A house fire tragically claimed the lives of two sisters early Wednesday morning as they slept in their Southampton vacation home. During a visit from their home in Maryland, Lindsay and Jillian Wiener were sleeping when the fire started in an upstairs bedroom when...
Three people were seriously injured in an accident on July 21, 2022 in which a school bus overturned on the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx. Shortly after 6:00 a.m. Thursday morning, the school bus carrying dozens of passengers flipped onto its side while...
Construction Safety Week runs during the first week of May each year. Since 2014, this initiative has been working to create a stronger, safer workplace. We would like to take the last day of this year’s awareness campaign to remind our community to stay safe on and...
Partner David Scher was recently nominated as President-Elect of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) for the 2022-2023 term. Mr. Scher previously served one year as Parliamentarian before being elected to his current position of Second Vice President...
As the COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us to quarantine at home, door-to-door delivery services became increasingly popular. The ability to order groceries, prepared meals, and other goods directly to our front doors made shopping more convenient and allowed...
It was a warm summer day in August of 2019 when 5-year-old Alysson Pinto-Chaumana went with her mother to visit a relative in Bushwick. Accompanied by a few friends, the mother and daughter had paused on an enclosed patio, waiting at the front door of a three-story...
A Brooklyn construction worker lost his life on Thursday in yet another tragic New York crane accident. Lungo Oleg, 36, was working to unload steel beams during the construction of a strip mall when he was crushed to death in Hudson Valley, New York. Oleg was working...
A mother and child were injured by falling debris from construction site scaffolding while walking on the Upper West Side.
A frightening accident on March 7, 2022, left a dozen people injured after an MTA bus crashed into a dump truck in St. George, Staten Island. The crash occurred at around 11:00 a.m. at Richmond Terrace and Hamilton Avenue. According to reports, the bus was traveling...
On the morning of March 1, 2022, a construction worker was injured at a residential construction site in Westhampton Beach, NY when he fell through a hole in the floor. Thankfully, the worker did not sustain life-threatening injuries and he is reportedly in stable...
