additional funds for the prevention and study of concussions acquired in youth sports...
Truck Sideswiping Incident is a Good Reminder of Driver Awareness
Posted on June 02, 2007This article about a truck accident that took place upstate, along the New York State Thruway, is a good illustration of why drivers need to be extremely aware of the large trucks around them. According to the Lower Hudson Online:Jackson Julien, the driver of a tractor-trailer, said he was in the northbound middle lane about a mile north of Exit 15A when the driver of a sport utility vehicle attempted to move left from the right lane...
Consumers? Safety and Rights
Posted on June 01, 2007You may not have noticed, but last week, we narrowly avoided a serious blow to consumers? safety and rights. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency that regulates product safety and enforces recalls of unsafe products, has been operating with an acting chairwoman for almost a year...
Young Girl Plans Trip to China for Stem Cell Therapy to treat Cerebral Palsy
Posted on May 31, 2007The British press is full of reports today about a young girl there who plans to travel to China for stem-cell treatment of her cerebral palsy. Shonia Tahiliani is eight, but she can?t walk or sit upright and can?t speak, even though she understands two languages...
Erb?s Palsy Website Penned by Concerned Mother Refreshing and Informative
Posted on May 30, 2007Here's a welcome break from the usual round of medical jargon about Erb's palsy: injurednewborn.com, a site set up by Francine Litz, the mother of a daughter with a birth injury to her brachial plexus. (In short, obstetric brachial plexus injuries leave children with one arm weakened or useless, often dangling limply with the hand turned backwards...
NJ Governor to be Featured in New Seat Belt PSA
Posted on May 29, 2007New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has become a believer! Or at least, he's pretending to be one. From an article published this week, we learned that Corzine plans to use his experience as a survivor of a serious auto accident, in which he did not wear a seat belt, to help show others why that's a really bad idea...
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