A Brooklyn worker died in a car wash accident on Sunday. The accident investigators are still looking for the causes of the accident. A SUV had just come out of the automated rails and the worker was taking car of the detailing when suddenly the car and another vehicle crashed…
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Product Liability: after one child died and another one suffered serious personal injury, Ikea recalls Children’s Wall-Mounted lamp due to strangulation hazard
A 16 month-old child wrongfully died and a 15 month-old child was severely injured after they became entangled in a very popular Ikea’s children’s wall-mounted lamp. There were 2.9 million lamps sold in the US, 1.1 million in Canada and 23 million worldwide. Consumers should stop using the defective lamp…
Product Liability: New Safety Standard for Infant Bedside Sleepers will prevent Wrongful Death and Personal Injury
To prevent wrongful death and personal injury caused by defective or unsafe bedside sleepers a new federal mandatory standard to improve the safety of bedside sleepers was just approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) A bedside sleeper is a bassinet that is attached to an adult bed for…
Car accident nyc: 32 year old mother of twin toddlers killed by drunk driver while crossing dangerous intersection in the Bronx
32 year old Nydja Herring died in a drunk driving car accident in NYC this weekend. The accident happened Saturday at 5.30 pm as the mother of the 2 year old twins had just stepped out to run errands for the toddlers at a store nearby. Nydja was crossing the…
New York Car Accident: 9 year old boy dies after being struck by taxi on Upper West Side
A 9 year old boy died in a car accident in NYC on Friday night. Copper Stock was walking with his father, the oncologist Richard Stock, on the Upper West Side in New York City on Friday night when the fatal accident occurred. The young boy and his dad were…
Car Accident NYC: Alarming number of pedestrian deaths for the first 12 days of 2014
7 pedestrians died in car accidents in NYC during the first 12 days of 2014. The Daily News projected that at this rate, the number of pedestrians who would die after being struck by a car in New York City would reach 200 by the end of the year compared…
Deadly Fire in New York High Rise: A door that did not self close as it should have allowed a fire to spread and catch up with tenants who were running away down the stairs
Last Sunday, 27 year old Daniel McClung died and his wife was seriously injured in a fire that started in their apartment on the 20th floor of a high rise building in New York. Their two dogs also died in the fire. According to the FDNY,an extension cord with an…
New York Train Accident: Metro North Chief steps down
After the recent New York train accident that led to the wrongful death of 4 passengers and injured more than 70, Metro North Chief, Howard Perrmut announced that he is stepping down. He will stay until the end of this month to help his successor, Joseph Giulietti, the executive director…
The “Reckless Driving Kills” campaign in New York shows images of grieving family members at the fatal crash sites of their loved ones
40% of the people who die in a car accident in New York, are the victims of reckless and dangerous drivers. Drivers who are speeding, not yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks or being distracted while driving have killed too many people on the streets of New York City. By showing…
Medical Malpractice: Teenage girl died after 13 doctors fail to diagnose a brain tumor
In a very sad medical malpractice case a 16 year old girl died of brain cancer after none of the 13 doctors who failed to diagnose the brain tumor ordered an MRI. Natasha Simmons had all the symptoms of a brain tumor: headaches, numbness, back pain, vomiting and problems with…