As a Syracuse and Central New York accident lawyer, I have had loads of experience dealing with car insurance companies and their lawyers. Here’s another example of how insurance companies and their lawyers take frivolous positions in Court that cost you, the taxpayer, money. My client hired me to bring…
It’s to be expected. With the good weather comes bicycling, and with bicycling comes bike accidents. Today Syracuse police are investigating an accident at the intersection of Sumner and Euclid avenues (not far from where I grew up!) between a bicyclist and, of all people, a Syracuse City cop driving…
I recently blogged about an upcoming federally funded crackdown on cell-phoning and texting while driving that was to take place in Syracuse. Well, the first stage of the crackdown happened, and many motorists were caught in the police net. The Syracuse Post Standard reports that local law enforcement agents issued…
So what do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news? The good news came out just the other day from the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) about Motorcycle deaths in Central New York and, in fact, all over the nation. For more than a…
The other day a fellow Central New York injury lawyer congratulated me on a recent Court victory I had, which changed the law throughout New York State, and helped him, and other New York personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers, better represent their clients. The case he was referring to…
It’s no secret that cell-phoning and texting while driving cause many car accidents in Syracuse, New York (and elsewhere). Just read any newspaper; many Syracuse and Central New York auto crash injuries are caused by cell-phone use and texting. But would an aggressive cell-phone driver crackdown by police help cure…
I blogged yesterday about a horrendous New York State Thruway accident near Manchester, New York injuring 17 people, most of them children. Here’s a brief recap: A dump truck driver tried to drive under the County Route 7 overpass with his truck box raised, causing the top of the truck…
When I read about the terrible New York State Thruway multi-vehicle accident at 5:00 a.m. this morning in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, near my home in Geneva, New York, the human injury toll shocked and saddened me. Here’s how it happened: A dump truck driver, who was performing some…
In my last post, I neglected to note another Central New York motorcycle accident his weekend. A Madison County motorcyclist was killed in the evening of April 3 at about 6:30 when he crashed on Gorge Road, part of Route 13, in Cazenovia,. He failed to handle a curve, crossed…
Wow. What a bad weekend for motor vehicle collisions this beautiful Easter weekend in Central New York State. First, in the morning of April 3, a Yates County New York car driver died, and his passenger, an Oswego county New York man, was seriously injured, when their vehicle drifted off…