In today's world, we expect that a healthy college student will overcome just about any virus or infection with the help of modern medicine. However, it sometimes takes more than a hospital to help a patient survive. When a deadly bacteria outbreak occurs, it requires...
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Fatal School Gym Accident Raises Safety Questions
Parents throughout the country were shocked and saddened to learn of a fatal accident at a New Jersey school last week.A 7-year-old boy was playing soccer when the ball struck a bench that folded into the wall. As he went to retrieve the ball, the bench fell out of...
Elevator Safety: Not A Priority For Some Buildings
In breaking news, a worker was killed in a Manhattan elevator accident earlier today. The details are still thin, but it appears that a man was working in the shaft when he was pinned between two elevator cars. He died at the scene.While most New York elevator...
Ski Resort Accidents: Who Is To Blame?
While New York has some excellent ski resorts, many aren't aware of the high risk of an accident until they have already been injured. More than 40 people die each year in the U.S. from skiing/snowboarding accidents, on average, according to the National Ski Areas...
Five Important Questions To Ask After A Playground Accident
There are more than 200,000 playground injuries each year requiring emergency room visits. While playground accidents are relatively common, they involve an array of legal issues that prove confusing to parents of injured children.To help you out, we have listed five...
Child Stairway Falls Are Nearly Always Preventable
Even the best parent or babysitter cannot have eyes on a child every second, but that is all the time it takes for a toddler or baby to go tumbling down a set of stairs. When a young child (5 or younger) falls down the stairs and needs medical treatment, a head injury...
Injured NYC Tourists Are Often Shortchanged
People in the U.S. rely heavily on the civil court system to receive compensation for harms they have unfairly suffered. This is in contrast to many countries where wrongly injured people are left without legal recourse. The situational difference leaves many foreign...
NYC Trying To Reduce Injuries, Deaths Caused By Falling Branches
In 2009, a young man was walking in Central Park when a large tree branch snapped overhead and fell on him. The branch damaged his lungs, spinal cord and brain, leaving him paralyzed and cognitively disabled.The victim's family sued New York City and eventually...
Construction Mishap Raises Legal Questions About Freak Accidents
A woman was simply trying to get a workout at an Upper East Side fitness center last week. Instead, she was taken to the hospital after a freak accident.The victim was stretching on a mat when a 10-pound drill bit came crashing through the double-paned window at the...
Inadequate Security At Issue In Elevator Stabbings
Many Brooklyn parents are fearful for the lives of their children after two people were fatally stabbed in elevators during separate attacks in the past week. A 7-year-old girl remains in critical condition from her stabbing. The suspect has not been apprehended.Both...
Summer Threats To NYC Kids: Cars, Dogs And… Bounce Houses?
As school children anxiously count the days to summer break, it is important for parents in New York City to remember that longer days of outside play bring a greater risk of injury.Every summer, auto accidents involving children experiences a seasonal spike. Kids are...
Harlem Explosion Exposes Children To Lead Paint Problem
Tenants at 89 E. 116 St. in Harlem are upset about the shoddy cleanup of their apartments following a fatal gas explosion last month. The tenants have filed suit against their landlord and New York City, complaining that toxic lead paint hazards were not mitigated...
Girl Critically Injured By 35-Foot Fall Down NYC Elevator Shaft
A 12-year-old girl was seriously injured after falling into a Manhattan elevator shaft last week.The elevator accident occurred in the lobby of a SoHo apartment building. The child-victim plummeted 35 feet before hitting the bottom at the sub-basement floor.Emergency...
Suspected Gas Explosion Collapses Section Of Harlem, Six Dead
An explosion collapsed two buildings and sent smoke billowing throughout Harlem Wednesday morning.Con Edison employees were sent to 116th street to examine a possible gas leak. A short time later an explosion erupted, partially collapsing two buildings and killing at...
Snowplow Accident Injures Several Diners In Queens Restaurant
A spike in snowplow accidents has many New Yorkers on edge when snow-removal equipment is near them. A Brooklyn woman was recently killed in a Bay Ridge parking lot and diners at a Queens restaurant nearly suffered the same fate on Friday.Roughly 40 people were in Exo...