Posts tagged new york

• Boy crushed to death playing on a parking lot gate at Brooklyn apartments

  Paul Napoli | May 08, 2012 1:14 AM | 2 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  A 12-year-old boy is dead after playing a game with other children involving an automatic parking lot gate at an apartment complex in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn. Yakim McDaniels died...

• Elite New York State Police security detail hits two pedestrians in two days

  Paul Napoli | January 23, 2012 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  State troopers from a special security squad hit and severely injured pedestrians in two separate incidents last week, both in Mount Kisco near Governor Cuomo’s Westchester County home. ...

• "Formal silverware" and the State of New York's duty to its psychiatric patients

  Edward Nitkewicz | September 13, 2011 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsLong Island, NY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In what a Court of Claims Judge ruled a specious defense claim, the State of New York argued that its duty to account for knives in its psychiatric hospitals should extend to silverware and not...

• Kids Injured When Wind Blows Away Three Long Island Bounce Houses

  Paul Napoli | June 05, 2011 11:37 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  June 5, 2011 More than a dozen children suffered injuries after strong winds tumbled three inflatable bounce houses at a soccer event, ABC News reports. The incident occurred Saturday...

• Driver of NYC Bound Tour Bus Charged with Manslaughter for Fatal Va. Crash

  Paul Napoli | June 05, 2011 4:09 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  June 4, 2011 The deaths of four passengers in a tour bus crash on their way to New York City last week has resulted in four charges of involuntary manslaughter for the bus driver, reports the...

• 22 People Hurt as New York City Elevator Falls 3 Floors and Crashes

  Paul Napoli | May 19, 2011 1:39 AM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  May 18, 2011 Nearly two dozen people are injured but lucky to be alive after an elevator malfunction caused the car to plunge three stories. The incident occurred about 7:00 am this morning at...

• Dozens Injured in NY to NJ Commuter Train Accident

  Paul Napoli | May 08, 2011 8:11 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  May 8, 2011 The crash of a commuter train traveling from New York City to the Hoboken, NJ terminal has left more than thirty people suffering injuries. According to The Huffington Post, the...

• Japan Nuclear Crisis Prompts Top Priority Quake Review of NY’s Indian Point

  Paul Napoli | March 22, 2011 10:12 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Toxic Substances
  

  March 22, 2011 Amid fears that U.S. nuclear power plants may be susceptible to earthquake damage like the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex in Japan, federal regulators plan to review...

• NY Health Dept. Revises Screening Recommendations After Transplant Recipient Gets HIV

  Paul Napoli | March 17, 2011 12:19 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  March 16, 2011 The New York State Department of Health has revised HIV testing recommendations for hospitals after a kidney transplant recipient contracted the virus from a donor liver after the...

• Brooklyn Hospital Exposed Babies to Unnecessary Radiation

  Paul Napoli | March 01, 2011 1:57 AM | 2 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  February 28, 2011 Technicians at a New York hospital improperly X-rayed premature babies, exposing their whole bodies to dangerous radiation, reports The New York Times. The radiology department...