Our Queens personal injury lawyers examine the case of an anonymous five-year-old child who was seriously injured last month after the vehicle he was traveling in rear-ended an MTA bus.  The boy was listed as being in critical condition following the crash. Boy in Critical Condition with Head Injuries, Neck Injuries after Queens MTA Bus …

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Private garbage trucks provide an invaluable sanitation service for New York City.  However, like any vehicle, these trucks can cause a serious or even fatal bicycle accident in Brooklyn when drivers fail to abide by traffic laws, operate with broken equipment, or make careless driving errors.  Pedestrians have also been struck by private sanitation trucks …

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If you’re interested in gadgets and technology, you may have already heard about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall.  These smartphones feature defective batteries which can overheat and ignite while they are being charged – and they aren’t the only defective Samsung products to recently cause accidents.  Earlier this month, a six-year-old Brooklyn boy sustained …

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According to the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT), about 10% of the city’s adult residents — close to 800,000 people — say they ride a bike “at least several times a month.”  Another 544,000 say they ride a bicycle “a few times per year.”  No matter how often you like to ride, warm, …

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You’re cruising down the street on your bike in Manhattan or Brooklyn, when all of a sudden, a taxi’s rear door flings open in front of you.  There’s only a second to react, and the options are grim: slam directly into the door, or swerve and risk veering into the path of oncoming traffic.  Both …

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The Queens mass tort attorneys of Sullivan & Galleshaw are representing 120 victims who lost their homes to electrical fire damage when Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on October 29, 2012.  We are pleased to announce that a recent decision by the Second Department, Appellate Division, which determined that power companies National Grid Energy …

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