Top Winter Driving Tips to Avoid Car Accidents In Crazy New York
With all the snow and slick and icy road conditions making our nation’s highways treacherous to travel on, it’s important to adopt the following smart policies for road travel. Drive Slower And Avoid Speeding on Icy Highways While our culture has evolved to emphasize punctuality and penalize tardiness, that does not mean you should drive Read More »
Rise of NYC Distracted Driving Accidents Underscores Growing National Car Safety Issue
As electronic devices such as smartphones, headphones and music players become more of a prevalent part of our day-to-day lives, we feel the need to use or enjoy them while driving. Doing so, however, puts drivers at risk for a rapidly growing NY car accident and national car accident issue: distracted driving. Even wearable technology Read More »
N.Y.P.D Veteran Files $10 Million Claim for Metro North Derailment Injuries with Ronemus and Vilensky’s Help
At the time he boarded his 5:54 a.m. Sunday train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan, 22-year N.Y.P.D. veteran Eddie Russell was leaving his home in New Windsor, N.Y. to head off to work. However, as a result of injuries he sustained from Sunday’s Metro North derailment near Spuyten Duyvil, N.Y., it is unlikely that he’ll be Read More »
New N.Y.P.D. Data on NYC Car Accident Cases Show Revealing Results
In 2011, the transportation committee of New York City’s City Council approved three bills to allow greater public access regarding NYC car accident case crash data as a way to improve pedestrian safety. Under Jessica Lappin’s “Saving Lives Through Better Information” bill, the Council tasked the N.Y.P.D. with releasing regular car accident case collision data Read More »
$1.25 Million Settlement for Erb’s Palsy
In this case, the injured baby’s mother claimed that the delivering physician failed to take measures to prevent severe injury. Instead, when the baby wouldn’t arrive, the doctor applied excessive traction and twisted the baby’s head, which damaged the nerves leading from the spinal cord to the baby’s arm. Nerve graft surgery, using a nerve Read More »
Ronemus & Vilensky NYC Premises Liability Attorneys Help Client Win $9.9 Million Jury Award In Premises Liability Case
Last month, one of our clients, 52-year-old Carol Nudelman, received over $9.9 million from a Brooklyn federal jury to compensate for medical bills, bodily injury and suffering she sustained from a premises liability case at Costco. As the New York Post recently reported, Mrs. Nudelman was shopping with her new husband at Costco’s Brooklyn location, Read More »
Common Construction Site Safety Issues That Can Lead to Occupational Injury
Construction site safety has become a paramount concern on construction projects. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of fatal workplace injuries in the private construction sector has increased by 5 percent from 738 in 2011 to 775 in 2012. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration has Read More »
Advice From A New York Construction Accident Attorney When You Are Injured At Work
What To Do The Moment You’re Injured At Work Nobody plans to get injured at work. But it happens and that can leave you scrambling to figure out what to do. If you have been injured at work it’s important to take the right steps. Doing so will safeguard your rights as an employee and Read More »
False Arrest and the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy
Two years ago, Kenrick Gray, an African-American resident of Staten Island, was aggressively stopped and frisked by a NYPD officer named Michael Daragjati. Although he didn’t find any weapons or contraband on Gray, Dargjati took Gray into custody after he complained about the way he was treated during the stop and frisk. He ended up Read More »
Malicious Prosecution and the Law in New York
Malicious prosecution is considered a common law intentional tort violation that is generally found when an individual has been targeted for deliberate prosecution without solid evidence at to why. Under New York law, a plaintiff has the burden of proving five elements to establish malicious prosecution: 1) The defendant initiated a prosecution against the plaintiff Read More »
