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Queens Boulevard Redesign Underway

NYC’s Vision Zero Campaign Focusing on Making this Dangerous Street Safer for Pedestrians It’s known as the “Boulevard of Death” and, historically speaking, the name is sadly appropriate. Queens Boulevard is considered one of NYC’s most dangerous roads; in the last 15 years alone, nearly 200 people have died in traffic-related accidents on it, with injury tolls stretching into the thousands. The majority of those losing their lives have been pedestrians, but bicyclists and drivers

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November 30, 2015

Sustainable Streets: NYC DOT’s Blueprint for City Transportation

2013 and Beyond, the Plan’s Most Recent Report, Outlines Progress Made on New York’s Roads In 2008, The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) published a comprehensive strategic plan. Titled Sustainable Streets, the plan outlined the department’s short- and long-term goals with regard to transportation policy for the city. Ambitious and wide-ranging, the plan was dedicated to making the streets in all five boroughs of New York safer, more navigable, more efficient, and better

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November 30, 2015

New York City Speed Camera Installation in School Zones Complete

140 Speed Cameras Installed Throughout NYC in Effort to Reduce Auto Accidents September marked the completion of an important milestone in Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero campaign: the installation of 140 speed cameras (100 fixed and 40 mobile) in school zone locations throughout New York City. The completion was timed to coincide with the start of the school year, and incorporates the maximum number of speed cameras that the State of New York allows. This initiative has

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November 13, 2015

Avoid Voice-Activation While Driving

Hands-free voice-activated technology allowing you to make calls from the road through your car’s onboard system or your connected phone has been heralded as a driving safety feature. Auto manufacturers claim that instead of fumbling with your phone at the wheel, that voice-activated systems are safer. To the contrary, new research shows that talking to your car or fiddling with your phone-even to make voice-activated calls while driving,can be a dangerous – or even deadly

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October 30, 2015

Staggering Numbers of New York City Agency Crashes

A first-of-its-kind report from New York City’s CRASH database – launched to track collisions involving government agency vehicles — reveals some surprising as well as expected findings. And experts say the figures are astonishing.Government vehicles involved in accidents across all city agencies, except the New York Police Department, totaled 5,605 in 2014, the most recent complete year of figures collected. This equates to 5% of all vehicle-related accidents in New York City and the surrounding

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October 16, 2015

Are New York Automobile Accidents on the Rise or Decreasing?

Mayor Bill de Blasio has made a big push for improved pedestrian safety on New York City streets. He introduced Vision Zero, a $100 million project to protect residents from auto accidents. Fifty major thoroughfares and intersection redesigns were completed in the first year of the initiative implemented in 2014 – creating protected bike lanes, improving major intersections, widening sidewalks and installing pedestrian “refuge medians”. In addition, the Taxi and Limousine Commission initiated its Vehicle

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September 23, 2015

YES, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS IN NEW YORK CITY ARE ON THE DECLINE…

…BUT A RECENT REPORT FROM THE NYPD CLEARLY INDICATES THAT MAKING NEW YORK CITY STREETS SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS IS A JOB THAT IS FAR FROM OVER While the pedestrian fatality rate in New York City due to motor vehicle accidents is now better than it is in many other major cities in the United States, and even as the number of injuries to pedestrians caused by motor vehicles continues a steady year-to-year decline since Mayor

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August 19, 2015

Delayed Diagnosis of Disease is Most Common Cause of Medical Malpractice…

… says Edward P. Milstein, partner in the Manhattan-based personal injury law firm of Dankner Milstein, P.C. and a top New York medical malpractice lawyer. “The most common category of medical malpractice litigation involves cases where the claim is that the defendant physician failed to diagnose a disease,” Milstein said.  “Actually, it would be more accurate to describe these cases as involving a delay in the diagnosis of a disease as opposed to a failure.  The reason being that the

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July 29, 2015

NYC COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE ISSUES REPORT SHOWING DROP IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CLAIMS IN CITY HOSPITALS

The New York City Comptroller’s Office published a report recently revealing how hospitals in the city compare with respect to the number of medical malpractice claims filed against them from 2009 to 2013.  (See chart below). While one bright spot shows an overall reduction in medical malpractice claims over the past decade, the Comptroller’s hospital-by-hospital analysis reveals that some facilities are faring better than others at reducing the number of injuries and deaths to patients caused by

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July 17, 2015

NEW REPORT REVEALS MOST COMMON CAUSES OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE IN FIVE MAJOR WORLD NATIONS

A recent study by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which examined claims of medical malpractice caused by primary care physicians in the US, the UK, Australia, France and Canada, found that missed diagnosis of heart disease and cancer were the most common causes of medical malpractice in all five countries, ranging from 26% to 63% of total cases, depending on the country being studied. Irish researchers, who reviewed more than 7,150 studies of medical malpractice claims, examined

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July 1, 2015

TOP NEW YORK MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW FIRM ACKNOWLEDGES EFFORT BY PROPUBLICA.ORG…

…TO AFFECT CHANGES IN EFFORTS BY GOVERNMENT AGENCY TO DETECT AND DETER HAZARDOUS MEDICATION PRESCRIBING PRACTICES BY DOCTORS WHO TREAT MEDICARE RECIPIENTS AND THE DISABLED Propublica.com, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, announced today that two years after the watchdog group initially reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) had “done little to detect or deter hazardous prescribing of medication to Medicare recipients and the disabled,” CMS

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June 19, 2015

The Shocking Reality of the Incidence of Medical Malpractice in the USA

By Jay W. Dankner, managing partner of the top New York medical malpractice law firm of Dankner Milstein, P.C. Medical malpractice is an ongoing problem throughout the U.S. and it doesn’t seem to be one that will be getting better any time soon. This is especially true if you look at the startling number of issues involving medical negligence in American hospitals in the past year. Despite a number of recent articles in medical industry trade journals

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June 9, 2015
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