Bronx Personal Injury Blog
Posted on May 17, 2013
A subway rider that was seriously injured by a mentally disturbed man who snatched power saws from a contractor's tool cart won a lawsuit against the company that left them unguarded. A Manhattan ...
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Posted on May 14, 2013
After contracting the deadly hantavirus while visiting Yosemite National Park, a California woman is now suing for $3 million. This woman was one of ten people who contracted this illness. Hantavirus ...
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Posted on May 10, 2013
A 58-year-old subway signalman and transit worker for the MTA was killed on the job on April 30, 2013. The man was walking back from an assignment he was given in a Queens tunnel. While en route to ...
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Posted on May 7, 2013
Can you guess what kind of medical error account for most malpractice payments: Perhaps surgical mistakes, overdoses or maybe obstetric errors? If you guessed any of the above, you would be wrong. The ...
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Posted on May 3, 2013
Last Tuesday, a judge ruled that the woman whose face was mauled by a dog in Central Park can sue the owner. The woman allegedly was attempting to help the dog when the dog attacked her. The incident ...
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Posted on Apr 30, 2013
A major research university recently released the contents of their study on mistakes during the diagnostic process. The study showed some of the most common errors that doctors in the United States ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2013
New studies by the auto industry's top technologists believe by the middle of this decade new cars could largely pilot themselves in stop-and-go traffic. By 2020, cars computers could do much of ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2013
Studies show that drivers of commercial trucks and motor vehicles who drink caffeine are less likely to cause a collision due to truck driver fatigue, a common problem on America's roads and ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2013
A casino bus overturned near Dallas last Thursday. The accident killed two and injured dozens more. The casino-bound bus was traveling on a highway when it rolled over around 9 in the morning. After ...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2013
In 2011, there were six New York City construction site deaths. In 2012, that number had tripled to 21. These statistics come from a recently-released federal report. The Occupational Safety and ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2013
A significant increase in accidents along Northern Boulevard in Queens has led to this major thoroughfare being coined a “Boulevard of Death.” City Councilman Daniel Dromm has pled with ...
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Posted on Apr 9, 2013
A new and disturbing study has determined that pedestrians (walkers) struck by cars are most often hit while in the crosswalk, with the signal on their side. Taxicabs pose a disproportionate threat to ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2013
In a tragic Nevada car accident last Saturday, five family members were killed after their van was hit by a drunk driver. Out of seven total occupants of the van, five were ejected and pronounced dead ...
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Posted on Apr 2, 2013
On March 20, 2103 a husband and wife were involved in a terrifying 2:30 a.m. wreck on an icy stretch of Brooklyn highway near the barely a scratch. A man was driving eastbound with his wife in the ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2013
A recently released study by the Department of Transportation reported that the number of people killed on New York City streets last year (2012) in accidents that involved a speeding motorist ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2013
In a tragic turn of events, a six-year-old boy was struck by a large commercial truck and killed in East Harlem. Unfortunately, this is not the first accident of its kind. According to the Tri-State ...
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Posted on Mar 22, 2013
A Brooklyn teenager and his family are filing a lawsuit against the Coney Island amusement park. They claim that while the teenager was on the Cyclone roller coaster, he chipped four of his teeth ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2013
Police officers investigating at the scene said twelve people were injured when a truck ran a red light, hit a passenger car and forced a city bus to swerve into a building Tuesday in Brooklyn. The ...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2013
The Department of Education has suspended more than 1,300 New York City yellow-bus drivers as well as 500 matrons. Why? According to the department, the suspensions were for misbehavior that had taken ...
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Posted on Mar 12, 2013
A lawsuit filed last year by the parents of a 14-year old girl after she went into cardiac arrest after drinking two cans of Monster, a high energy drink, has no weight because Monster Beverage ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2013
A new study recently issued cites New Jersey's most dangerous roadways. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign found that from 2009 to 2011, Route 130 in Burlington County, the Blackhorse Pike in ...
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Posted on Mar 5, 2013
A tractor trailer struck a 6-year-old Harlem boy while he was walking to school with his brother on Thursday, February 28, 2013. The impact was fatal. The crossing guard who was supposed to be ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2013
An elderly man had his foot sliced off this morning, February 27, 2013 after a driver backed into him and threw the senior citizen into a Queens store window, witnesses said. The driver was backing ...
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Posted on Feb 27, 2013
In a troubling and graphic news story, The New York Daily News published an article about a resident of a nursing home, an 89 year old woman who was abused by a caregiver at the home. The grand ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2013
A study, published on Thursday in the specialist journal, "Injury Prevention" has revealed that older riders involved in a crash are up to three times likelier than younger bikers to suffer ...
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