If you are capable after a car crash, there are steps you can take to protect your rights to compensation—and ensure that you can defend yourself if the other driver blames you for their injury.
Your priority after suffering a personal injury is to get good medical care and to heal. In order to make a claim for compensation for your injury, it is also important to make sure you can provide information about your injury and medical treatment to your attorney.
If you or a loved one suffers a personal injury in New York, you would be surprised how much your actions after the accident can influence the compensation you may be awarded.
When you suffer an injury due to the negligence of others, you may have a claim for compensation based on how much you and the other people involved in the event contributed to your injury.
Although your injury may have been caused by a negligent party, you can damage your opportunity to receive fair compensation if you do not follow your doctor’s orders. It seems like a claim for personal injury should be pretty straightforward. According to the State of New York, more than 12,000 hospitalizations occur each year following…
If you have been injured in an accident, you may need to go through some form of rehabilitation and physical therapy—on top of the medical attention you receive. You should always follow the advice of your doctor or therapist when it comes to finding relief from the chronic pain you experience. However, there are a…
Determining liability can be a challenge in any car accident-related injury claim, especially if the at-fault driver was operating a company car. In most cases, the employer will be liable for the accident—with some exceptions. The two main ways an employer can be held liable for an auto accident caused by a company driver are…
Most people involved in a personal injury claim have never experienced the process before, and as such, they are naturally unfamiliar with the way the legal system works related to such cases. It comes as little surprise that misconceptions and misinformation abound. Below are a few of the most common myths associated with personal injury…
While drunk and drugged driving remain key concerns on a national level, another form of impaired driving has entered the picture as a major concern for people throughout the United States, and especially in New York: distracted driving. In 2015, the most recent year for which there is complete information available, 3,477 people were killed…
The state of New York has had problems with crumbling infrastructure in recent years, with roads, tunnels, bridges and pipelines all in bad need of repair and revamping. Governor Andrew Cuomo recently stated that 60 percent of the state’s roads and about 6,000 of its bridges are in need of repair. Few locations are a…
There is a general assumption in the law that children do not have the same ability as adults to make reasonable judgments and decisions in certain scenarios. To that end, personal injury claims involving children do not always proceed in the same way as those involving adults only. Below is some information about how personal…