Posted on August 17th, 2010
36-year old Lamont Racks of Brooklyn suffered a head injury after slipping and falling from the fourth floor fire escape of his apartment building in Brownsville.
NYPD narcotics officers showed up at Racks’ apartment to execute a search warrant last week. When Racks saw the cops, he ran to the fire escape, slipped, and fell four stories to the ground below. Racks was then taken to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition with serious head injuries.
NYPD officers say they found Racks in possession of marijuana.
If you or someone you know has been injured in a slip and fall accident, contact the Brooklyn slip and fall attorneys of Parker Waichman LLP at 1-888-244-2273 to learn more about your rights.
Posted on August 6th, 2010
Thursday, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced its proposal of $16.6 million in fines against three construction companies and fourteen contractors involved in the Kleen Engery Systems LLC power plant construction site explosion in Middletown, Connecticut on February 7th. OSHA is fining the companies and contractors after 371 workplace safety violation accusations, including 225 considered to be willful, and for “blatantly disregard[ing] industry procedures designed to safeguard workers”.
In regards to the workplace accident and safety violations, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis stated, “No operation and no deadline is worth cutting corners and costing a single human life”.
Six workers were killed in the accident and fifty were left injured.
Posted on July 21st, 2010
In 2009, the federal government spent over $1.6 billion on workers’ compensation and 79,000 new workers’ compensation claims were filed by federal employees. Yesterday, President Obama signed an order asking federal agencies to work to lower these numbers in the next four years.
By 2014, Obama hopes federal agencies will have improved their workplace safety standards and as a result reduced the number of injuries and illnesses incurred on the job, reduced the amount of time needed to review a case, and sped up workers’ return to the workplace.
“Many of these work-related injuries and illnesses are preventable, and executive departments and agencies can and should do even more to improve workplace safety and health, reduce the financial burden of injury on taxpayers, and relieve unnecessary suffering by workers and their families,” stated Obama.
Federal agencies will be responsible for paying for any changes necessary.
If you or someone you love has been injured in the workplace, contact the Brooklyn workplace accident lawyers of Parker Waichman LLP at 1-888-244-2273 to learn more about your rights.
Posted on July 15th, 2010
On July 6th, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the elimination of the “opt-out” policy from their lead paint protective regulations. According to the changes, all contractors working in pre-1978 homes must always use lead-safe work practices.
Previously, contractors working in pre-1978 homes were opted out of following lead-safe work practices if there were no children under the age of six present in the home. The EPA decided to change regulations and eliminate the “opt-out” policy because they believe that if contractors working in pre-1978 homes do not follow lead-safe work practices people in the home can suffer serious and harmful health effects regardless of age.
The EPA hopes the change will better protect both “children and adult occupants during and after renovation” projects.
If you or someone you love has suffered from lead paint poisoning, contact the Brooklyn premises liability attorneys of Parker Waichman LLP at 1-888-244-2273 to learn more about your rights.
Posted on July 15th, 2010
A 4-year old girl suffered non-life-threatening injuries after falling down an elevator shaft at a building in the Upper East Side two weeks ago.
The young girl was entering an elevator at 435 East 85th Street with her mother when the accident occurred. She fell into the space between the elevator and landing 20 to 25 feet down to the building’s basement. Her mother and emergency and fire officials were able to rescue the girl soon after. She was then taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital with minor injuries. Officials stated that they were surprised she was not more injured from the accident.
If you or someone you love has been injured by an elevator, contact the Brooklyn elevator and escalator injuries lawyers of Parker Waichman, LLP at 1-888-244-2273 to learn more about your rights.
Posted on July 9th, 2010
The Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn was sued for the wrongful death of psychiatric patient Esmin Green by her family.
Green was sitting in one of the hospital’s waiting rooms for nearly twenty-four hours before collapsing on June 19, 2008. As she tossed and turned on the floor trying to get up, no hospital attendants or patients attempted to help her. On hospital surveillance video footage, two hospital security guards and a member of the medical staff are seen noticing Green, but continuing to walk on without helping her.
After thirty minutes, Green stopped moving. She was on the floor for an hour before any nurses or staff came to check her pulse. Medical examiners said she had suffered from blood clots.
Six hospital employees lost their jobs after the video footage was made public. Green’s family reached a $2 million settlement in the suit. However, now Green’s family’s attorney is seeking criminal charges against anyone who committed a criminal act in Green’s death.
Posted on July 8th, 2010
New York City fire officials have reported that a historic Brooklyn church caught fire yesterday evening. The Baptist Temple Church was up in flames when firefighters responded to reports that it had caught fire. The flames did not spread beyond the church and fortunately, firefighters were able to control the fire by this morning. They are unsure of the cause of the fire and exactly how much damage was done to the church.
The Baptist Temple Church in Brooklyn was built in the 1890′s and has been in the National Register of Historic Places for fifteen years.
Four fire fighters were injured in the fire.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of a fire on someone else’s property, contact the Brooklyn premises liability lawyers of Parker Waichman, LLP at 1-888-244-2273 to learn more about your rights.
Posted on July 6th, 2010
The family of the man killed by an undercover cop in Brooklyn while visiting his mother last July is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the NYPD police office.
Shem Walker, 49, tried to chase the undercover cop off his mother’s stoop last year, unaware that he was a police officer. Walker punched the cop and tried to grab at his gun when the officer fired and shot him. The police officer’s identity has never been released and it is unknown whether he revealed himself to Walker in the struggle or not. Walker was killed by the police officer’s shot.
Walker’s family does not believe the officer’s account of what happened, and instead believes the cop probably panicked and did not identifiy himself.
Walker was unarmed and was a U.S. army veteran.
