Bronx Personal Injury & Real Estate Blog

Q: Are NYPD officers properly-trained to handle people with mental illnesses?

Police brutality and misconduct cases are seemingly commonplace in New York City. Part of what’s driving the numbers up may be the NYPD's apparent failure to provide crisis intervention training to all frontline officers on how to handle the emotionally disturbed or mentally ill people they encounter on a call. If the number of people suffering from mental health issues is also increasing, this combination could be a recipe for recurrent disaster.
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Q: Does the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA) have secret mobile crash clean-up crews?

A New York City personal injury attorney convincingly argued to a jury that there was a "conspiracy to hide or skew the evidence" in the post-accident investigation of an MTA bus accident that caused "disabling injuries" to a passenger.

The theory presented was like something right off the silver screen. "The MTA has mobile crash squads around the city that swoop down on the scenes of bus collisions and orchestrate cover ups" according to the plaintiff’s allegations.

Sadly, not everybody gets to live happily ever after.

It was only hours after a couple tied the knot that one of their wedding guests who was driving home reportedly caused a horrific four-car automobile accident in Queens that left two of his passengers dead and seven people injured.

The alleged drunk driver was reportedly traveling westbound in the right lane on the Grand Central Parkway with an SUV full of passengers when he lost control after sideswiping a car and traveled across three lanes of traffic, hitting another SUV.
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Q: Do reckless actions give rise to personal injury lawsuits?

Sometimes a car driving recklessly through a parking garage and emerging onto a busy city street happens on a movie set. Other times it's actually reality in New York City where unpredictable Read more . . .

Q: Can I sue for personal injuries in a road rage accident?

Automobile accidents are a fact of life, especially in New York City and the surrounding areas. While lucky passengers may escape with minor injuries when they’re protected by a vehicle’s steel frame, such is rarely the case when pedestrians are the victims.

Q: Can I sue for injuries in a subway derailment accident?

New York City commuters have grit. Whether attempting to avoid an automobile accident above ground, or venturing into the bowels of the city’s subway system, navigating Manhattan is often like an accident waiting to happen.

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Q: Who is at fault if multiple drivers hit a pedestrian?

A hit-and-run automobile accident literally adds insult to injury. It is bad enough when a driver’s reckless, negligent, or intentional actions or inactions cause personal injury or wrongful death to someone else, but failing to stop and render aid or call for help makes the situation worse for both the driver and the victim.

It's even harder to imagine multiple vehicles following suit, striking the same victim and also driving away.

Q: Is there legal and emotional support for mothers of police brutality victims?

It seems every day that headlines and video footage demonstrate the brutality and violence escalating worldwide. Bronx police brutality and police misconduct lawyers see the violence, too.

But while some may argue the current political climate is responsible for what may feel like an uptick in police brutality or misconduct incidents, there has been a long history of so-called “bad blood” between NYPD officers and some of the people they've arrested or killed and their families.
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Q: Is intent to injure or kill required in a personal injury or wrongful death action?

One Bronx man is allegedly responsible for killing one person and injuring almost 2 dozen others in a single incident in Times Square in New York City. The victims were not taken down by a gun, but rather by a car. Each day hundreds of Americans are injured or killed in automobile accidents.
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Q: What charges and consequences may a police officer face for off-duty conduct unbecoming an officer?

A drunken driving car accident in the pre-dawn hours in New York City is not necessarily newsworthy these days. But when it results in the serious personal injury and wrongful death of two sisters and their friend, people take notice. Add to that the allegation that the accident was caused by an off-duty NYPD officer driving while intoxicated-- and it’s front page news.
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Q: Is New York City to blame for a truck accident due to conditions on a milled and unpaved road?

A Saturday morning family drive on Bruckner Boulevard went horribly awry when a sanitation truck hit and crushed the family’s sedan, killing one of the four occupants and leaving the remaining three injured.

The fatality was a three-year-old girl on her way to dance class with her parents and grandmother. The girl was pronounced dead at the hospital and the others sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The privately-owned sanitation truck driver was not criminally charged.

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