Month: July 2017

A recent report shows that Staten Island ranks first among New York’s five boroughs in dog bites per capita. In 2014, every 64 out of 100,000 residents of Staten Island were bitten by dogs, contributing to 6,373 trips to the emergency-room throughout the City. These emergency-room visits costed New Yorkers on average almost $3,000 per visit…

On the last day of the regular legislative session this year, both the New York State Assembly and Senate passed a bill that would help victims of cancer misdiagnoses hold negligent doctors and hospitals accountable.  The legislation is a version of what has been called “Lavern’s Law”, after Lavern Wilkinson. Tragically, Ms. Wilkinson died in 2013 from…