The Blame Game

Jonathan R. Ratchik
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The Blame Game

Accidents are an unavoidable fact of life. Or are they? This podcast discusses current events through a personal injury lawyer’s perspective. In each episode, your host, Jonathan R. Ratchik Esq, will focus on one such event and attempt to answer one oftentimes not-so-simple question: “Who’s to blame?”

  1. Putting the POW back in Powder

    03/28/2023

    Putting the POW back in Powder

    On February 26, 2016, Terry Sanderson, an optometrist in his late 60s and an experienced skier, was skiing at Deer Valley Resort in Utah when he claims his life changed forever after Gwyneth Paltrow, an Academy Award-winning actress, crashed into him. In the personal injury lawsuit he filed against Ms. Paltrow and the Deer Valley Resort Company (and which is on trial at the time of this broadcast), Mr. Sanderson is claiming to have suffered a traumatic brain injury, multiple broken ribs...

    6 min
  2. Man's Best Friend?

    10/31/2022

    Man's Best Friend?

    On October 2, 2022, a 13-year-old girl was walking home from school on Staten Island when she was suddenly and viciously attacked by a group of pit bulls which had escaped from an open window in their owners’ home. The pit bulls also attacked a 2-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman. Sadly, these types of attacks are not isolated incidents, either in New York City or elsewhere. According to the insurance industry, there were almost 18,000 dog-bite claims filed in the United...

    5 min
  3. Supermarket Slaughter

    06/07/2022

    Supermarket Slaughter

    On the afternoon of May 14th, Payton Gendron, eighteen years old and a self-proclaimed white supremacist, arrived outside a Tops Supermarket located in Buffalo, New York. Armed with an AR-15 type rifle, Gendron began firing off rounds in the parking lot, fatally shooting three shoppers. He then entered the grocery store where his killing spree continued. When all was said and done, Gendron had murdered 10 people and injured three others. Almost all of the victims were ...

    22 min
  4. Bronx Inferno

    01/11/2022

    Bronx Inferno

    In the late morning hours of Saturday, January 8, 2022, a five-alarm fire broke out in the Twin Parks North West apartment complex in the Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx. Caused by a malfunctioning electric space heater, smoke from the fire spread throughout the 19-story high-rise after the door to the apartment in which the fire started was left open. When all was said and done, nineteen residents lost their lives, including nine children, making this New York City’s deadliest ...

    8 min
  5. Cold Gun!

    11/10/2021

    Cold Gun!

    On October 21st, an acclaimed cinematographer, 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins, was fatally shot by Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust. Just prior to the shooting, the film’s assistant director, Dave Halls, grabbed the gun from among three that the film’s armorer had set up on a nearby tray. After yelling “Cold Gun!”, film jargon which is supposed to mean that the gun did not contain any live ammunition, Mr. Halls handed the gun to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin was rehea...

    26 min
  6. Flood and Fury

    10/01/2021

    Flood and Fury

    On September 1, 2021, the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which had just pummeled Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane several days earlier, swept through New York City. In a matter of hours, more than half a foot of rain inundated the five boroughs. Easily overwhelming the City’s sewer system, Ida turned streets and subways into raging rivers and flooded homes throughout the region. When all was said and done, more than forty people lost their lives in New York and New Jersey, in...

    6 min
  7. Champlain Towers Collapse - Part II

    07/15/2021

    Champlain Towers Collapse - Part II

    On the morning of June 24, 2021, Champlain Tower South, a 13-story oceanfront condominium in south Florida, collapsed. So far, rescue crews working around the clock have recovered 97 bodies from the rubble. At least a dozen residents still remain unaccounted for as recovery efforts continue.In the last episode of The Blame Game, we spoke with an architect to discuss why this unspeakable tragedy occurred and who, if anyone, was to blame, such as the structural engineer who had foun...

    17 min
  8. Champlain Towers Collapse

    07/07/2021

    Champlain Towers Collapse

    In the early morning of June 24, 2021, Champlain Towers South, a 13-story condominium in Surfside Florida, collapsed without warning. For the past two weeks, rescue crews have been frantically searching through the rubble in search of survivors. As of this broadcast, 46 residents have been confirmed dead with close to 100 still being reported as missing.Significantly, years before the collapse, a structural engineer had warned the condominium's board that the building was sufferi...

    20 min
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Accidents are an unavoidable fact of life. Or are they? This podcast discusses current events through a personal injury lawyer’s perspective. In each episode, your host, Jonathan R. Ratchik Esq, will focus on one such event and attempt to answer one oftentimes not-so-simple question: “Who’s to blame?”

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  • Creator
    Jonathan R. Ratchik
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2023
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2023 The Blame Game
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