Three dozen people were charged with scheming to defraud automobile insurers out of more than $279 million in accident benefits, in a scheme said to involve doctors, lawyers and patients who were coached to fake injuries. Federal and New York …
A construction crane owner whose rig collapsed and killed two workers is facing the only criminal trial stemming from the disaster, with prosecutors saying he pinched pennies on a crucial repair while he suggests workers’ mistakes caused the collapse. Opening …
New York City will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of people charged with loitering years after the laws were declared unconstitutional. The Wall Street Journal reports that the original eight plaintiffs will receive …
A judge has thrown out a New Jersey man’s lawsuit against a Greenwich Village pub over injuries he suffered following a beer pong game. The judge found Alan Berger voluntarily signed up for the beer-drinking game and couldn’t sue Wicked …
A New York City lawyer has been suspended for six months for trying to get out of a speeding ticket by falsely claiming that a New Jersey trooper hurled an anti-Semitic slur during the traffic stop. The New York Post …
New York City school bus drivers say that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s warning that they might strike any day was a false alarm. The drivers’ union issued a letter to parents Tuesday saying drivers wouldn’t strike during the holiday season. Union …
New York City is using poetry to try to boost traffic safety. City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a new safety campaign Tuesday called Curbside Haiku. Colorful 8-inch square signs featuring haiku are being installed at high-crash locations near cultural …
A lawyer says there’s no such thing as the free breakfast promised by a high-end New York City health club, and he says he should get more than $200,000 for the missing meals. Richard Katz says in a fraud suit …
An engineer says shoddy materials and construction techniques caused a fatal collapse at a building site in Brooklyn last week. Steve Schneider tells The Daily News that the contractor was using lighter gauge steel than required for the floor decking …
Hurricane Irene is likely to cause more insured losses in the Bahamas than 1999’s devastating Hurricane Floyd, catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide said Thursday, even as the storm increasingly tracks toward a weekend landfall in the greater New York City area. …