Premises Liability

New York readers may be interested to know that there’s something dangerous lurking in NFL locker rooms that is causing players harm. No, it’s not a slip and fall in a wet shower, but Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , commonly known as MRSA. It is a staph infection that is usually spread by physical contact or

New York residents may be interested in this story about a woman who went missing from a San Francisco hospital. Although her condition had been improving, she disappeared from her hospital room for mysterious reasons. After friends and family searched the city for weeks, the missing 57-year-old woman was eventually found deceased in a hospital

Pamela Johnson has hired New York City attorney Vivian Sobers to represent her legal interests in a lawsuit brought against the funeral home. Vivan Sobers is also representing Ms. Johnson’s daughter in the same action.  The funeral home sent an email claiming to have had sex with the corpse prior to burial.  The lawsuit claims

Jorge Crespo, a Bronx cyclist, was a victim of another case of police brutality when the officers effecting his arrest caused severe and permanent nerve damage with hand cuffs.  The amount of force used on Mr. Crespo was clearly extremely excessive and apparently totally unnecessary.  Mr. Crespo should file a lawsuit against the NYPD for

New York readers may remember a story about a woman falling to her death on a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas earlier this year. The family has brought a lawsuit against Six Flags due to the incident. However, the theme park recently denied any liability for her death. The victim’s family has sued

Fire department retrieved people stranded in a seven-story 2nd Avenue building after the stairwell collapsed this past weekend. A man was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical but stable condition.  Over 30 college-aged students had gathered on the roof of 159 2nd Avenue at E. 9 St. in the lower East Side on Saturday night

A swing at a newly renovated South Slope playground was removed earlier this week after at least two children fractured their ankles on the equipment.  The Parks Department took down a big green swing near the entrance to Slope Park on Sixth Avenue and 18th Street. “It’s a brand new playground and this shouldn’t happen,”

A building was evacuated in Harlem over stability concerns after a man fell through a set of stairs inside 29 E. 104th St. in East Harlem yesterday.  The building is six stories high, with six apartments on each floor.  The building’s owner was listed in Department of Buildings records as San Francisco Associates Limited. There are

An 8-year-old girl was seriously injured when her foot and leg got caught in an escalator at a New Jersey Macy’s yesterday. A bystander then pressed the emergency stop button to shut down the escalator, and rescue workers had to dismantle the landing area of the escalator to free her leg. Our attorneys at Morgan

35-year-old advertising executive, Jennifer Rosoff, fell after the railing on her 17th-floor balcony gave way.  The accident happened at an apartment building at 400 East 57th Street early Thursday. The Buildings Department is investigating what happened. The gray brick high-rise building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was built before World War II. Only the higher-floor