When you go to work every day, you don’t expect to be seriously injured. However, there’s always a chance of getting hurt, especially in higher-risk fields. Work injuries have the potential to disrupt your life for months or years to come; you may be left unable to earn a living and experience life-limiting symptoms. It […]
Any time you get behind the wheel, there’s a risk of getting in a car accident. As you may already know, that risk is particularly high at intersections, and the NYC mayor wants to reduce car accident fatalities at New York intersections. At the end of 2023, NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city […]
When you’re traveling through the city on foot, you count on crosswalks to keep you safe. Whether there’s a pedestrian signal in place or not, a crosswalk is there to tell drivers to give you the right of way. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way. If you’ve suffered a car accident as a pedestrian, […]
Being involved in a car accident is a highly stressful experience. However, if you can keep your wits about you during the difficult minutes, hours, and days after a crash, there are many steps you can take that will greatly improve your odds of filing a successful insurance claim or lawsuit in relation to the […]
Sharing the road in a bustling city like New York can be extremely stressful, and this means that aggressive driving tactics, such as brake checking, tend to be more common in these areas. However, this reckless maneuver can have devastating consequences, causing crashes that leave victims with injuries and significant car damage. As this blog […]
Driving can be a stressful task at the best of times, and many find it particularly taxing in high-traffic areas or under tight schedules. Some people get into the habit of responding to this stress by driving aggressively. While this is understandable, it’s also dangerous. It’s important to be able to identify the impulse to […]
There’s good news for injured New York workers — the New York workers’ compensation minimum weekly payments increased at the end of 2023. The new increase means that workers injured on the job in New York qualify for higher weekly workers’ comp payments. However, all New York workers should understand what the process of recovering […]
Amazon is under fire for new reports about the high worker injury rate in its New York warehouses. In late 2023, several news outlets released headlines like “New York City Amazon Warehouse Workers Injured at Higher Rate Than Other Companies.” While representatives for the e-commerce giant claim to be working hard to reduce the rate […]
What is the workers’ compensation claims process like in New York? If you’ve sustained an illness or injury due to your activities at work in the state of New York, you should be entitled to workers’ compensation payments to replace lost income and other expenses. Unfortunately, however, the process involved in applying for these benefits […]
Construction work is omnipresent throughout New York City. Stand at almost any intersection and you can probably see construction workers in at least one direction. Unsurprisingly, with all this construction going on, worker injuries are also relatively common. But what causes these injuries, and are construction workers often injured due to poor safety practices? Unfortunately, […]