Wrongful Death

On Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, a partial building collapse occurred at a Queens demolition site, tragically killing David Johnson and severely injuring another worker. Johnson, 50, was declared dead at the scene of the accident. The other injured worker was taken to...

Another tragic death due to a construction accident occurred in New Rochelle, New York on the afternoon of Wednesday, February 12, 2020. 26-year-old Alejandro Manuel Caisaguano Pellisa was performing a job on the outside of a building on Union Avenue. In order to do...

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, at about 11:55 a.m., 68-year-old Judith Wieder was tragically killed by a cement mixing truck while crossing the street in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. This, unfortunately, was the second reported pedestrian death to occur on this...

A devastating accident occurred on the dreary morning of December 17, 2019, when 60-year-old Erica Tishman was tragically killed after she was struck by debris that fell from a building façade in Times Square. Department of Buildings (DOB) Engineers continue to...

On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, six people and three companies were charged for their role in the death of construction worker Luis Almonte Sanchez in a 2018 accident. All six defendants plead not guilty to their charges. In September 2018, Sanchez was...

On the morning of Tuesday, October 29, 2019, Frankie Torchia went to work and tragically never returned home. Torchia, a 33-year-old construction worker from Utica, and a coworker were in the process of setting a 30-foot piece of metal on the roof of a four-story...

On the morning of October 21, 2019, two construction workers were injured, one fatally, after a wall collapsed at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue on the Lower East Side. Officials from the Department of Buildings are investigating the incident. At around 10:00am,...

An inexcusable mistake by an air traffic controller led to the death of pilot Joseph Milo earlier this month, according to reports released by the NTSB. The air traffic controller directed the pilot, who was operating a plane that was experiencing some mechanical...

Christian Ginesi, a 25-year-old construction worker, died after falling down an elevator shaft at a construction site. He was working on building a midtown Manhattan luxury hotel. The attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy have the details of yet another New York...

Yet another truck accident involving a city sanitation truck has killed a New York City resident, this time on Staten Island. An elderly woman was returning from her daily trip to the local store to get her paper and coffee when she was hit crossing the street at...