Results tagged “wrongfuldeath”

It's been just over two years since Linda Stein was murdered in her apartment on the Upper East Side. Her assistant Natavia Lowery was charged with the crime and has been in custody since—and now Stein's two daughters are suing Prudential Douglas Elliman brokerage for hiring her in the first place.

The family of the Queens high school administrator who was the city's first swine flu-related fatality has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city. The Daily News reports the suit alleges the city failed to provide "accurate information about the flu" to I.S. 238 Assistant Principal Mitchell Wiener in a timely way, even as people in the school system were testing positive for the H1N1 virus back in May.

Rachel Aiello, the widow of the ex-NYPD officer Jason Aiello, who was fatally shot in a shootout ruled "suicide by cop" this summer, is preparing to file a wrongful death suit against the city. The Advance reports that a successful motion to preserve 911 tapes of the incident filed by her lawyer last month stated, "[Aiello] was armed, but there was ample opportunity to disarm him without the use of deadly force." Police responded after Aiello had escaped from a psychiatric facility where he was being treated for bipolar disorder. There were immediate tensions between the family and the NYPD following the shooting with claims by the Aiellos that Rachel was holding the weapons that previously had been in her husband's possession and that Jason had never even fired at the cops. Both officers involved with the shooting are expected to go through the standard grand jury proceedings.

Phoenix prosecutors will not prosecute police officers who arrested NYC resident Carol Gotbaum at Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport last year. Gotbaum was on her way to an alcohol rehab center and became so agitated and disruptive during her stopover in Phoenix that the airport police took her into custody. Hours later, she was found dead in her holding cell, with her chain wrapped around her neck. Her family, including stepmother-in-law and NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, had questioned the police's handling, while the police and city of Phoenix said they didn't know was emotionally fragile. The Gotbaums filed an $8 million notice of claim against Phoenix, for its "excessive and unreasonable force on Carol, as if she was a dangerous criminal, rather than as the sick, intoxicated and vulnerable person she was."