New York personal injury lawyers like me welcome this news: The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new kind of blood test that can detect concussions and identify possible brain injuries. It’s called the “Banyan Brain Trauma Indicator” (“BBTI”). The test works by measuring the levels of proteins,…
Michaels Bersani Kalabanka has several connections with the Auburn Maroons hockey team: (1) We are financial & broadcast supporters; (2) our law partner Dave Kalabanka is the father of goalie Jack Kalabanka; and (3) we love to win in Court just like the Maroons love to win on the ice!…
RIP Lavern Wilkinson Nearly three years after Kings County Hospital sent Lavern Wilkinson, a Brooklyn mom, to an early grave because of medical negligence, New York State legislators have finally revised a cruel New York State law that robbed her of her right to seek legal redress for the deadly…
Remember those old cartoons with exploding cigars? Pretty funny in a cartoon. Not so funny in real life. Today’s real-life exploding “smokes” are not the old-fashioned trick cigars, but rather the hip x-generation electronic cigarettes (a/k/a vaping devices). They may be “cool”, but when they explode in your face…
Since I am a New York personal injury lawyer, you might think I never met a personal injury case I didn’t like. Nothing could be further from the truth. I reject more injury cases than I take. One reason I reject so many is that injuries are often caused by…
As Syracuse New York personal injury lawyers, we often represent construction workers who fall from ladders and roofs when no safety line or harness is provided. In such cases, we sue the construction site owners and operators for failing to provide this essential equipment. This happens far more often than…
New York State lawmakers and Governor Cuomo just delivered New Yorkers a Christmas present. Today Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Supplementary Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist (SUM) bill, also known as the “Driver and Family Protection Act.” This important piece of legislation will protect New Yorkers statewide who are involved in…
Everyone knows you can get injured when you get into a motor vehicle, operate dangerous equipment, or climb up on a scaffold at a work site. The risk of a serious physical trauma (impact) is inherent in all those activities. I have represented countless victims of such accidents. But sometimes…
In just two days America will be reveling in “Black Monday” (like Black Friday but for online purchases). In the old days of Christmases past, when parents and others actually went to something called a “store” to choose toys for their tots, a parent could often spot for herself a…
Meet the new big bad guy in town: The prescription drug industry. Let’s just call them “Big Pharma”. They are stepping into the shoes of the previous big bad guy: Big Tobacco. In fact, Big Pharma has used the Big Tobacco playbook to rake in billions…