Wrongful Death

When walking around New York City, everywhere you look, signs indicate that the city is in the midst of a building boom. From soaring cranes and towering scaffolding structures to walled off massive construction sites, signs of development and renovation are obvious...

Every season of the year has its own big holidays: summer has the Fourth of July and Labor Day. Autumn is filled with Halloween and Thanksgiving. Winter gives us Christmas, New Year's and the celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday, while the end of spring is...

It has been 115 years since Henry H. Bliss stepped down from a New York City streetcar and into the pages of history books. The unfortunate man was run over by an electric taxi cab, dying of his injuries the next day.  He thus became the first person in the...

His mother said coping with the loss is "harder every day." The man's widow said her in-laws have been her "rock."The man had been working on a construction project for a contractor when the accident happened.He leaves behind an 11-year-old daughter, a four-year-old...

It was nearly 7 o'clock last Tuesday morning as an off-duty New York City police officer headed to work on the New York State Thruway. Before he arrived, he made a decision that has investigators puzzled: while driving north, he made a U-turn across the northbound...

He was just 14 years old when he lost a brother to cystic fibrosis. Since then he has worked in his Brooklyn community to help raise money to fight the genetic disorder that affects so many. But now his good deeds in memory of his brother have been stopped forever by...

"She was a rambunctious 9-year-old," said the girl's mother. "She loved to dance, she wanted to be a pediatrician." All of the life and energy in that little girl came to an end this past Sunday as she left a New York City church with a friend and the friend's mom....

Virtually all residents of New York City agree that government paperwork and red tape are annoyances we all must live with to one degree or another. Sometimes, however, the bureaucratic maze causes real harm, whether intentional or not.A new study reveals that alcohol...

New York City is dealing with an increased number of pedestrian accidents. In the first two weeks of 2014 alone, seven pedestrians were killed in the city, and one more pedestrian recently died after being struck by a backhoe in Brighton Beach.The victim was a...

A 9-year-old boy and a 73-year-old man are dead after separate motor vehicle accidents on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Police were investigating both pedestrian accidents, and it was unclear if either driver would face charges.The boy was struck by a cab and killed...