Accidents

Fear keeps more injured workers silent than any legal rule does. A worker falls from a ladder in Elmhurst, gets driven home instead of to a hospital, and never reports it, because someone on the crew said a claim would put him on a list. That advice is wrong, and in New York it has […]

Injured workers are handed numbers from every direction, usually by people with something to sell. The honest picture comes from two public sources: New York’s workers’ compensation schedule, which sets fixed dollar values for the loss of a body part, and the written decisions in which appellate courts approved or reduced real jury awards. Neither

Riders assume that a Lyft crash means Lyft’s insurance pays, and in most of New York State that is roughly true. Inside the five boroughs the structure is different, and the difference is measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Which tier of coverage was active, and where the trip started, decides how many dollars

A Target, Walmart, or Costco slip and fall in New York looks different from a small store fall from the moment the case begins. National retailers have in-house risk management arms, standardized cleaning protocols, retention policies for surveillance video, and defense counsel who process hundreds of these cases a year. That structure creates both hurdles

Surgical malpractice in New York often begins in the operating room and ends in a second procedure to correct what should never have happened in the first place. From retained gauze that shows up on a post-operative CT (computed tomography) scan to wrong-site surgery that removes the wrong body part, these errors are usually preventable

A failure to diagnose cancer in New York can shift a treatable early-stage disease into an advanced one, and the difference between catching it in time and missing the window often comes down to whether the doctor followed the accepted standard of care.  When a missed or delayed cancer diagnosis harms a patient, state law

Falling on a wet lobby floor in Elmhurst or slipping on a broken stair in a Bronx walk-up can leave a tenant with real injuries and a difficult question: who is responsible when the building itself was poorly maintained? In New York, private landlords have specific duties under state and city law to keep common

Slipping on a wet floor at a Queens supermarket or a Manhattan restaurant can leave a customer with real injuries and a legal question that decides the whole case: did the store know about the hazard, and if not, should it have known? That question is where the doctrine of constructive notice comes in, and

When a loved one dies because of someone else’s negligence in New York, the family often has two separate legal claims available under state law, not one. Each recovers a different kind of loss, has its own deadline, and is filed under a different statute.  Understanding how these two causes of action work together can

Most cyclists hit by a car in New York assume the worst: unpayable medical bills and no coverage because they don’t own a vehicle. The reality is very different — and largely unknown, even to people who have already been through an accident. There is a form of coverage that can pay up to $50,000