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New York Product Liability Lawyer Anthony Gair to speak at New York State Bar Association Seminar: LITIGATING THE PRODUCTS LIABILITY CASE: LAW AND PRACTICE NYC

Our Partner, Anthony Gair will be speaking at LITIGATING THE PRODUCTS LIABILITY CASE: LAW AND PRACTICE NYC seminar presented by the New York State Bar Association. The Chair of the Seminar is Dennis J. Brady, Esq. a Partner at the preeminent New York defense firm, Goldberg Segalla LLP. The Seminar…

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New York Personal Injury Lawyer Ben Rubinowitz to speak at New York City Bar Program, Anatomy of a Trial: Tips and Strategies to Win your Case

Our managing partner, Ben Rubinowitz will be a speaker at the New York City Bar Program“Anatomy of a Trial: Tips and Strategy to win your Case“ on Thursday November 14th from 6:00pm to 9:00 pm . The program is co-chaired by United States Magistrate Judge, SDNY Honorable, Sarah Netburn and…

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New York Personal Injury Attorney Ben Rubinowitz to chair the New York State Bar Association’s BASICS OF CIVIL TRIAL program

Gair Gair Steigman Mackauf Bloom and Rubinowitz is proud to announce that Partner Ben Rubinowitz is Chairing the New York State Bar Association’s BASICS OF CIVIL TRIAL program on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 New York City at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd St.), New York, NY 10001…

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New York Car Accident Prevention: Bloomberg and Department of Transporattion Commissioner Sadik-Khan anounce Citywide Expansion of Neighborhood Slow Zones to Combat Speeding on Residential Streets and Further Improve Record Traffic Safety

In New York City 81 people died in traffic accidents related to speed last year. Even though this number is one of the lowest ever recorded, speeding remains the greatest contributing factor in traffic fatalities in the city. In a continuous effort to make the city safer and reduce traffic…

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New York Traffic Accidents: NYPD opposes a bill requiring the department of information technology and telecommunications to create and maintain an interactive website detailing traffic crash data

A New York City public map of crash locations and traffic fatalities that would be updated monthly is a brilliant idea but the NYPD is reluctant to share this data with the public. At a City Council transportation committee hearing on Thursday, the NYPD testified in opposition to a bill…

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New York Wrongful Death: two pedestrians died this week in New York after being struck by a vehicle

Jose Torres, 57, died yesterday after being struck by a tow truck in a Crosswalk at East 181st Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx, New York. The police are still investigating the reason for the accident. Read more in the New York Daily News Earlier this week on Wednesday…

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Product Liability: Dietary Supplement OxyElite Pro pulled from shelves nationwide after a mother of seven died and two people required liver transplants in Hawaii

1 person died and 11 suffered serious personal injury and were hospitalized with two having to receive liver transplants following multiple non viral Acute Hepatitis cases in Hawaii. Out of a total of 29 cases, 24 were linked to a dietary supplement product labeled as OxyElite Pro. The CDC is…

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Product Liability: FDA warns of a dangerous rising trend of Hidden Drug Ingredients in dietary supplements

Hidden Drugs or Chemicals in dietary supplements or conventional food can cause severe personal injury and sometimes lead to death. According to the FDA, some products promoting sexual enhancement, weight loss, or bodybuilding and advertised as “all natural” may contain dangerous drugs or chemicals that have been previously removed from…

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Medical Malpractice – Failure to Diagnose a condition: Institute of Medicine (IOM) to undertake a report on Diagnostic Error as part of the “Quality Chasm” Series

Diagnostic errors are among the leading causes for Medical Malpractice Claims in the US. They cause personal injury to patients and waste resources. Recently the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) announced that the Institute Of Medicine (IOM) had accepted the SIDM’s proposal to undertake a report on diagnostic…

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