A recent hit-and-run driver case in the Geneva NY area has some people wondering whether a downed cyclist or pedestrian will get more insurance compensation if the guilty hit-and-run driver is caught. The answer is probably not. Why? First, in my experience representing Central New bicyclists and pedestrians in hit-and-run…
The other day I blogged about a car-on-bicycle collision in the Gorham-Rushville NY area. A hit-and-run driver knocked Kevin Royston, an avid cyclists, off his bike and into a ditch where a passing motorist spotted him and called for help. His leg, broken in four places, has now been partially…
Just read in the Finger Lakes times that a bicyclist was rear-ended on Townline Road in Gorham, Ontario County yesterday evening. The at-fault driver sped off and left the cyclist down and injured. Unacceptable! What a jerk! Deputies are asking anyone with information to call the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office…
I read this article in the Syracuse Post Standard the other day about how no-fault insurance regulators plan to start “kicking crooked doctors out of New York’s no-fault program“, referring to such doctors as “linchpins in fake-accident scams that cost insurers and policyholders hundreds of millions of dollars”. As a…
Last Sunday a van careered across several lanes of traffic on a highway overpass on the Bronx River Parkway before plunging off the side of the road and landing, upside down, in the Bronx Zoo, where all seven occupants, including three children, met their death. Yes, the van driver was…
Last week in Auburn, NY, on Lake Avenue, not too far from the New York personal injury and auto accident law firm of Michaels Bersani Kalabanka, P.C., a 24-year old driver had a seizure and crashed his car into a house porch. No one, except the driver, was injured, but…
Having trouble finding a New Year’s resolution? Let me help. Forget about losing weight. Been there done that — or not!. That commitment usually lasts for only a few weeks. Here’s one you might be able to stick with, and that could save your life: Promise yourself that, beginning January…
Yesterday, about one hundred tow-truck drivers formed a procession on East Molloy Road in Mattydale during the funeral of their brother tow-trucker, Todd Young, who was killed when a tractor trailer careened into him as he was attending to a broken down vehicle on the shoulder of the Thruway in…
Thanksgiving is this Central New York injury lawyer’s favorite holiday. Why? Because I love good food, and good company, but don’t like the complicated and expensive business of gift giving. Although Thanksgiving is a holiday, unfortunately, it is not a holiday from accidents. In fact, there are more accidents on…
News reports say that a driver carrying 3 passengers in Sennett crashed after swerving to avoid a deer. A 27-year-old Auburn female passenger was killed and four others were injured in the collision. The car struck a culvert, rolled over several times, and ejected three of the passengers. It seems…