Safety experts tell us that advances in auto safety technologies over the last decade are working. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says these driver safety features are saving lives by preventing some fatal and serious car accidents...
Can I hold a bad lawyer accountable for their actions?
When you have a legal issue that requires a lawyer, you expect him or her to provide a high quality of service focused on protecting your interests. However, some lawyers fail to meet that standard, which only makes your situation worse. If this has happened to you,...
Workers’ Compensation Benefits May Not Be Your Only Remedy If Injured On The Job
Workers' Compensation protects both employer and employee Workers’ compensation insurance is a type of business insurance, paid for by employers, which provides benefits to employees who suffer work-related injuries or illnesses. The insurance helps pay injured...
8 Dead at Houston’s Astroworld Concert: Not the First, and it Won’t be the Last
When You See Things from a Lawyer’s Perspective, These Unfortunate Accidents are Predictable When one enters law school, you are told that “the education will teach you to think differently.” In time, you learn what this means: That lawyers are taught to think with...
The Pizza Delivery Guy Just Hit Me With His Bicycle – What Are My Rights?
Pizza Guy v. Pedestrian For years, as we tried to get from point A to point B in our New York City streets, we were forced to face our arch-enemy, the pizza delivery guy. (I know he also delivered Mexican and Chinese food, but you knew who I was talking about.) These...
New York’s Mental Health Laws and the Justice System that Acts as an Enabler
I was recently contacted by a woman who was assaulted on an “A” train on July 5, 2021, and had her nose broken, by mentally ill, Anthonia Egegbara, age 29. The District Attorney opted to prosecute the assailant with third-degree assault, one of many crimes that judges...
Mayor de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” program to stop fatalities is more like a “Zero Vision” program
Sometime in 2014, at the beginning of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s two terms, he claimed traffic accidents had gotten out of hand (they hadn’t), and he pledged to bring road deaths in New York City down to zero by 2024, “through engineering, enforcement, and...
Did Your Lawyer Commit Legal Malpractice? Don’t Make it Worse!
In late spring, a prospective client reached out to me with a legal malpractice case. He was hit by a Transit bus and had four surgeries. His lawyer, who specialized in Elder Law matters, and not negligence, thought he had 3 years to bring a lawsuit, but didn’t know...
Suburban House Parties and Clueless Parents
In full disclosure, I am a suburban parent with two high school students living in my house, so for this blog I will generally tend to be more knowledgeable than usual. To set the tone, let me also advise that I live in a sleepy little beach town, where word of a...
This Personal Injury Lawyer Says The Big Baby Suing Nirvana Lawsuit Is A Joke
History of Nirvana In 1991 an alternative rock band named Nirvana, with their charismatic lead singer, Kurt Cobain, sprung to fame with the release of their second album “Nevermind”, featuring a naked baby swimming (with his penis exposed) toward a dollar bill on a...