Bronx Personal Injury & Real Estate Blog

Q: Are players’ deaths during rigorous pre-season training sessions grounds for a wrongful death lawsuit?

Americans love their sports, from baseball and hotdogs in the summer to football and chili in the fall. But the training season for each high school sport begins weeks or even months earlier which, in the case of football, means wannabe superstars hit the field for conditioning drills during the hottest weeks of the year.

This summer, an upcoming high school freshman on an academic scholarship to a private Catholic school in the Bronx died during his second pre-season work-out with the junior varsity football team.

Was this a wrongful death?

Relatives have reportedly questioned whether "heat and negligence" caused the boy’s death. During a running drill the boy allegedly "told coaches he was exhausted but was told to run one more lap.
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Q: Can I sue for injuries sustained in Central Park?

Apparently, money does grow on trees. At least on rotting ones in Central Park.

A New York City personal injury attorney is reportedly filing a $200 million lawsuit against the city and the Central Park Conservancy on behalf of a young mother and her three young sons in connection with a freak tree accident in Central Park in August.
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Q: Is every death a wrongful death?

There is something particularly tragic, and also ironic, in hearing of a biker dying in a motorcycle accident while he was reportedly returning home from a fallen fellow biker's memorial. Especially when the biker was "very involved in community service and was very loved by everyone".

The Bronx motorcycle accident occurred about 2:00 am when the victim-- who was reportedly traveling home from the memorial along with "approximately 20" members of the Tru 31 Motorcycle Club he co-founded-- rear-ended a sedan and was sent into a guardrail.
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Q: Should I sue or accept an insurance company’s settlement offer?

A Bronx car accident on a sunny and dry afternoon recently left a path of devastation in its wake along a stretch of busy roadway lined with cars and pedestrians.

A 65-year-old woman in an SUV reportedly "barreled down" the road literally slamming into several “parked cars and other vehicles” before her own vehicle flipped over and landed on its side. Neighborhood video surveillance recordings captured the incident, which claimed the life of the woman.
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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.