New York Personal Injury Attorneys BlogDerrick Walters died in a motorcycle accident as he was being pursued by two police officers last weekend in Brooklyn, NYC. (See previous blog). The police are investigating if the two Brooklyn cops violated NYPD policy on vehicle pursuits. In the mean time the two officers were stripped of their shields and guns. Read more in the New York Daily News
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Why personal injury prevention for children and teenagers can’t be a “one-size-fits-all?
The way pediatricians are working on preventing personal injury for children and teenagers is evolving. There was a time when doctors would be taught to provide the same advice for any family for each type of injury. For example in the field of teen driver crash injury prevention, each teen would be treated the same way.
In a recent blog post published by the Center for Injury and Prevention, Flaura Koplin Winston, a pediatrician, looks at the case of two teen drivers who got caught for speeding. The first teen was diagnosed with ADHD and speeding was just one of many other dangerous behaviors. He needed proper medication and behavioral therapy. The second teen was late for school and got a ticket speeding. All he needed was an alarm clock.
Read the complete post.
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9 of our Personal Injury Lawyers selected for the 2015 New York Super Lawyers list
We are proud to announce that for the tenth consecutive year our attorneys have been named to the New York Super Lawyers list. In 2015 nine of our lawyers were selected. These are: Ben B. Rubinowitz(Top 100), Anthony H. Gair, Howard Hershenhorn, Jeffrey B. Bloom, Richard M. Steigman, Jerome I. Katz, Stephen H. Mackauf and Christopher L. Sallay(Top 100). Peter J. Saghir was again selected to the Rising Stars list.
Our firm is located in Manhattan and handles all types of catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases from traffic accidents, construction accidents, medical malpractice to product liability in New York and New Jersey.
Since 1919, the firm has built is reputation as one of the top injury law firms in the United States by limiting its practice to a select group of serious and substantial tort cases so that extensive personal attention and meticulous trial preparation are afforded to each of our clients on all matters. The results speak for themselves as for the last 10 years our firm has obtained verdicts or settlements exceeding $1 million for more than 450 cases.
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To reduce elderly pedestrian fatalities, the NYPD launches a new flyer campaign in South Brooklyn, NYC
The NYPD has been handing out flyers to elderly pedestrians in Southern Brooklyn recently in an effort to reduce the high number of elderly pedestrian fatalities in the area. The flyer is providing tips on how to navigate the streets more safely. According to recent statistics more than half of the pedestrians killed in traffic accidents in South Brooklyn recently were elderly. Read more in DNA Info
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Does the recent jaywalking enforcement help reduce pedestrian accidents?
Since the de Blasio administration launched The Vision Zero program to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities in New York, jaywalking tickets have been increasing significantly. By the end of last year, according to NYPD statistics, jaywalking summonses had nearly quadrupled the average for the previous six year. In a long article, the Village Voice looks at the history of Jaywalking in the city since 1920 and question the manner it is being enforced by the NYPD these days. Read the complete article here
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Failure to diagnose herpes simplex in the eye area can be medical malpractice resulting in serious personal injury
Failure to diagnose or delay to treat herpes simplex in the eye area can result in serious personal injury such as episcleritis, keratopathy, iritis, blepharitis, conjunctivitis, uveitis, keratitis, retinitis, optic neuritis, glaucoma, proptosis, cicatricial lid retractions, and extraocular muscle palsies. In “case of the month: a lesion near the eye”, the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants looks at the case of a 19-year-old man who visited his healthcare provider with erythema and irritation of the skin adjacent to his right eye. The patient noted the irritation for the first time after a military exercise in a sandy environment. Read the case here
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The death of a 19 year old construction worker in Brooklyn, NYC, could have been prevented if the contractor and the city had been taking more seriously reports of structural problems on the construction site
One day before he died in a construction accident, 19 year old Fernando Vanegas told his mom that he was worried about the safety of the construction site after a retaining wall designed to hold back the soil around the base of a building where he was working had almost fallen. The wall fell the day after killing Fernando and badly injuring two other construction workers. The construction site locatedat 656 Myrtle Avenue, near Franklin Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn had been previously vacated because of structural problems but in recent months the contractor received a permit for remediation work and the site was reopened. Read more in the New York Times
656 Myrtle Ave before the collapse of the wall
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A new online portal is now available for people who suffer from a rare disease that doctors have failed to diagnose
Failure to diagnose a medical condition can be medical malpractice. However in some rare cases patients can suffer from unknown conditions that even the the most skilled doctors have failed to diagnose despite extensive clinical investigations. These patients now have a new possibility to submit their case to the some of the nation’s leading diagnostic teams. The Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) just launched an online application portal that will allow patients suffering from a rare undiagnosed disease to submit an application to get their case studied by a top national network of clinical sites. Read more here
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A bicyclist died and another one suffered serious personal injury after a boat trailer that was not properly secured slipped off of a truck in Staten Island, NYC
A 21 year old woman died and her 22 year old friend was seriously injured in a bicycle accident in New York City. The two women were riding their bicycles on Hylan Blvd. in Great Kills yesterday afternoon around 4:30 pm when they were struck by a boat trailer that had slipped off the truck that was towing it. The two women were transported to the hospital. One of them died, the other one is expected to survive. The driver stayed at the scene of the accident. Allegedly the trailer hinge had been modified. The driver hasn’t been charged. Read more in the New York Daily News
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Unfortunately not every patient has a doctor in his family who can protect them from hospital negligence
Hospital medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in this country, behind heart disease and cancer.
In a recent article in the New York Times, a retired transplant surgeon explains how an unresponsive medical staff left him no other choice but to break into into the crash cart, a box on wheels containing equipment hospitals use to resuscitate patients and pull out two liters of saline solution which he ran into his daughter’s IV Line to prevent her from dying.
Unfortunately most patients and their families don’t have the medical knowledge and the means to make things different if the staff is negligent or a medical error is being committed. Here are the reactions of some of the readers to this article.
