May 2009 Blog | New York Personal Injury Attorney

Family Of Neglected Patient Settles Wrongful Death Case Against New York City For $2 Million

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 28, 2009

The New York wrongful death lawyers representing the family of a patient who died last summer at Kings County Hospital settled their wrongful death lawsuit against New York City for $2 million, The ...

Study Finds That Workplace, Construction Accidents Increase Following Daylight Savings Time

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 28, 2009

In a study of some interest to New York construction accident lawyers, two doctoral students at Michigan State University have conducted research that shows a 5.7 percent jump in the rate of workplace ...

As Companies Face Bankruptcy, Lawyers Settle Some Cases

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 26, 2009

The Daily News ran a story this morning that poses a troubling question to New York personal injury lawyers: What happens to a lawsuit when the company you are suing goes bankrupt? This unfortunate ...

For Lawyers, A Streak As Remarkable As The Yanks' Recent Wins

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 22, 2009

In the fourth such accident in a week, a construction worker fell three stories and emerged relatively unscathed, the Daily News reports. Ronald McGovern, a “steel king” boss at the construction site ...

Cornell Study Finds The Obvious: Employers Are Making It Harder For Unions To Organize Workers

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 21, 2009

A new study of interest to all New York construction accident lawyers comes to some discouraging, though unsurprising, conclusions about the state of organized labor in this country. The New York ...

Teenage Driver And Passenger Killed In Queens Car Accident

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 21, 2009

Two teenage boys were killed in Rosedale yesterday when their car shifted into the wrong lane and crashed into another vehicle, the Daily News reports. The driver, 17-year-old Stephen Bachoon of ...

Brooklyn Girl Falls 30 Feet Through Skylight, Survives With Broken Arm And Leg

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 15, 2009

An eight-year-old Brooklyn girl fell 30 feet through a skylight near a rooftop playground yesterday afternoon, breaking an arm and a leg, the New York Post reports. The girl, whose name was not ...

New York Attorney Wants The Plane Truth

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 14, 2009

A stalled twin-engine turboprop commuter plane slams into a suburban upstate New York home and bursts into a fiery explosion that kills all 49 people on board and one person on the ground. At first, ...

Questions About Pilot's Fatigue And Qualifications At Hearings On Upstate New York Plane Crash

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 14, 2009

At hearings investigating the upstate New York plane crash that killed 51 people this February, after it became clear that pilot error almost surely caused the accident, Colgan Air executives were ...

Another Broken Elevator, Another Young Boy Injured

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 12, 2009

A seven-year-old Bronx boy broke his leg in an elevator accident yesterday while trying to escape from the car he was stuck in, the Daily News reports. Milton Apolinaris was on his way to visit a ...

Brain Surgeons' Abandoned Patient Speaks Out

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 12, 2009

Jennifer Ronca, the patient whom Drs. Bolognese and Milhorat (both of whom have unrelated New York medical malpractice cases pending against them) abandoned in North Shore University Hospital’s ...

Grandmother, Grandson Injured In Elevator Accident In Long Island Church

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 11, 2009

A 66-year-old woman and her eight-year-old grandson were injured in an elevator accident Sunday morning when the elevator they were riding suddenly dropped 10 feet, Newsday reports. The pair was ...

After Settling Daughter's New York Personal Injury Case, Mother Commits Suicide

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 8, 2009

Susan Perry’s only child, 18-year-old Natalie Smead, was killed in 2006 when a train ran her over after she fell through an eight-inch gap onto the tracks at the Long Island Rail Road station in ...

Second Car Accident In Three Days During Shoot Of Nicolas Cage Film

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 6, 2009

Superstitious New York auto accident lawyers beware – this story may put you on edge. Nine crew members were injured in the second car accident in three days during the New York shoot of Nicolas ...

Common Sidewalk Accidents Can Be Serious, Even Deadly, Warns Lawyer

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 6, 2009

Severe cuts and bruises, broken bones, fractured skulls, brain and other internal injuries, chronic pain and suffering, hospitalization and medical expenses, loss of work, even loss of life — these ...

Crash Upstate Kills Two Young Children, Injures Father

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

The Buffalo News (among a slew of other local news outlets) has the story of a tragic car crash that killed a four- and six-year-old and left their father in the hospital with brain injuries and a ...

Former Plant Manager Gets 70 Months For Lying, Impeding An Osha Investigation

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

John Prisque, a Pennsylvania plant manager, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison on a conspiracy charge that involved polluting the Delaware River, impeding OSHA and EPA investigations, lying ...

Labor Secretary Promises Hundreds Of New Investigators, Many To Be Assigned To OSHA

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis reiterated her commitment to hiring hundreds of new investigators and strengthening enforcement of OSHA rules yesterday, the Las Vegas Sun reports . Ms. Solis made the ...

OSHA Fines Buffalo News in Reporter's Accident At Football Game

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

An article in today’s Buffalo News poses an interesting question to New York personal injury lawyers: should OSHA fine a newspaper when a reporter dies while covering a story? OSHA inspectors ...

Some Work On New York City Baseball Stadiums Performed By Allegedly Corrupt Contractors

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

The demolition of Shea Stadium as well as the electrical work and some of the excavation and concrete work on the new Yankee Stadium were performed by companies accused of corruption and links to ...

Suit Filed Against New York City Housing Authority For Poor Elevator Maintenance

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

New York lawyers representing a group of seven tenants have filed a class action lawsuit against the New York City Housing Authority, accusing the agency of “widespread and systemic failure to ...

The New York Workers' Compensation System Exposed As Are the Insurance Company Doctors

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

For thirty years I have practiced as a New York Personal Injury Lawyer and try to explain to people, jurors and friends what it is like to try to navigate the courts and the New York Worker’s ...

AIG Stiffs Military Contractors Injured In Iraq

Posted by The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.| May 1, 2009

Everyone’s (least) favorite company, AIG, has been denying and delaying claims from military contractors injured in Iraq, ABC News reports. AIG, which has received nearly $100 billion in public money ...