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On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 30, 2017 | Personal Injury
New York City is the second most dangerous city in the U.S. for bicyclists, according to a recent study, and the most dangerous cities have a fatality rate six times higher than the safest. That fatality rate appears to be closely tied to lack of infrastructure...
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 28, 2017 | Construction Accidents
America's construction injury is booming. The rate of construction in the U.S. is at an all-time high. That's great news for people in the industry, but it's important to remember that more projects also means more injuries, even if every project were run with safety...
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 24, 2017 | Wrongful Convictions
Wrongful convictions are a serious problem in our current criminal justice system. In fact, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, there have been more than 2,000 exonerations since 1989 in the U.S. -- with 248 in New York alone. While there are many...
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 22, 2017 | Construction Accidents
According to authorities, a 22-year-old construction worker died last Friday after falling down an elevator shaft at a Manhattan construction site -- making it the most recent construction fatality in a long string of incidents stretching back over the last few years....
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 21, 2017 | Personal Injury
The National Safety Council, a nonprofit that has tracked traffic injury and fatality trends for nearly 100 years, has released its preliminary numbers for the first half of 2017. There's good news and there's bad news.The good news is that the group observed about a...
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 15, 2017 | Wrongful Convictions
Sadly, the criminal justice system in New York is far from perfect. In fact, we often hear of cases in which innocent individuals are convicted and sent to prison, only to be freed years later when it is learned that they were victims of wrongful convictions. While...
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 14, 2017 | Wrongful Convictions
In a bid to reduce the number of people who pass through city jails and criminal courts on minor charges, the district attorneys of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan have moved to dismiss 644,494 warrants. These warrants were issued over the past 10 years for...
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 11, 2017 | Personal Injury
Have you been paying attention to the streets in New York City lately? If so, you have probably noticed more bike riders than ever before. In fact, according to a recent report by The New York Times, city officials estimate that there are more than 450,000 bike trips...
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Aug 4, 2017 | Construction Accidents
A 2013 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll asked older American workers -- those between about 55 and 70 -- about their job duties. A full 44 percent reported that their jobs required physical effort either "most of the time" or "almost all...
