New York Personal Injury Law Blog

Students in New York ride the school bus every weekday. The parents of those children and teenagers expect they will arrive at their destinations safely. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Motor vehicle accidents happen.

Recently, a bus accident occurred in Gerry, New York, on Route 60. The bus was transporting high school athletes to a track meet. Rather than finding their way to the track, they found their way to a hospital. So did two people in an SUV that was struck by the bus, officials say.

One individual on the scene immediately after the crash witnessed police officers and firefighters investigating and taking photos. Some were cutting the door from the passenger side of the SUV, suggesting serious injury

When individuals travel along stretches of roadway provided by the city or state, they likely feel secure in terms of the safety of the roadways and their structures. Sadly, this belief is not always well-founded. A recent accident has turned the spotlight on what some consider unsafe roadways in New York.

Recently, seven individuals were killed in a fatal car accident in which an SUV plunged off the Bronx River Parkway and fell 50 feet into a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo.

Grieving individuals search for a way to become whole again. In an attempt to accomplish this goal, they sometimes pursue a civil personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit. A woman in New York has found herself in this situation. This woman has been grieving for some time after her daughter was murdered by the man known as the Craigslist killer in April 2009.

The murder occurred at the Boston Marriott Copley hotel where the daughter was working as a prostitute. The woman is claiming the hotel chain, which she is suing, knew of the prostitution occurring at the hotel in the months before her daughter's death.

Injuries happen in New York and elsewhere. It is simple a fact of life. When an individual or company is at fault for the injury a person sustains, however, a civil suit may follow.

In December, an 83-year-old woman from Queens suffered a broken nose while visiting an Apple store in Manhasset. She was at the store in hopes of returning an iPhone. While there, she did not realize there were clear glass doors in the building. She walked right into the see-through doors, fracturing her nose.