A law firm filed a lawsuit Aug. 20 against a New York City hospital’s construction company, alleging the company failed to treat bacteria-infected water in its cooling towers, leading to a ...

Rainwater left untreated in cooling towers atop city-owned Harlem Hospital fueled the Big Apple’s deadliest Legionnaire’s ...

Victims of the deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak gripping Harlem will sue the Big Apple for allegedly letting bacteria ...

A 2015 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, traced to a cooling tower at a hotel, forced New York City to address a problem ...

About one in 10 people who get sick from Legionnaires' disease die from the disease due to complications from illness, CDC ...

HealthDay News — A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem has now caused four deaths and sickened 101 people, New York City health officials confirmed. The bacteria that cause the illness, ...

Two construction workers who claim they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working at or near Harlem Hospital Center are ...

The deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak gripping Harlem has city officials in hot water — as locals accused them Friday of dropping ...

Both lawsuits claim construction companies failed to protect workers from unsafe conditions that led to the spread of the ...

A new lawsuit is accusing a construction company of neglecting to clean stormwater from the cooling towers behind the deadly ...

An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York was "completely preventable," civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.

The New York City Health Department has reported five deaths and 108 confirmed cases of legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia, since the outbreak in Harlem was identified on 25 July. It seems to ...