Jaelin Sence was born on July 4, 2007 at New York Methodist Hospital (NYMH) in Brooklyn. He was discharged two days later after examinations and tests indicated to hospital personnel he was normal and healthy.
The next day, though, Jaelin began to vomit and show
On December 18, 2009, then 12 year old Angel Ramos was struck by a city bus as he was attempting to cross Westchester Avenue between 163rd Street and Rogers Place in the Bronx.
Angel had attended his usual after-school math tutoring class at Sylvan Learning Center and intended to meet up with his aunt and
On December 12, 2008, at about 4:45 p.m., Maria Alcantara tripped and fell when she stepped up from the sidewalk onto the concrete landing at the top of a stairway entrance to a subway station located at Graham and Metropolitan Avenues in Brooklyn. Ms. Alcantara, then 64 years old, fell down to the bottom of
On August 18, 2004 at about 6:30 p.m., Nikura Andino was on duty, riding as as passenger in a New York City Police Department car that was responding to a robbery in progress driving with lights flashing and sirens blaring.
At the same time, Ronald Mills was driving a New York City Transit Authority Chevy
On December 12, 2007, Lucille Martorella tripped and fell on a broken sidewalk in front of the property at 150-20 Centerville Street in Ozone Park. She picked herself up and walked around the block to her home where she rested, dazed and in pain.
Within a couple of days the then 64 year old woman
On December 9, 2008 Karen Lariviere was crossing a street in Brooklyn when she was struck on the side of her head by the side view mirror of a city bus making a turn.
In her ensuing lawsuit against the transit authority, Ms. Lariviere was granted summary judgment on liability and in 2011 the
On December 5, 2004, Anthony Turturro was riding his bicycle on Gerritsen Avenue in Brooklyn when he was struck by a car speeding at about 55 miles per hour in a 30 m.p.h. zone. Anthony, then 12 years old, hit the passenger side of the vehicle and was then thrown into the air landing in
Their traditional potluck dinner on Christmas Eve in 2001 was shaping up to be another wonderful event in the lives of Tom and Lorraine Buckley. As always, Tom had shopped at the local food stores in Warwick, New York and Lorraine prepared the house. A dozen friends arrived, drinks were served and then tragedy began
On September 6, 2006 at about 2 p.m., Matthew Falcone was struck by a telephone company van as he was crossing the street at Stillwell Avenue near its intersection with Bay 43rd Street in Brooklyn.
Stillwell Avenue is a major north-south roadway along which elevated subway tracks run parallel to the surface, supported by large
On July 12, 2004, following an unexpected torrential storm, several inches of rainwater accumulated on the rooftop, overflowed and cascaded down the internal staircase at 365 West 50th Street, a five story walk-up tenement in Manhattan:
That’s where one of the tenants, Joanne Higgins, slipped and fell down the stairs, hitting her head