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At around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday, January 30, 2020, 41-year-old cyclist Pedro Lopez was struck and killed by a truck making an illegal U-turn in Brooklyn. This tragedy marks the first cyclist death to occur on New York City streets in 2020. Police investigation is...
At around 4:30 p.m. on January 28, 2020, two workers were installing a septic tank at a Long Island construction site when the walls of the 30-foot pit around them collapsed, trapping the men under piles of wet sand and dirt. First responders were able to recover the...
In a harrowing series of events, two construction workers in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn suffered severe burns on the morning of Tuesday, January 28, 2020. The workers were part of a contract crew that was upgrading the gas main in the area, according to a statement from...
Commuters traveling along the NJ Transit Port Jervis line experienced delays on Tuesday evening, January 21, 2020, due to a major accident that occurred along the tracks in Rockland County. A tractor trailer was stuck on train tracks along Route 17 at Washington...
59-year-old James Weiss, a former firefighter, sustained severe head trauma on the morning of Wednesday, January 15, 2020, when a piece of sheet metal fell on him while he was working at a construction site in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. He was taken to St. Joseph's...
In the early hours of Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, a woman was tragically killed in a Brooklyn hit-and-run accident. The unidentified woman was crossing the Bay Parkway near 86th St. in Bensonhurst when a private sanitation truck travelling eastbound on 86th St. suddenly...
Just five hours after an accident involving a sanitation truck that killed a 67-year-old woman in Brooklyn, another pedestrian was killed after she fell from a moving MTA bus and was run over by the rear wheels. Tragically, this incident marks at least eight...
Partner David Scher shared his labor law expertise when he taught a continuing legal education (CLE) course on January 7, 2020, focusing on strategies for pleading a construction accident case. His lecture was part of a larger seminar presented by the New York State...
On Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, at about 11:55 a.m., 68-year-old Judith Wieder was tragically killed by a cement mixing truck while crossing the street in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. This, unfortunately, was the second reported pedestrian death to occur on this...
Block O'Toole & Murphy is again proud to be ranked as one of America's "Best Law Firms" in 2020, compiled collaboratively by the U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®. The firm has been regionally recognized in New York City as a Tier 1 law firm in two...
