A Queens Village family who was celebrating an upcoming wedding was caught in a massive fire that quickly ravaged their house killing 3 of them and injuring many others. The house located on 211th Street and 93rd Road didn’t seem to have working smoke detectors. 32 year old Harleen Maggo…
Vision Zero Initiatives have helped decrease traffic accident deaths in New York City especially for pedestrians and bicyclists but the number of people injured in auto accidents during the first three months of the year has been on a rising trend. Distracted driving is the number one cause of accidents…
Many children were poisoned by lead in New York as the result of the city neglecting to inspect and fix lead paint hazards in apartments belonging to the New York City Housing Authority. Some children died and others now have to attend special-education programs and will never be able to…
A NYC hard had suffered critical injury after he fell from scaffolding at a church construction site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The man who was employed by 4M Construction was doing brick work on the Trinity Grace Church located at 231 Ainslie Street in Williamsburg. He was on scaffolding when he…
Two people suffered serious injury, 5 moderate injuries and dozens others minor injuries in a bus accident in Long Island, NY that occurred on Sunday night a little after 8:00 pm. The bus driven by Troy Gaston from Bethlehem, PA belonged to Journey Bus Line in New Jersey. The driver…
A young couple died and 5 other people suffered serious injury in a car accident involving 5 vehicles early Thursday morning in New York City. So far the investigators are still trying to figure out what exactly caused the five-car chain reaction crash. The accident occurred between 1:00 am and…
When an accuser or or an accused in a criminal investigation is a pre-teen or an adolescent, the unpreparedness of law agencies can lead to miscarriages of justice resulting in traumatic impacts. In a recent article in the New York Law Journal, LISA H. THURAU, an executive director of Strategies for…
A 6 year old boy was seriously injured by a falling New York Street sign yesterday afternoon. The young boy was a tourist visiting from Argentina. He was on the sidewalk at the southeast corner of 32nd Street and Seventh Ave when a heavy street sign detached from the pole…
The investigation is still ongoing in the NYC car accident during which Dorothy Burns drove into a group of pedestrians and killed two young children on March 5th. According to a new article in the NY Daily News, a medical crew was dispatched to Burns’ apartment on March 2nd after…
In their latest Trial Advocacy column in the New York Law Journal, NYC Personal Injury Attorneys Ben Rubinowitz and Evan Torgan write: Concurrent or overlapping surgeries are becoming more common in major teaching hospitals. Although studies have suggested that the practice can be performed without endangering patient safety, the attorney…