Kids love to play in water. Whether it’s your toddler splashing with duckies in the bathtub, your pre-teen playing incessant Marco Polo games with his or her buddies, or your teenager showing off a spectacular dive for an admiring girlfriend or boyfriend, kids and water go together like the proverbial peanut butter and jelly. Unfortunately,
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Last week I talked about asbestos, that insidious substance that threatens the health and lives of New York construction workers. This week I want to talk about two of the most common and deadly diseases that workers develop when they inhale microscopic asbestos fibers over long periods of time at work: mesothelioma and asbestosis. Mesothelioma
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As a New York construction worker, you likely are exposed to asbestos on a daily basis, whether you realize it or not. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral found in many construction and consumer products due to its excellent insulating properties and resistance to fire. The problem with asbestos, however, is that it breaks down
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Last week I discussed the serious injury threshold under New York’s no fault insurance law and how difficult it can be for you to meet that threshold if you suffer a soft tissue injury in a motor vehicle accident and wish to sue the negligent person who caused your accident. This week I want to delve
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New York has a unique law that comes into play when you are injured in a vehicle accident caused by the negligence of someone else. Per Section 5104(a) and (b) of the Insurance Law, in order to sue the person responsible for your injuries, you must be able to establish that you incurred a “basic
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You know the symptoms. You cough, you sneeze, your eyes water, you sometimes feel dizzy, your chest feels tight and your muscles ache every time you go to work. You may have attributed these symptoms to your allergies or even to your heavy workload and the stress it causes you, but have you ever considered
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On any given weekday, 2.38 million New Yorkers ride a city bus. According to Metropolitan Transportation Authority data, the vast majority of them, 1,997,302, are passengers on one of the MTA’s five local routes serving Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. An additional 40,817 are passengers on one of the MTA express routes.
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When someone sets up a trust for the benefit of others, or his or her own benefit, (s)he appoints a trustee to manage the trust assets and disburse them to the beneficiaries according to the provisions of the trust. The trustee therefore is in a fiduciary relationship with the beneficiaries; that is, (s)he holds and
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Whether you are building a private residence, an apartment complex, an office high-rise, a retail or industrial complex, or any other type of construction project, choosing your architect is one of the most important choices you must make. (S)he will be responsible not only for the design of your building(s), but also its or their
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In this final installment of how DubiLaw has established itself as “Trial Counsel to The Profession,” I want to focus on pedestrians and the dangers they face while walking or jogging in New York, particularly their risk of being struck by a vehicle. In New York City, the statistics are particularly alarming: Between 2012 and
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