COVID-19 Notice: Block O’Toole & Murphy has returned to full, in-person operation in accordance with safety regulations put forward by New York State and CDC health officials. Our attorneys continue to provide quality legal representation and are available to discuss your case in person, over the phone, email, or video. Read more from our partners.
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...
A devastating accident occurred on the dreary morning of December 17, 2019, when 60-year-old Erica Tishman was tragically killed after she was struck by debris that fell from a building façade in Times Square. Department of Buildings (DOB) Engineers continue to...
On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, six people and three companies were charged for their role in the death of construction worker Luis Almonte Sanchez in a 2018 accident. All six defendants plead not guilty to their charges. In September 2018, Sanchez was...
On the morning of Tuesday, October 29, 2019, Frankie Torchia went to work and tragically never returned home. Torchia, a 33-year-old construction worker from Utica, and a coworker were in the process of setting a 30-foot piece of metal on the roof of a four-story...
On the morning of October 21, 2019, two construction workers were injured, one fatally, after a wall collapsed at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue on the Lower East Side. Officials from the Department of Buildings are investigating the incident. At around 10:00am,...
In September 2014, we commented on a tragic accident where two bicyclists were violently struck by a boat that had just unexpectedly detached from a pickup truck in Staten Island. One of the victims, Alexa Cioffi, was killed and the other, Briana Emanuele, was...
Human error led to a senseless human tragedy in the Bronx. Now, the New York City Housing Authority has a lot of explaining to do. An innocent man was killed in a deadly elevator accident at a Senior Housing facility in the Bronx late last year. Now, details are...
In the City that never sleeps, it seems that more and more frequently drivers are sleeping behind the wheel, causing fatal accidents. Earlier this week, New York City experienced another senseless loss when a garbage truck struck and killed 55-year-old Jodi McGrath as...
A 66 year old man died on Sunday afternoon in the Long Island community of Oyster Bay Cove after being struck with a snowplow. Was he acting recklessly, perhaps stepping in front of the snowplow while not paying attention? No.In fact, the man was standing near his...
A tragic New Year's Day fire in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant killed a man. The fire has been termed "unusual" by the FDNY.The fire at 440 Jefferson Avenue near Throop Avenue broke out around 2:30 PM on January 1. It started on the second-floor...
