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Sometimes, failure to properly train employees affects more than the employees involved. The general public can be hurt by such a failure, especially when the business is one that touches the lives of every New Yorker. A recent gas explosion in March is a case in...
The accident attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a serious bus accident that took place this week in bustling Times Square. Two tour buses collided in Manhattan's Times Square on Tuesday afternoon, causing injuries to passengers taking in the sights...
A new initiative is focused on making it easier and safer to get from Manhattan to the Bronx using one of the 11 bridges that cross the Harlem River. Walkers and bikers face many hurdles when trying cross the river from either side. Vehicles come off the bridges too...
The New York construction accident attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a developing story that occurred this morning in the Bronx near the Throgs Neck Bridge. A construction worker was fatally crushed by a crate on the Throgs Neck Expressway Road...
The injury attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy continue to follow Mayor DeBlasio's traffic safety initiative "Vision Zero." The DeBlasio plan outlines its ambitious goals to reduce traffic fatalities to zero within a 10 year time-period. Below is a recent...
There have been far too many fatal pedestrian accidents on the Upper West Side recently, two of which occurred early this year and caused outrage in the neighborhood. A 73-year-old man and a 9-year-old boy were killed in January, sparking neighborhood outrage and...
The experienced lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy have long recognized the perils associated with construction work. It is one of the many reasons why the attorneys at the firm fight with such fervor to preserve and strengthen worker safety laws in New York. This...
So far this year, there have been 71 work-related deaths among law enforcement officers in the United States. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), this represents a 25 percent increase from the same time last year. Of these...
