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Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro Retained in Construction Worker Death Case

Posted on March 14, 2008
The 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, 2008
According 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
According 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...

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INJURIES AND DEATH INVADE NEW YORK

Posted on March 01, 2008
When 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
According 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
According 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, 2008
STATE 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Eight 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, 2008
Justin 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
According 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, 2008
According 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, 2008
In 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, 2008
GOVERNOR 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, 2008
According 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, 2007
As 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, 2007
The 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, 2007
In 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, 2007
National 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, 2007
An 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, 2007
An 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, 2007
HBO 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...

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