New York Personal Injury Attorneys Blog

Published on: October 6, 2014

With no traffic related death in their area since the begining of 2014, the 108th precinct police demonstrate that Vision Zero efforts can save lives

Since the beginning of the year, there has been no deaths related to traffic accidents in Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside in Queens, NYC, after the police in this area doubled down on their enforcement of traffic violations as part of the Vision Zero Initiative to reduce traffic fatalities. This is quite an achievement compared to previous traffic statistics in the precinct where at the end of September 2013 8 people including 5 pedestrians were killed in vehicle accidents.

The police have been especially targeting drivers speeding and texting while driving as these behaviors are the two main contributing factors of pedestrian deaths in New York. Speeding tickets were up 30% compared to 2013. Police also doubled the number drunk drivers arrests with 112 people arrested so far compared to a total of 52 in 2013.

70 year old Queens man is the first to experience a new medical implant that sends heart pressure readings by emails to doctors and allow them to closely monitor their patient for a potential heart failure

By GGCRBHS&M

Heart failure is one of the main causes of senior hospitalizations. Failure to diagnose and treat heart failure timely can be fatal. A revolutionary device, the CardioMEMS implant has the potential to save the lives of many and 70 year old Eugene Santore from Queens, NYC, is the first patient to receive it.

When the first signs of hearth failure appear, the device, which monitors the pressure in the patient’s heart and transmits readings by email to the patient’s doctors, can be a life saver. Heart failure is often diagnosed too late because the patient doesn’t notice it until he or she experiences difficulty breathing because the high pressure has reached the lungs. This is the reason why so many heart failures are fatal.

The Cardiomems device is also very useful for doctors to adjust medication dosage, in the case of Eugene Santore, doctors have already adjusted his dosage of diuretics to help his body flush out excess water. Read more in the NY Daily News

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Published on: October 6, 2014

Brooklyn pedestrian suffers severe head injuries in car accident

By GGCRBHS&M

A 52 year old man was in critical condition after he was struck by a car on Pitkin Ave near Berriman Street in Brooklyn, NYC on Saturday Afternoon. According to the police, the man was crossing against the light in the pedestrian crosswalk when he was struck by a 68 year old woman driving a Mecedes SUV.

After trying to rescue her dog that was struck by a car, a woman was struck by a second car in a street in Brooklyn; both drivers left the scene of the accident without stopping

By GGCRBHS&M

A woman who ran in the street in Brooklyn to try to save her dog that had been run over by a car was struck by another car. The dog died and the 31 year old woman is in critical condition. Both drivers fled and the police are still looking for them.

Kristin Rendina was walking her two dogs when one of them was hit by a car that didn’t stop on W. Second St. near Avenue Z in Gravesend. She ran from the sidewalk to kneel by the dog and was struck by a black Jeep Wrangler driving on Avenue Z whose driver fled the scene.

Pedestrian dies after being struck by a bus in the Bronx

By GGCRBHS&M

A pedestrian who was walking in the crosswalk died after he was hit by a New York City Bus making a left turn at the intersection of E. 147th street and Willis Ave. in Mott Haven in the Bronx, NYC. The man who was in his sixties and using a cane was hit by the bus and pinned under it. He was dragged beneath the bus until the Third Ave intersection. The street light near the Southwest corner where the man was hit was not working resulting in poor lighting of the area. This factor may explain why the bus driver never saw the victim. The bus driver stayed at the scene and was not charged.

Read more in the NY Daily News and see video below.

Published on: October 6, 2014

NYPD cop injured in another case of a pedestrian being struck by a bicyclist in New York City

By GGCRBHS&M

A few weeks after a woman died after being struck by a bike in Central Park, NYC, a NYPD officer was struck by a bicyclist yesterday on the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian footpath. The officer suffered personal injury and appeared to haver a broken arm. The accident happened yesterday afternoon on a crowded path. According to the New York police, the cyclist was not arrested.

Read more in the NY Daily News

Picture: courtesy of Wikipedia Every day more than 4000 pedestrians and 3100 cyclists cross the Brooklyn Bridge

Published on: October 2, 2014

10 of our Personal Injury Lawyers selected for the 2014 New York Super Lawyers list

By GGCRBHS&M

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We are proud to announce that for the ninth consecutive year our attorneys have been named to the New York Super Lawyers list. In 2014 ten of our lawyers were selected. These are: Ben B. Rubinowitz, Anthony H. Gair, Howard Hershenhorn, Jeffrey B. Bloom, Richard M. Steigman, Jerome I. Katz, Ernest R. Steigman, Stephen H. Mackauf, Seymour Boyers and Christopher L. Sallay. 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 425 cases.

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Published on: October 2, 2014

Top New York Personal Injury Law Firm Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom and Rubinowitz selected as one of the top 50 America’s Elite Trial Lawyers by the National Law Journal and Law.com

By GGCRBHS&M

Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf, a top New York Personal Injury law firm is proud to announce that it has been selected by the National Law Journal and Law.com this year to be part of the Top 50 list of America’s Elite Trial Lawyers.

The 50 personal injury firms selected for this list have been doing the most creative and substantial work on the plaintiff side.

To qualify for inclusion, firms had to have scored at least one significant plaintiffs win between Jan. 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014, and possess an impressive track record of wins within the past three to five years. A “significant win” meant prevailing in a bench or jury trial or in a major settlement where the stakes were high-for example, a substantial amount of money was at stake or the outcome could have affected litigation strategy or results in similar cases nationally. Also, firms had to devote at least 50 percent of their litigation resources to plaintiffs work and derive half or more of their revenue from plaintiffs-side activities. Firms with higher percentages of plaintiffs-side work were considered.

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Published on: October 2, 2014

New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat says ER conditions at NY-Presbyterian/Columbia are like a “third-world country level of healthcare

By GGCRBHS&M

After visiting a friend at the Emergency Room of the New York Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center Hospital in Washington Heights in Manhattan, Senator Adriano Espaillat University said he was outraged by the horrendous conditions patients and staff had to deal with. People are lying on stretchers in the hallways, there is no privacy, the staff is overwhelmed, patients are waiting 85 minutes to see a doctor on average and 717 minutes to get a room.

Senator Espaillat is planning to meet with hospital management this week to discuss the problems.

Man dies in Brooklyn fire accident

By GGCRBHS&M

A 61 year old man died early this morning after a fire engulfed his apartment on Herkimer St. in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY. The fireman tried to ressucitate the man after they pulled him out of the fire but he died at the hospital. The cause of the fire is being investigated by the fire marshals.