Published March 9, 2013, 5:00 a.m. ET by the New York Post
The family of the boy struck and killed by a truck on his way to an East Harlem elementary school plans to sue the city and the crossing guard who wasn’t at her post for $50 million, The Post has learned.
A “notice of claim” was filed with the Comptroller’s Office on Thursday on behalf of Issouf Diarrassouba, 9, who was accompanying his 6-year-old brother, Amar, across First Avenue at East 117th Street on Feb. 28 when the smaller child was fatally sideswiped by a tractor trailer leaving a nearby shopping mall.
[...] Daniel Kim, the family’s lawyer, told The Post it was “shocking” she could have gone AWOL without anyone in authority noticing. “She lied that she was on a bathroom break,” he said...
Park Soon-eop (67, Ansan, Gyeonggi Province), who lost her husband in the Korean Air (KAL) Guam crash nine months ago, held a press conference at attorney Kim Dong-min's office in Manhattan on April 3. This came after the possibility of filing a lawsuit in U.S. courts arose when the first accident hearing on March 25 suggested that...
"If I had at least seen the body, I could have held it and cried my heart out."
These are the tearful words of Kim Young-ran (44, Brooklyn resident), who lost her father in the Korean Air (KAL) plane crash in Guam on August 6th of last year.
Even after nearly eight months since the accident, the grief of the bereaved families remains unresolved...
The bereaved family of the late Kim Gap-byeong (72 at the time), one of the victims of the Korean Air Guam crash, held a press conference on April 3 in Manhattan. They announced their intention to hold the U.S. government accountable for negligence in air traffic control and delays in rescue operations.
Kim's widow, Park Soon-eop (67, Ansan, Gyeonggi Province), and their second daughter, Kim Young-ran (44, Brooklyn resident), stated...
At 1:42 a.m. on August 6, 1997, Korean Air flight 801, a Boeing 747, departed from Seoul and crashed in the hills near Nimitz Hill in Guam. Of the 254 passengers onboard, 23 were crew members, 255 were adults, 3 were children, and 3 were infants. Among them, 15 were U.S. citizens. The plane broke into four pieces upon impact.
Most of the Korean passengers were round-trip travelers returning to Korea. As a result, under the Warsaw Convention, lawsuits against Korean Air in the U.S. must be carefully considered...
