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Six New York Residents Injured in Auto Accident

Posted on July 17, 2009
Six 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, 2009
Three 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, 2009
As 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, 2009
Auto 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...

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Motorcycle Accident Kills New York Woman

Posted on July 10, 2009
A 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, 2009
Bridgestone/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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Six 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, 2009
Three 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, 2009
An 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, 2009
Two 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
One 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
New 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, 2009
Timothy 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, 2009
Romano 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, 2009
Two 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Vincent 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, 2009
Three 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, 2009
Team-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, 2009
Michael 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, 2009
Five 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, 2009
According 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, 2009
Weight 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, 2009
Natasha 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...

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