New York, NY (Business Wire) 10 October 2010

As summer gives way to autumn in New York City residents might be tempted to leave their windows open for a final wind in her apartment to catch, before the winter can be cold in

However, if you leave your windows open, make sure you properly installed window guards in place, especially if you have small children who live in your apartment, “said Manhattan personal injury attorney David Resnick.

Resnick fall points to two incidents this summer with children through open windows in Brooklyn and the Bronx, which hit around the dangerous consequences of tenants and owners to take to take precautions.

â? If you live children under 10 in your apartment, you are required under New York law, must ensure the guards on your windows and your home owner that the guards are in appropriate Instead you have? Resnick said. â? The goal of this law is to prevent these tragic accidents. Itâ? Why ATI? S important to the owner a notice of the need guards.â Window> ????

NYC Window Guard Law was created in 1976 when 217 windows will have been reported in the city. Although the law has dramatically improved the security window, there were up to 13 children who fell from windows in New York City in 2009, including four who died after Newsweekly.com Times.

â? A child in a fall from a window of injured is one too many, as had been the case easily by appropriate steps to put up a fence, â can be avoided? Resnick said, adding that a landlord? s not install correctly and quickly the device window negligence and premises liability for damage they caused.


NYC Law

Guards to provide owners of buildings with three or more dwellings and install window guards properly on all Windows, including Windows and windows on a balcony in an apartment hallway, where a child 10 or younger living in old age .

apartment owners are legally obliged to send messages to the tenants guards on windows that must be completed and returned by tenants.

Even if you do not have children under 10 in your apartment, you can request window guards if you:


A grandparent, child, to visit your apartment has;
A parent who has custody of a child or has intermittent
A caregiver of the child.

When the owner refused to install the guards, it seems that the guards are not installed properly or not, or is there more than 4.5 inch opening is accessible, open the windows, the residents have a complaint by phone 311-file, according to the New York window falls prevention program.


About David Resnick

& Associates, PC

David Resnick & Associates, PC cause a highly respected New York law firm injury. The company makes slip and fall cases, premises liability cases, traffic accidents, accidents and other pedestrian injury claims in New York’s five boroughs Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Iceland and the Bronx. For more information or a free consultation without obligation case, call (212) 279-2000 or use the company? S-line form.

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