New York City Personal Injury Law Blog

Whether home is an apartment or a single family house, when one thinks of a home one thinks of a place of safety and security. Tragically, however, safety is not a constant guarantee. A family and community who live in a Brooklyn apartment is living with that sad point after a fatal accident occurred on the apartment's premises last Sunday, possibly due to the problem of insufficient security within the complex.

Reports indicate that a 12-year-old boy who lived in the apartment with his family was playing outside with some fellow children when a freak accident took place. He and the other kids were playing where they shouldn't have been, with the complex's security gate. Somehow, the boy got stuck on the gate and couldn't escape deadly injuries.

In a previous construction accident post, we discussed a case involving a fatal crane collapse. Criminal charges resulted from the New York crane accident, but now the criminal process is over. And the news was not great for the families of the victims who died in the collapse. A court found the owner of the crane and his businesses not guilty of manslaughter.

The legal struggles for the defendant are not over yet. Along with facing criminal charges after the deadly accident in 2008, families of the construction accident victims filed wrongful death lawsuits. They are, of course, dissatisfied with the outcome of the criminal case, regretting that the judge's decision could lead to further crane accidents by the same company.

Macy's is a New York institution and a stop in the itinerary of many a tourist who comes to the Big Apple. However, one woman is probably less than enthusiastic about the department store. She claims that she was badly injured after a slip and fall accident in a Macy's location.

What we know of her case seems pretty routine. The woman has said she was shopping at the store when she slipped on a puddle of liquid. Because Macy's allegedly did not fix the problem fast enough or even put out signs to warn customers, she believes the store is responsible for the harm done to her. She is seeking damages and court costs.

This week, we will share a couple of posts related to crane accidents in New York. There is currently a big criminal case going on as a result of a fatal crane accident that took place in May 2008. A crane owner was charged with manslaughter after one of his cranes collapsed and killed two workers.

The owner and his defense attorneys are persistently arguing that it wasn't negligence on the defendant's part that caused the fatal accident. Prosecutors accuse the crane owner of hiring a cheap, ineffective party to repair part of the crane. His allegedly thrifty decision, the prosecution claims, made for an unsafe crane and, therefore, unsafe workers.