An insurance company has awarded the parents of a New York man who died in an accident involving a crane a tax-free sum of $1 million. The contractor, Yonkers Contracting, was fined $68,000 and cited for 10 violations because of the incident. The crane crushed the 30-year old worker when he was part of a
Two New York State Police officers were injured after they were involved in a two-vehicle accident during the early morning hours on Aug. 11, 2013. According to the report, the car accident occurred when a 22-year-old driver, who was operating a 2009 Honda, failed to stop at a stop sign before entering an intersection. The
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
A Brooklyn family is claiming Carlos Alcis, a 43-year-old father of eight, collapsed and died after NYPD officers wrongfully stormed their home in a morning raid. The NYPD says they did respond to the address on Rockaway Parkway in the Brownsville section, but they dispute the family claim. The incident took place after 5 a.m. Thursday
A Midwood ambulance was involved in an accident with a van at about 5:45 p.m. earlier today in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The accident resulted in the ambulance on its side with three people injured, all in serious but stable condition. One of the people that suffered an injury was already on board the ambulance at the
A study based on U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers showed that workplace injuries and illnesses vary widely by state. Injuries that could have resulted in workers’ compensation claims were lowest in New York and the District of Columbia, but highest in Maine, according to the Allsup Study of Workplace Injuries. New
Police are investigating the death of Kenneth Yard, a man who was struck and killed by an MTA bus in Queens late Sunday. The bus accident happened just before midnight on Rockaway Boulevard near 1st Street in Rosedale. Investigators say the bus was traveling northbound on Rockaway Boulevard when it struck 65-year-old man. The
A five-car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge has left one woman dead and several injured. A driver of a white SUV was going northbound in a southbound lane when he hit a Nissan head-on. The impact caused the Nissan to roll over several times, killing its passenger and injuring the driver. The other cars
We have filed a lawsuit against the City of New York and other parties in connection with the pedestrian killing of Lillian Cruz this past March. Lillian was crossing the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and Court Street in Brooklyn when she was struck by a dump truck. Moments before the accident, Lillian was walking on
A woman, six months pregnant, was killed after a tree struck her in a Queens park last night. Yingyi Li, 30, had been sitting on a bench in Kissena Park when the oak tree hit her. There have been a rash of injured and killed New Yorkers in recent years, all hit by falling trees and tree
