Premier NY Personal Injury Lawyers
Earlier this year, partners Jeffrey Block, Daniel O'Toole, and Stephen Murphy were once again honored by the Best Lawyers® list, and this month, all three are featured on the cover of the 2018 New York City Best Lawyers® magazine. Each year, Best Lawyers®...
Occurring on Labor Day weekend and wedged in a news cycle that includes two catastrophic hurricanes, you may not have heard about the tragedy that occurred in New York City on September 5th. Six innocent bystanders at Staten Island's Page Laundromat were injured...
There has been a lot of confusion about the insurance coverage afforded to drivers, passengers, and pedestrians injured in automobile accidents involving Uber or Lyft vehicles. If you've been involved in an Uber or Lyft accident in New York State, here is what you...
Tragically, a worker died last week as a result of a fall from a two-story home on 50th Ave., near 94th St. in Corona, Queens, as reported by the New York Daily News.At around 11:50am on October 18th, the 60-year-old worker, whose name has not yet been released, was...
It's the fifth strongest storm to ever hit the United States. On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made a direct hit on Puerto Rico and left widespread destruction behind. The 150 mph winds and flooding rain knocked out power for the entire island and wrecked...
SEATED (left to right): Daniel O'Toole, Jeffrey Block, Stephen Murphy; STANDING: Frederick Aranki, Ravi Sattiraju, David Scher, Michael Hurwitz, Scott Occhiogrosso, S. Joseph Donahue, Christina (Mark) Mercado Once again, over half the attorneys at Block O'Toole &...
A construction worker was seriously injured after a beam fell on him and pinned him to the ground at a construction site in East Harlem on Friday September 29, 2017, as reported by the New York Post. The incident occurred on Third Avenue near East 125th Street.The...
After the sad deaths of 2 construction workers in New York City, Assemblyman Francisco Moya is pressing lawmakers to pass a construction safety law. The proposed bill is called "Carlos' Law". It is named after deceased construction worker Carlos Moncayo, who died in a...
At around 6:15AM on Monday, September 18, a Q20 MTA bus and a Dahlia Travel and Tours bus collided at the busy intersection of Northern Boulevard and Main Street in Flushing, Queens, as reported by The New York Times.Three people were killed and at least 15 were...
Sickeningly, another worker fell to his death last week at a Manhattan construction site. On Friday August 18, 2017, 22-year-old Jonathan Wieslaw Lupinski of Yonkers was stripping the elevator shaft of a NoMad condominium building when he fell 20 feet down to the...
