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 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 trying to cross the intersection of West End Ave and West 97th Street when they were struck by a taxi driver making a left turn. Cooper, a third grader at The Calhoun School died at the hospital. He loved the Knicks, the New York Yankees and classic rock ‘n’ roll.

Unfortunately, pedestrians being struck by vehicles making left turns are all to common in NYC.

Read more in the New York Times.

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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 to 156 in 2013, 152 in 2022 and 142 in 2011.

Read more in the Daily News

See our previous blog on alarming pedestrians deaths in NY

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Mother Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is one of the most powerful non profit organizations against drunk driving. MADD was created in 1980 by Candice Lightner after her 13 year old daughter was killed by a drunken hit and run driver. Since its inception the number of wrongful deaths related to drunk driving car accidents has been cut by half. The organization just released its Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving: 2014 Report to the Nation which describes MADD’s advocacy work since the Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving was launched in 2006. The report looks at the efforts that each State made to fight drunk driving and gave them a ranking of 0 to 5 stars based on the following measures and reforms:

  • Ignition Interlocks
  • Sobriety Checkpoints
  • Administrative License Revocation
  • Child Endangerments
  • No-Refusal Events

New York received a star for each of the 4 first points but the legislature still needs to pass the no-refusal legislation for the State to get its Five stars.

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A class I product recall has been issued by the FDA for the Puritan Bennett 840 Series Ventilator manufactured by Covidien. A software problem may cause the Ventilator to stop functioning, triggering the safety alarm and causing the patient to suddenly be required to breathe on his or her own. This medical device is usually used on critically ill patients who may not be able to breathe without the ventilator. Therefore if the ventilator inadvertently stops the patient may suffer serious personal injury or death.

Read the complete FDA safety Alert

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25 pedestrians died in car accidents in New York last November according to the recently released NYPD car accident statistics. This is the highest number of pedestrian fatalities per month in 2013. In comparison, the number of pedestrian deaths in November 2012 was 8. Among these 25 pedestrians struck by a car, 6 were in Manhattan, 8 in the Bronx, 3 in Brooklyn, 6 in Queens and 2 in Staten Island.

Car%20Accident%20NYC%20Number%20of%20pedestrian%20deaths%20per%20month.pngCar%20Accident%20NYC%20Number%20of%20deaths%20per%20months.png4692 people suffered personal injury in car accidents in NYC in November compared to 3977 in November 2012.

Car%20Accident%20NYC%20Number%20of%20personal%20injuries%20per%20month.pngDistracted drivers were responsible for 2560 car accidents in New York City in November 2013. Distracted Driving is the most common contributing factor to car accidents in New York.

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r_steigman_small.jpgOur partner, New York Personal Injury Lawyer Richard Steigman will be a speaker at “LIEN” ON US: GET THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE LAW ON LIENS, a CLE seminar organized by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association on February 6 & 13, 2014, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM at NYSTLA,

132 Nassau Street, 2nd Floor, New York City.

This seminar will focus on lien resolution.

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Stephen%20Mackauf.pngOur Partner New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Stephen Mackauf was quoted extensively in the January Issue of Physician Risk Management. In the article “Causation: A problem for all in missed cancer cases” Stephen Mackauf explains that missed cancer claims typically revolve around factors such as:
– issues of fact, such as a patient claiming she reported a lump and the doctor says she didn’t – whether a patient’s refusal of a test or treatment was documented – whether a patient is able to prove significant harm caused by the delay in diagnosis

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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 overloaded power strip ignited the fire that quickly spread to the Christmas tree. When the couple came back from shopping they opened the door to an apartment full of smoke. The door which was supposed to self close, stayed open and the fire caught up with the couple who were running down the stairs.

Read more in the New York Post

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A pedestrian suffered serious personal injury after being hit by a New York Fire Department Truck while crossing McDonald Ave near Church in Brooklyn New York. The truck was racing to a blaze when the accident happened. The pedestrian, a 30 year old man, was immediately given aid by the firefighters who dispatched another truck to the blaze.

Read more in the Daily News

 

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Howard%20Permut.jpgAfter 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 of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, with the transition.

Read the complete article in the New York Times

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