Bronx Personal Injury & Real Estate Blog

Q: What is a toxic tort?

During the summer months—and even longer in warmer climates-- swimming pools bring happiness and a welcome relief from the heat to people of all ages. Swimming is also great exercise. But swimming pools can be a source of danger and tragedy, too, as New York personal injury attorneys know too well.
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If your loved one has suffered a fall in a nursing home and been seriously injured as a result, you may be wondering, even after receiving an explanation from those in charge, how the accident happened in a place tasked with keeping your relative safe. There are many reasons patients in nursing homes fall. Certainly the elderly and infirm are more prone to falls and fall injuries than the population at large. Unfortunately, however, in too many cases, falls in nursing homes are the result of negligence and/or premises liability.

If your family member is located in the Bronx, Ryan S.
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Q: What do I need to know if I get into a car accident?

Bronx personal injury attorneys understand how upsetting it is to be involved in a car accident especially if serious injuries are sustained. You might be hurt or frightened or flustered – – or all of the above.

What you do-- or do not do-- next may impact your personal injury lawsuit or settlement.
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If you are a generally healthy, energetic person, but experience symptoms of ill health while at work, you may be working in a toxic environment. While the term “toxic workplace” is now more frequently used to describe an atmosphere of discrimination or harassment, what we are discussing here is an environment that is contaminated enough to cause staff members serious physical symptoms.

If you are being sickened by your workplace and your employer is failing to address the issue, you need the services of a seasoned personal injury attorney with experience in toxic tort litigation.

Police brutality has always been a part of the culture, particularly against vulnerable segments of the population. One of those neglected, misunderstood, and badly underserved segments of the population is the mentally ill. Now that illegitimate beating, shootings and other killings by overly aggressive police are coming into open view, it is time for those with psychiatric illnesses to get their day in court.

If you have been brutalized by the police because you suffer from mental illness, or have tragically lost a mentally troubled loved one in a police killing, you need to contact a Read more . . .

The yellow taxis have become a symbol of New York City. It turns out, however, that more and more people are turning to rideshare companies to make their way around the boroughs. Uber vehicles are privately owned and maintained by Uber drivers. Because Uber riders opt for this as opposed to a commercially owned and operated taxi, fares are generally available at a lower rate. It is important, however, to be aware of the implications of being involved in a motor vehicle accident involving Uber.
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Q: Have recent protests resulted in police reform in New York?

Long before George Floyd’s tragic death at the hands —and knees—of Minneapolis police, police brutality attorneys in New York and other American cities have been helping victims of police misconduct and brutality recover compensation for their injuries.

This most recent death rekindled the Black Lives Matter movement to a new level of outrage and sparked weeks of protests across the country demanding police reform and defunding of the police department.

What is police brutality or misconduct?

Police brutality or misconduct may arise when police use more than the minimal amount of force required to control a situation, or if they violate a victim’s civil rights or due process.

Q: Can I sue for medical malpractice over tonsillectomy complications?

When you take your child to the hospital for a tonsillectomy, you expect things to go smoothly, to come home the same day, to feed them a diet of ice cream and see them running around like nothing happened in a day or two. You don’t expect you will need to consult a New York City personal injury attorney. And you never imagine your child would need their leg amputated.
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Slip and falls can lead to serious and lasting impacts that affect your everyday life. Despite what you might have heard, however, being injured because you slipped and fell on someone else’s property does not necessarily mean that the property owner will be financially liable for covering your damages. The Read more . . .

Q: What can I expect from a free consultation with a personal injury attorney?

For some reason, people can feel intimidated by lawyers-- even though the lawyer is there to help them. When you add in the physical pain and the fear over their financial future that many victims of car accidents or other acts of negligence are suffering, it can compound that intimidation.

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To bring a successful medical malpractice claim, you must first be able to establish that a medical relationship existed. It must then be proven that the treating medical professional breached his or her duty of care owed to the patient and was, therefore negligent. This negligence, in turn, must have been the direct cause of real harm suffered by the patient.
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