New York Injury Talk Blog: Personal Injury Law

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Personal Injury Law Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Personal Injury Law

New York Injury Talk Blog

Post Frequency: 0.8/day

Last Entry: May 25, 2010 at 09:00:00

Manhattan Auto Accidents Leave One Dead and Several Injured

Posted on April 29, 2009
Ysemny 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Queens On-the-Job Injury of Contractors on NYC Bridge

Posted on April 20, 2009
Two 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, 2009
Suffolk 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Anthony 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Dominick 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Authorities 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Richard 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, 2009
On 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
On 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
A 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...

Related Law Bulletins

Summary Judgement for Dismissal of Personal Injury Lawsuits Require Establishment that Defendant didn't Create the Dangerous Condition of have actual or Constructive Notice of its Existence.
After picking up lunch from the deli counter of a local ...

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Employees in Baltimore, Maryland File $64 Million Personal Injury Lawsuit Over Carbon Monoxide Leak
In Baltimore Circuit Court on Tuesday, 16 Ruth’s Chris Steak Hou...

Brain Injury Caused by Stanley Works Nail Gun Results in $3.4 Million Verdict
A 51 year old construction worker using a Stanley Works nail gun, ...

Bill Proposes to Allow Sex Abuse Victims to File Injury Lawsuits in Maryland
In Maryland, Baltimore County legislator Eric M. Bromwell has intr...

Injury Verdict Upheld in Chicago Police Department Auto Accident
A verdict awarded from a personal injury case in Chicago against t...