A Nassau County jury convicted Joseph Beer, 19, of four counts of vehicular manslaughter in June 2014 for a 2012 car crash that left four of Beer’s friends dead. Beer, who admitted to smoking marijuana before speeding over 100 mph on the Southern State Parkway, was also found guilty of reckless driving and reckless endangerment, […]
Wrongful Death
Employees of Medford Multicare Nursing Home Indicted on Charges Related to Patient’s Death
A Suffolk County grand jury handed down a 46 count indictment against six employees of the Medford Multicare Center for Living, a 320-bed nursing facility in Medford, New York. The indictment alleges that the employees neglected a patient who died under their care. It also charges at least six employees with abuse, falsifying business records, […]
Ninety-Three-Year Old Woman Killed in East Northport House Fire
According to officials of the Suffolk County Police Department, Alice Woods, a 93-year-old resident of East Northport, Long Island, died in a fire that broke out in her residence in May 2014. At 9:25 p.m., 911 dispatchers received a call about the fire at 55 Grover Lane. Two minutes later, East Northport Fire Department First Assistant […]
Ambulance’s Response Time Questioned after Two Four-Year-Old Girls Killed in Queens Fire Sparked by Children Playing with Lighter
New York City officials questioned an ambulance’s response time to a Queens house fire that claimed the lives of two four-year-old girls in April 2014. After EMTs arrived on the scene, 20 minutes after an initial 911 call, the two young girls were immediately rushed to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, where they died shortly thereafter as the […]
Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Juvenile for Setting High Rise Fire that Killed NYPD Officer
Detectives arrested 16-year-old Marcell Dockery for allegedly starting a fire in an 18-story apartment building in Coney Island in April 2014. The fire severely injured NYPD officer Rosa Rodriguez, 36, and killed Dennis Guerra, 38, also an NYPD officer. Both officers were responding to 911 calls that a fire had started in a Coney Island […]
Family of Hofstra Student Accidentally Killed by Police During Hostage Standoff Files Lawsuit
The family of Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra student accidentally killed by a Nassau County police officer during a hostage standoff in May 2013, filed a lawsuit against Nassau County and its police department in August 2013. The suit alleges that Rebello was wrongfully killed when a police officer used deadly force aimed at killing […]
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Accuses General Motors of Knowing about Faulty Ignition Switch for 10 Years
According to a lawsuit filed in March 2014 on the behalf of several Minnesota families of three teenagers severely injured or killed in a 2006 crash linked to a faulty ignition witch, General Motors knew about the switch’s defect for over a decade but never took action to solve the problem. Since February 2014, after […]
NYC Officials: Fatal Blast that Leveled Two Apartment Buildings Likely Caused by Gas Leak
According to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Edward Foppiano, Con Ed’s senior vice president of gas operations, a March 2014 explosion that destroyed two East Harlem apartment buildings was likely caused by a gas leak. The blast, which leveled two 5-story buildings on Park Avenue and East 116th Street, killed seven people […]
Investigators: New Hartford House Fire that Claimed Three Young Lives Caused by Failed Electrical Appliance
According to the New Hartford Fire Department and the New Hartford Police Department, a February 2014 house fire in upstate New York that claimed the lives of two brothers, ages three and seven, and a 21-year-old woman was caused by an electrical appliance that appears to have failed. The failed appliance was along the outside […]
New York State Attorney General: Nine Employees Arrested from Long Island Nursing Home that Has History of Abuse and Neglect
Nine employees of the Medford Multicare Center for Living in Medford, New York were arrested in February 2014 for neglecting patients or trying to conceal the neglect from investigators. Seven of the arrests were linked to the death of a 72-year-old woman at the facility in 2012. In a separate civil suit filed in February […]
Fire Officials Launch Smoke Detector Awareness Campaign after Trailer Home Fire Claims Life of Eight-Year-Old Boy
An upstate New York trailer home fire in January 2014 claimed the lives of three people, including an eight-year-old boy trying to rescue his disabled grandfather. According to Penfield Fire Chief Chris Ebmeyer, the mobile home, which had eight occupants when the blaze broke out, did not have a smoke detector. Ebmeyer stated that a […]
Brooklyn Fire Kills Teen in House that Lacked Smoke Detectors
An early morning house fire in Brooklyn, New York in December 2013 claimed the life of a 16-year-old girl and critically injured her two older sisters. Jasmine Guillaume, 16, was killed after a fire engulfed the second and third floors of her three story home at 293 East Eighth Street in Kensington. Her sisters, Jaima […]
Westchester Aide Faces 15 Years in Prison for Death of 86-Year-Old Disabled Nursing Home Patient
Fifty-four year old Maureen Flowers, a certified nurse aide at the Tarrytown Hall Care Center in Westchester, was arrested in July 2013 for allegedly causing the 2012 death of an 86-year-old disabled patient under her care. Flowers, charged with Manslaughter and Criminally Negligent Homicide, faces up to 15 years behind bars if convicted. On February […]
Plaintiff Granted Partial Summary Judgment in New York Labor Law Claim
Partial summary judgment was granted for the plaintiff in an April labor law suit in Manhattan. The plaintiff’s husband had been working on a lift fixing the ceiling of the defendant property owner when he fell to his death. The First Department granted the plaintiff summary judgment on her Labor Law 240 claim. Pursuant to […]
Brooklyn Senior Citizen Dies after Receiving Incorrect Blood Type
An investigation into the death of a Brooklyn woman at Coney Island Hospital in early June has revealed that hospital error led to the fatal consequences. Hospital staff reportedly misidentified the elderly patient’s blood type, leading to a fatal transfusion of the incorrect type of blood. For the immediate future, the Department of Health has […]
Westchester Nursing Home Pays $12,000 Fine to Department of Health
Andrus on Hudson, a nursing home located in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester agreed to pay a $12,000 fine to the Department of Health. The fine, according to lohud.com, stems from an incident in 2011 in which a resident died while suffering from cardiac arrest. The lohud article cites the date of the incident as May 5, however […]
Manhattan (NYC) Cosmetic Surgeon Surrenders to Face Manslaughter Charges
A Manhattan cosmetic surgeon whose patient died after a risky liposuction procedure turned himself in to police last week on charges of manslaughter, reports the New York Post. Dr. Oleg Davie performed the procedure on a patient who had received a heart transplant in 2004, making the liposuction an extremely dangerous operation. In addition, authorities […]
Department of Health Fines Brooklyn Nursing Home $10,000
The New York State Department of Health recently released its statement of enforcements for the period of July, 2011 through December, 2012. The document lists fines levied against nursing homes and similar facilities throughout the period. The fines are the result of certification surveys taken over a span of several years prior to the enforcement […]
Notice of Claim Against New York City in Bronx Zoo Crash
In April of this year, a minivan carrying a family jumped a barrier on the Bronx River Parkway and plummeted over the side, into the Bronx Zoo. Seven family members were killed in the crash, leaving behind mourning loved ones. The husband of one of the victims of this crash has filed a notice of […]
Falls At Two Nursing Homes In New York Result In Fractured Hips For Residents
At Clinton County Nursing Home in Plattsburgh, NY, Dawn Andrews, a Certified Nurse’s Aide, was found to have violated an elderly resident’s care plan. Ms. Andrews reportedly left a 98-year-old patient unattended during toileting. The resident fell, sustained a fractured hip, and died from these injuries four days later. Unfortunately, this was not an isolated […]
Queens County Supreme Court Dismisses Wrongful Death Suit Against City in Death of Assistant Principal
Last week, Queens County Supreme Court ordered that the complaint against the City of New York be dropped in a wrongful death suit of a Queens Assistant Principal who died of swine flu in 2009. The suit, filed by the decedent’s family, claimed that the city failed to warn the decedent that he had been […]
Bronx Police Search for Hit-and-Run Cab Driver
Police in the Bronx are looking for a livery cab driver who they say struck a pedestrian with his car and then left the scene. After the first hit-and-run, the victim was hit by a sanitation vehicle, the driver of which stayed on the scene. The victim was taken from the accident site at East […]
White Plains NY Pedestrian Accident Lawyer Report: Elderly Driver Strikes And Kills Pedestrian In Yonkers
An elderly driver struck and killed a pedestrian near Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, NY last week. The accident occurred at approximately 7 p.m. on October 21, 2010 at the intersection of Yonkers Avenue and St. John’s Avenue. Yonkers Avenue was closed for a few hours while police investigated. The pedestrian accident resulted in the death […]
New York Accident Attorney Report: Two Pedestrians Killed In Car Accidents Over The Weekend In NYC
Two pedestrians were killed in car accidents in the New York area over the weekend. NYPD detectives are investigating whether a New York City fireman was driving a sport utility vehicle that struck and killed a 25-year-old pedestrian in Brooklyn (NYC) Sunday morning of October 10, 2010. Manuel Tzajguachiac was struck by a BMW SUV […]
Two Killed In Staten Island (NYC) Car Accident
Staten Island, New York: Two young men were died and four others were injured in a single-car crash on Staten Island last week. The driver and five passengers were traveling south on Arthur Kill Road in a blue Nissan Altima just before 1 a.m. when the vehicle reportedly swerved off the road and struck a […]