http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog New York Injuries Legal Blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've returned from Japan and notice other differences concerning safety besides the seat belt requirement in motor buses.  For one thing, at every construction site there was one and sometimes two men in official looking outfits that somewhat resembled police uniforms, wearing helmets, standing on the street or on the sidewalk ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/motor-vehicle-accidents/construction-work-sites-and-bicycles-in-japan/ Last week we posted a blog concerning the NYC Pedestrian Safety Study conducted by the New York City Department of Transportation.  Based on the study's findings, the DOT has made several action plan recommendations to continue to drive down pedestrian traffic fatalities and ensure New York City truly has world ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/personal-injury/plan-for-pedestrian-friendly-new-york-city-streets/ Last week we posted a blog discussing the U.S. Department of Transportation proposal requiring seat belts in buses to attempt to reduce bus accident fatalities. Coincidentally, I'm in Japan on a tour bus equipped with a seat belt. In and of itself barely noteworthy, except that as we're about to ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/personal-injury/proposed-seat-belt-requirement-old-hat-in-japan/ Motorcoaches carry 750 million passengers annually in the U.S.  An average of 19 motorcoach occupants are killed each year on U.S. roadways.  Ejections account for seventy-eight percent of the fatalities in motorcoach rollover crashes and twenty-eight percent of the fatalities in non-rollover crashes.  Wearing lap-shoulder belts on motorcoaches could reduce ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/motor-vehicle-accidents/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration-announces-proposal-to-require-seat-belts-on-all-new-motorcoaches/ In 1910, the City of New York began collecting data to determine traffic fatalities among NYC pedestrians.  Nearly a century later, in 2009, pedestrian fatalities are at its lowest rate in New York City history, down by 35% from 2001.  The New York City Department of Transportation is undertaking an ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/motor-vehicle-accidents/are-pedestrians-safe-in-the-streets-of-new-york-city-nyc%e2%80%99s-pedestrian-safety-study-says-yes/ Last summer Nassau County on Long Island initiated a red-light camera program, with cameras placed above intersections to videotape motor vehicles running red lights and making right turns on red without coming to a full stop. $50 tickets are then sent to the vehicles’ owners. In its first year the ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/motor-vehicle-accidents/10-million-later-are-the-red-light-cameras-just-raising-money-or-also-making-the-roads-safer/ They’re a staple of toddler’s birthday parties, children’s holiday parties and other seemingly carefree events. Your children take off their footwear and climb into the inflated bounce house and you’re free from worry (and perhaps bother) for a few minutes. Or are you? If the allegations in California Attorney General ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/dangerous-products/whoda-thunk-it-children%e2%80%99s-bounce-houses-contain-dangerous-lead-levels/ The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and the Chair of the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) announced that preliminary crash data from 2009 indicates a more than six percent decrease in overall traffic fatalities, a more than seventeen percent decrease in motorcycle fatalities and a more than ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/motor-vehicle-accidents/preliminary-2009-highway-fatality-data-in-new-york-shows-decrease-in-overall-traffic-fatalities-with-significant-reductions-in-motorcycle-and-bicycle-fatalities/ Devadas v. Niksarli, Index #: 107637/07, is an action for medical malpractice and lack of informed consent with respect to LASIK eye surgery. It was alleged that the defendant departed from the accepted standard of care for refractive surgeons inasmuch as the eye surgery was contraindicated in that at the ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/medical-malpractice/do-you-agree-that-3000000-00-is-not-an-excessive-jury-award-for-pain-and-suffering-for-serious-impairment-but-not-loss-of-vision-following-lasik-eye-surgery/ New York Governor David A. Paterson announced on July 8, 2010, the launch of a new State website on Federal health care reform.  Several reforms take effect this summer, including a temporary high risk pool for people with medical conditions that are expensive to treat, an early retiree reinsurance program ... http://www.newyorkinjuries.com/blog/medical-malpractice/governor-paterson-announces-new-state-website-on-federal-health-care-reform-and-implementation/