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The attorneys at the New York law firm Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a recent Brooklyn crash that left a 55 year-old man dead. The pedestrian was struck by an Access-a-Ride Bus in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. The accident, which occurred early...
Undocumented construction workers are at greater risk for injury and death because they are generally unwilling to risk deportation by reporting unsafe working conditions. This makes them vulnerable to exploitation by negligent employers who compromise workplace...
Cold weather is often accompanied by house and apartment fires. People use space heaters, old heating systems fail when first put to the test in the fall, and the homeless sometimes start fires accidentally in their efforts to get warm. All of these scenarios can...
Anyone who has tried to go to a performance at New York City’s Lincoln Center knows that it is often difficult to get there. Whether a person is walking, going by taxi, or emerging from the subway at 66th Street, it’s a real challenge to get to the destination on...
The man who owned the crane that was involved in a fatal 2008 accident on the Upper East Side admitted that he never looked at the wreckage after the accident because he is afraid of heights. Apparently he also does not know what the acronym OSHA (Occupational Safety...
On the one-year anniversary of the Metro-North train crash, has anything changed to convince passengers that they are safe when taking trains to New York City from upstate New York and Connecticut? On December 1, 2013, a train from Poughkeepsie bound for Grand...
Q. I filed a worker's compensation claim with my previous employer and am now applying for another job. Do I need to tell my new employer about the previous claims? A. No. And you don't need to tell them about your claim before they hire you, either. Q. I was injured...
A ceiling collapsed in a Staten Island car dealership last Friday, killing a construction worker. The man was working on demolishing the building’s interior partitions. The dealership’s workers were in an adjoining building when the ceiling collapsed. Three other...
It’s amazing no one was killed in an upstate New York bus accident near Syracuse last month. A Trailways motor coach bound for New York City hit a car abandoned in the middle of I-81 . The crash occurred in the early morning hours of November 6. Although 26 people...
