Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf is a New York Plaintiff's personal injury law firm specializing in automobile accidents, construction accidents, medical malpractice, products liability, police misconduct and all types of New York personal injury litigation.
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A wheelchair-bound resident of a Long Island nursing home suffered serious personal injury after a nurse committed a medical error and injected him with morphine instead of a prescribed muscle relaxant and then attempted to cover up her error by falsifying documents. The nursing home resident overdosed and had to be admitted to a hospital where Narcan, a medication to counter the effects of an opiate overdose was administered. The nurse, Vicki Price, was charged recently with one count of endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person, or an incompetent or physically disabled person, in the second degree, a class E felony; one count of endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, a class A misdemeanor; one count of willful violation of the public health laws, an unclassified misdemeanor; and two counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, a class E felony. She faces up to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison if convicted.

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11 people suffered non threatening personal injury after a car struck a school bus that was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Liberty Ave and 183rd Street in Jamaica, Queens, New York on Tuesday.

9 children and two adults were injured and transported to the hospital; two of them suffered serious personal injury.

This school bus accident is the second one since classes started again on September 4th. Last week nearly 30 children were injured when two school buses collided in the Bronx, NYC.

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An unlicensed driver suffered personal injury and his passenger died after he crashed the minivan he was driving into the back of a truck. The accident happened early Tuesday morning at Tiffany Street and Barry Avenue in Hunts Point in the Bronx, NYC. The driver was arrested and charged with driving without a license. According to CBS New York, the minivan involved in the crash was stolen and the driver was also charged with grand larceny of an auto and criminal possession of stolen property.

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OSHA recently updated its Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation by announcing a new rule that requires employers to report not only single fatalities but also single hospitalizations, amputations or loss of an eye. Previously, OSHA’s regulations required an employer to report only work-related fatalities and in-patient hospitalizations of three or more employees.

Additionally OSHA also updated the list of industries that are partially exempted from this rule due to relatively low occupational injury and illness rates.

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US%20ARMY%20MEDICAL.jpgSharon LaFraniere and Andrew W. Lerhen from the New York Times continue to investigate Medical Malpractice in military hospitals. The two reporters who last June provided an in-depth analysis of the flaws of the military hospital system (see “In Military Care, a Pattern of Errors but Not Scrutiny” ) recently published a new article focusing on the high risk of medical malpractice in small military hospitals. Military hospitals with a turnover of 10 to 30 patients a day are often staffed with inexperienced doctors and nurses who are not busy enough to keep their skills sharp. Most of them are poorly managed and run by untrained and inexperienced physicians with a culture of complacency that threatens patients safety.
Most of these small military hospitals are being considered for closing or transforming into outpatient facilities by the Pentagon as part of its plan to scale back costs but political obstacles are preventing streamlining the system.

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cement%20truck.pngA truck driver was injured in an accident during which the cement truck he was driving on the Long Island Expressway rolled over, spilling cement on the highway and blocking traffic for 3 hours. Read more in the NY Daily News.

Cement trucks are prone to rollover because not only are they designed with a high center of gravity but also because the liquid cement inside the tank is being constantly moved to avoid drying creating an uneven distribution of the weight that can cause the truck to easily overturn even at a low speed. Additionally the cement truck drivers are pressured to get to their destination as quickly as possible because the cement mix has to arrive wet at the construction site. Driving too fast or making sudden movements can result in a slosh effect that can lead a cement truck to rollover.

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A man died and two women and a child suffered personal injury in a car accident on the Van Wyck Expressway near JKF Airport. According to the New York Daily News, the victim had pulled his car to the shoulder of the highway to change a flat tire when he was hit by a minivan taxi registered with the Taxi and Limousine Commission Sunday around 4:00 am. A woman who was in the victim’s car and another woman and a child who were in the taxi suffered personal injury and were taken to the hospital.

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A pedestrian who was crossing Bedford Ave near Kozsciusco Street in Brooklyn, NYC, was struck by a SUV after 9 pm Saturday night. The pedestrian, a 40 year old man suffered severe personal injury and was rushed to the hospital. The SUV driver stayed at the scene and wasn’t charged.

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A SUV driver abandoned his car on the sidewalk after an accident during which he lost control of his vehicle, jumped the curb and pinned two pedestrians against the wall of a building in Starrett City, Brooklyn, NYC. One of the pedestrians, a 27 year old man was severely injured and had both legs amputated. The other pedestrian, a 32 year old woman suffered head trauma but she is in stable condition.
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A 31 year old pedestrian was struck by a car and died on the Hutchinson Parkway. The woman exited from a car that had stopped on the service road and tried to cross the busy highway. She was hit by a pick up truck and died at the scene of the accident. According the NY Daily News, the woman had been drinking and was arguing with her boyfriend who was driving the car.

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