Premier NY Personal Injury Lawyers
The results are in: for the fifth consecutive year, personal injury law firm Block O'Toole & Murphy dominates the Top Settlements report, as published by the New York Law Journal.In 2016, the law firm achieved 4 of the Top 5, 5 of the Top 10 and 6 of the Top 20...
Congratulations are in order for Partner Daniel O'Toole*, who received his alma mater's prestigious 'Founder's Medal' during Bergen Catholic High School's Crusader Gala on November 18, 2016.In addition to being a proud graduate of the renowned prep school in Oradell,...
Two more construction workers were added to the list of courageous men and women who have given their lives in the performance of their work duties in New York City's construction industry. The accident happened on Nov. 22 at a residential housing complex that was...
Another tragedy at a New York City construction site.This time, an elevator mechanic was severely injured when he fell down an elevator shaft at a Brooklyn construction site. 42 Year-old Tracy Buyes showed up for his second day of work at a building in the Bushwick...
New York, New York - During a windy morning on February 5, 2016, a crawler crane, stretched nearly 600 feet in the air, fell to the ground in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca, tragically killing 38-year-old David Wichs on his way to work. The crane...
It was supposed to be an ordinary Wednesday at work.It turned out to be anything but that for 31 year-old Michael Buffamante, a Hawthorne, NY resident who was killed while working for Welkin Mechanical. Buffamante was working on a scaffold that was elevated above a 35...
Block O'Toole & Murphy was recently recognized by ALM in a newly-released list of only 50 law firms in the entire United States that achieved the largest total recoveries for plaintiffs over a 12-month period.The announcement, reported by ALM's The National Law...
Machinery at a construction site malfunctioned and 43 year-old construction worker Paul Kennedy lost his life as a result.The fatal construction accident, which occurred at 61 Bond Street, between State and Schermerhorn Streets, right in the heart of Downtown...
We are proud to have been recognized again by 'Super Lawyers', the prestigious attorney rating service that honors the top lawyers and law firms in each area of practice. This year, 9 of our lawyers - well over half of the firm - were chosen as 'Super Lawyers'. Those...
In our previous post, we mentioned that federal investigators were working at pulling event data recorders from a commuter train that crashed in Hoboken on last Thursday. Two primary data elements investigators are looking for on the train's event data recorders are...
