Year: 2012

According to statistics compiled by the American Cancer Society, nearly 242,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. In fact, besides skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer among American men. Despite improvements in treatment options in recent years, nearly 30,000

According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, there are nearly 500,000 truck accidents in the United States each year. Approximately 130,000 people are injured and 5,000 people are killed each year as a result of these accidents. In 98 percent of fatal truck accidents, the people killed

Turn signals are not always on the minds of today’s drivers, but a recent study suggests that they should be. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently researched driving practices and found that motorists miss making turn signals about 25 percent of the time. This results in two billion signal

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed a new regulation that would mandate the installation of a brake-override system in all new cars in order to allow drivers to stop their vehicles in the event of a brake failure. The proposal comes in the wake of tragic car

Plaintiff was injured while performing removal of a storefront and demolition on a commercial center owned by defendant. Plaintiff was standing on a makeshift scaffold using two A-frame ladders. After cutting a portion of the facade of the storefront with a “Saws-All”, “the injured plaintiff turned to place that tool

Plaintiff pedestrian was crossing the street in a crosswalk with the light and pedestrian walk signal when struck by a by a NYC Transit bus as it was making a right turn. As the pedestrian was free from comparative fault and the defendant driver of the bus violated the NYC

On June 6, 2012, a Queens County jury rendered a verdict against New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center, for implanting a diseased heart into Ronald Bello causing his death. On November 26, 2006, Mr. Bello, age 49, who had been waiting for a heart transplant, was given the good

Plaintiff, a high school student, was allegedly injured during a softball game when she slid into second base. The cause of the injury was the improperly positioned base that had a pointed side, rather than a flush side facing first base. As plaintiff slid into second base, her left foot

Plaintiff was injured when her vehicle, which was stopped at a stop sign, was struck in the rear by defendant’s vehicle. Defendant’s own deposition testimony established that he was not looking where he was driving when he struck plaintiff’s vehicle which was the sole proximate cause of the accidents. Supreme

Federal Hours of Service (HOS) regulations affect most drivers of commercial vehicles, including those in New York. Generally, a commercial motor vehicle is a vehicle that is used in interstate commerce and meets minimum weight or passenger criteria. Such vehicles include, for example, trucks weighing over five tons that travel