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You were recently in an accident – that’s too bad and I’m sorry to hear that. Then you hired a very good lawyer (hopefully our firm) to fight for YOUR rights – congratulations! Now you are a plaintiff in a lawsuit – it’s time to “help your lawyer help you.” What do I...
I’ve been a lawyer for close to 30 years, mostly in the field of personal injury. I was on the ethics committee in law school, I painstakingly try to play by the rules within my profession, and I’m one of the few lawyers that handles legal malpractice cases against...
If you paid attention in high school biology, then you learned that trees keep us alive. They take in carbon dioxide and through photosynthesis produce oxygen, that sustains life on earth. For a personal injury lawyer, that is a pretty uplifting statement, right? OK,...
One of the hardest parts of my job is telling the victim of an automobile accident, or their surviving family, that the car that caused their accident doesn't have enough insurance to compensate them for their injuries/death. But with proper planning, there are ways...
Yes, you can. However, if you have read my past blogs, you'll find that one of my catchphrases is that "you should hire a lawyer with experience in the field". Nowhere is that more true than when bringing a claim against the Federal Government. They operate with a...
Most New Yorkers pound the sidewalks every day and their only worry is foot traffic. But what lurks below the sidewalks could, in some cases, be a bigger concern. I'm not talking about man-eating rats. I'm talking about "sidewalk" or "basement" vaults. You may have...
Protect Yourself from Others As a lawyer who handles personal injury lawsuits, I feel like I need to go to the roof of my office building right now and scream to people everywhere that "other than car insurance, renter's insurance is probably the most useful product...
During the last few months, the news has covered several elevator deaths in the New York area, culminating with the latest tragedy on March 5, 2021, when a man somehow became trapped underneath an elevator cab, in a Brooklyn apartment building, and was crushed to...
I was watching one of the Jason Bourne films with my kids the other day. There is a scene where Bourne’s car is pushed off a bridge, and falls 100 feet, but since he wraps the seatbelt around his arms and shoulders and splays his body across the seat, he exits with...
In 2014, the New York City "Right of Way Law" was enacted, creating Section 19-190 of the New York City Administrative Code, making it a traffic infraction for a driver to fail to yield the right of way to a pedestrian or cyclist, and a misdemeanor when it causes...
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