11 children and an adult, all involved in a school bus accident, were hospitalized yesterday. The school bus had struck a car at the intersection of 15th Avenue and 76th Street in Bensonhurst. Accidents involving school buses filled with children is a parent’s worst fear. The attorneys at Morgan Levine Dolan have represented many children
Emergency crews rushed to a construction site across from the Javits Center earlier this morning. It has been report a worker fell into a hole while working on the construction site. The man was deep in a tunnel under a site on the north side of Eleventh Avenue and West 34th Street when he tripped over
An elderly man lost control of his car and drove into a body shop, killing a worker and severely injuring others. The car accident happened at New Pamir Autobody earlier today. The police are investigating but no charges have been filed as of yet. This is just the latest accident where a driver loses control
Pedestrian accidents are particularly devastating because people often have nothing to protect them from the impact of a powerful motor vehicle. Pedestrians in New York City and beyond often suffer serious and sometimes fatal injuries when they are involved in a traffic accident. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 47,000
Duane Morgan of Morgan Levine recently forced an insurance company to settle a claim brought by a sandhog, a union worker who digs the tunnels under the City of New York. This particular sandhog was injured when he slipped and fell off of a truck while working on the connecting tube being constructed between
Although construction jobs are more risky than a lot of other jobs, construction workers in New York City and beyond often head to their jobs each day, like others, expecting that they will make it back home safely. They expect that measures have been taken to protect them from serious injuries. Sadly, construction accidents happen
A man was struck and killed by an MTA bus in Queens last Wednesday night. The accident happened at around 7:35 p.m. at Broadway and 79th Street in Elmhurst. The man was killed by a Q53 bus as he crossed within the marked pedestrian crosswalk directly in front of Elmhurst Hospital. Our law firm represents
Morgan Levine has recovered millions of dollars for workers injured on scaffolds. Just two months ago, another man was seriously injured after falling off scaffolding on Fifth Avenue. The victim suffered trauma to his head after falling off a scaffold at 475 Fifth Avenue, on an office building near 41st Street, just after 11 a.m. All of
12 people were injured when a car drove on to a sidewalk and into scaffolding in Brooklyn last Saturday night. The car accident happened at Utica Avenue and Church Avenue in East Flatbush. Several of the injured pedestrians were grandmothers, mothers and children. Due to a potential shortage of insurance to cover the losses in this accident,
Morgan Levine was retained earlier today to represent the family of Lillian Cruz, the beloved mother who was struck and killed last month at the intersection of Hamilton Street and Court Street in Brooklyn. She was struck by an 18 wheel tractor trailer who was cited by the police for driving with an obstructed and
