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Blog Posts in May, 2009

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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