Most people in the Bronx live in apartments. In fact, according to our research, about 80-percent of Bronx residents rent apartments. That means there is a hazard that affects people the moment they walk into a building, whether it’s a tenement or high rise, public or privately owned: the building lobby. And it’s not only...

The people at the most risk when suffering a slip and fall accident are the elderly. This isn’t just the opinion of Feiner & Lavy, a leading Bronx personal injury firm, but is borne out by statistics and studies. The CDC tells us that there are about 36 million falls among seniors reported every year,...

A common question we hear at the law offices of Feiner & Lavy is one about the terminology used to describe an accident. “Was the fall where I was injured a slip and fall or a trip and fall?” People use the terms synonymously, but they really aren’t one and the same. And the big...