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5 people were injured after a marked police car from the 113th precinct and a food delivery truck collided in a violent crash on a residential street in South Ozone Park. The accident made for some newspaper-like fodder with tabloids like the New York Post using the...
In New York City and throughout the entire United States we have laws in place to protect people from needless injury and hold negligent parties accountable for causing injuries. Unfortunately, we also have a pervasive belief by many that suing to recover financial...
Construction accidents are frequently covered by local media. Rarely, however, is there follow up coverage that illustrates the devastating impact that the accident has on the family members and loved ones of the victim. Earlier this week we wrote a piece on the death...
Pedestrians continue to face unprecedented dangers in New York. If you take anything away from the below, make it this: Be careful when walking our streets. The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles releases an annual summary of statistics involving motor...
When announcing the launch of the Vision Zero initiative, Mayor Bill de Blasio said "We will save lives. That work begins in earnest today." At Block O'Toole & Murphy, we have written frequently about fatal accidents and how they pertain to Vision Zero. This begs...
Most people realize that it is a good idea to speak to an attorney after a car accident or, at the very least, look into the possibility of collecting compensation for injuries, property and other damages. Far fewer people know what their rights are as a passenger,...
21 year-old Alex Santizo, a construction worker, fell to his death in a tragic Brooklyn construction accident. The accident occurred in the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park (pictured below). How did this fatal construction accident unfold? Santizo was...
It should come as no surprise that traumatic brain injuries are a common type of injury sustained by construction workers. After all, we have grown accustomed to hearing about workers who fall 25 or more feet or stories about someone getting hit by a steel beam as it...
