New York’s Unfair Medical Malpractice Statute
Under New York State’s medical malpractice statute of limitations, if you have been injured due to the negligence or “departure from good and accepted medical practice” of a physician, hospital or...
View ArticleFirst Of Many Lawsuits From Carnival Triumph Disaster Filed In Galveston
On February 20, 2013, the first of what is sure to be numerous personal injury lawsuits resulting from the disastrous Carnival Triumph cruise was filed in Galveston County District Court in Texas by...
View ArticleWestchester County Settles Playland Wrongful Death Claim
In a case we wrote about almost six years ago, Westchester County and the owner of the “Mind Scrambler” ride at Playland have agreed to settle the wrongful death case of the late Gabriela Garin, a 21...
View ArticleFamily of Chappaqua Teen In Fatal MVA Fights Distracted Driving
In a story by Terence Corcoran in the May 20, 2013 edition of the Journal News, the family of Evan Lieberman, a 19 year old student at the University of Connecticut who was killed in a motor vehicle...
View ArticleMichael Jackson Wrongful Death Lawsuit Enters Final Stages
The wrongful death trial of Michael Jackson has been an extensive five month battle in an L.A. courtroom between Katherine Jackson, the mother of the late “King of Pop”, and AEG Live, the concert...
View ArticleUS Department Of Transportation Sued Over Backup Cameras
This morning, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) was sued by Public Citizen and several consumer advocate groups for a long standing delay in implementing a 5 year old law mandating...
View ArticleLA Jury Finds Concert Promoter Not Responsible For Michael Jackson’s Death
After five months of a grueling, hotly contested legal battle, on October 2, 2013, a Los Angeles jury, comprised of six men and six women, found concert promoter AEG not liable in the June, 2009...
View ArticleNTSB Reports That Metro North Engineer In Derailment Had Severe Sleep Apnea
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that William Rockefeller, the Metro North Engineer at the helm of the train which derailed in Spuyten Duyvil on December 1, 2013, killing 4 and...
View ArticlePainkiller Lawsuit-More Legal Problems For The NFL?
On May 20, 2014, 8 former NFL players filed a lawsuit against the National Football League in San Francisco U.S. District Court, alleging that the league illegally and deceptively plied them with...
View ArticleNYC “Vision Zero” Plan Introduces Reduced Speed Limit of 25 MPH
For the last several years, several European countries, including Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway, and some states in the U.S., have adopted a program known as “Vision Zero” in an all-out effort to...
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