New York City Personal Injury Blog

News that you may be using a recalled product might immediately cause you to panic. The common school of thought amongst many in New York may be that products are only recalled if they are extremely dangerous. Thus, using one automatically puts you and your family in great danger, too. While this may be the case with certain products, oftentimes an item may be recalled for a relatively mundane or minor issue. When it comes to the potential of facing liability due to the use of their products, manufacturers will often err on the side of caution in order to reduce the possibility of facing litigation. 

So how are you to know how dangerous the recalled product in your possession truly is? If it is a food or drug product, you can consult the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's product recall classifications. These indicate the risk that recalled products pose. Their breakdown is as follows: 

• Class I: The recalled product has been identified as defective and/or dangerous, and its continued use could result in serious health complications or even death
• Class II: The recalled product presents a risk of minor illness or injury whose effects are likely to be temporary (cases involving serious complications would be rare)
• Class III: The recalled product violates FDA labeling or manufacturing laws

The pressure to perform well at work is very real. Yet while you might feel it in your job, you may not automatically assign it to other professions in New York. Yet practitioners in all fields (including jobs that impact you both directly and indirectly) often feel compelled to do all that they can to please their employers (even pushing themselves and their resources beyond reasonable safety limits). 

Take truck drivers, for example. Their performance is gauged on their ability to be reliable in the completion of their routes. Part of that is making deliveries in a timely manner. Sometimes speeding may be required to do that. Yet when a speeding truck driver hits you, then you may justly want to know why they would engage in such an action. Semi-trucks are already difficult enough to control due to their massive size; throwing excessive speed into the mix may only make them more dangerous. 

You and a few girlfriends decide to go out for a night of food, dancing and a few drinks. However, throughout the night, other patrons will not stop sexually harassing you.

Many women have experienced sexual harassment in New York City’s bars and nightclubs. You may feel that you are powerless against it, even if you are in an otherwise safe venue that you trust. To combat sexual harassment in New York City’s nightlife, the City Council is considering a new measure that would put the impetus on venues to prevent sexual harassment.

School bus drivers in New York have a pressing responsibility to protect the children they are in charge of getting to and from school each day. While each is required to undergo a background check and considerable training to guarantee that they understand their responsibilities, other motorists must also be paying attention to make sure that the children aboard the bus stay safe. 

A recent increase in accidents involving the school bus fleet in Sussex County, Delaware is beginning to concern bus drivers who feel that distracted or reckless motorists are inhibiting their ability to safely transport the children who they are responsible for. Statistical results from a survey conducted in May of this year has corroborated the drivers' concerns by showing that of 1,108 drivers who were observed driving around a school bus, there were a disturbing 572 incidents where a vehicle illegally passed a school bus. One concerned driver said that he knew of eight buses that were recently involved in accidents, of which other drivers caused six.