Personal Injury

In serious injury cases, one of the greatest challenges is helping jurors, judges, and the defense attorneys and insurance companies truly understand the full extent of how an accident has impacted a client and their family. Attorneys use multiple methods to make this...

According to some estimates, New York City is home to more elevators than any other city in the United States, with the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) reporting more than 84,000 elevator devices under its jurisdiction. As a result, there is a higher...

An electric scooter caused a large fire in a Bronx apartment building when its lithium-ion battery overheated, according to FDNY officials. This frightening incident occurred on the morning of Tuesday, January 12, 2021. The e-scooter was located in the living room of...

A terrible crash occurred on September 28th, 2020, when 7-year-old Sama Ali was struck and killed by an armored truck while crossing a Brooklyn street with family and friends. Police are investigating the details surrounding this tragedy. At around 4:10 p.m. on Monday...

On Saturday, September 12, a rear-end collision tragically took a driver's life in Queens. The unidentified driver of a Ford Fusion was driving on South Conduit Avenue in Laurelton when he passed a cement truck. According to an NYPD spokesperson, the cement truck then...

A stolen vehicle was the cause of a frightening multi-vehicle crash involving an MTA bus in Brooklyn on Thursday, August 13, 2020. It all happened at approximately 6:00 p.m. at the intersection of East 87th Street and Avenue M in Canarsie, when a stolen car sped...

Block O'Toole & Murphy attained a record-breaking verdict of $110,174,972--the number one verdict in all of New York State--as well as the top second and third settlements ($11,500,000 and $11,000,000), as listed in the New York Law Journal's recently-released...

Illegal building work is to blame in a Brooklyn building façade collapse that left a man with a fractured skull. On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at approximately 3:00 p.m., Oumar Ba was walking by a Crown Heights grocery store when video surveillance captured debris and...

One person was killed and three were injured shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 in a tragic boating accident on Long Island. The driver of the boat, 48-year-old Francesco Distefano, was charged with boating while intoxicated. The weekend outing went...