Personal Injury

A Manhattan woman was tragically killed after she was struck by a cement truck in Brooklyn early Monday morning. It all happened around 7:10 a.m. on November 9, 2020, as the driver was traveling southbound on Bushwick Avenue near Stanwix Street. The victim,...

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...

At approximately 8:30 p.m. on the night of Sunday, August 2, 2020, a tractor-trailer rear-ended a Bronx family's car as they were driving home from vacation on the New York State Thruway, outside the town of Ulster. The mother, 47-year-old Zulika Salim, and two of her...

On Monday August 3, 2020, an unidentified construction worker was seriously injured when he fell through a plank and into the cellar of an Upper East Side townhouse. Workers were demolishing part of the interior at 1083 Fifth Ave. at approximately 8:00 a.m. when the...

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...

At least six people, including five firefighters and a 9-month-old baby, were injured in a fire that tore through an apartment building located in the Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx on Monday, August 5, 2019. The apartment building affected by this fire is...

One person was injured and 58 people (including 20 children) were displaced when part of a building came crashing down at around 2 p.m. Wednesday in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.  The Department of Buildings (DOB) reports that a second floor parapet wall, which was...