This is the first o a five-part blog series about the pitfalls of trying to settle your own New York personal injury claim without a lawyer. I don’t recommend that anyone actually do this, without at least first consulting with a New York personal injury lawyer. In rare cases, I…
When folks find out I am a New York personal injury lawyer, it doesn’t take them long to ask me, usually with a snide grin on their face, about the McDonald’s case. The undercurrent of the question, no matter how it is posed, is something like this: “You scumbag personal…
Your favorite (we hope) Central New York personal injury lawyers are moving! Not far. A stone’s throw — well maybe a sling shot — away. Our new address is 17 East Genesee Street in Auburn. We’re on the fourth floor, but there’s an elevator. Starting Monday, June 13, that’s where…
When I read the story this morning about a Pulaski ATV operator who was killed when his neck ran into a wire strung across a private trail in Albion, I got that “déjà vu” experience. I handled a similar case about 4 years ago. That case involved a dirt bike…
When I was a college student, I used to paint houses in the summer to make a few bucks. I was fearless then. I would climb way up high on extension ladders and paint the peaks of three-story homes. And I would climb on roofs, lie down and dangle my…
The Syracuse Post Standard ran an Article this weekend titled, “The stats the hospital industry doesn’t want you to know”. The article talked about a recent Medicare study revealing that patients in Syracuse area hospitals often get worse, instead of better, because they become victims of preventable “hospital-acquired conditions” (“HAC”),…
I was right. In my last blog post I discussed the Minetto car-on-motorcycle collision. The car had drifted over into the motorcycle’s lane of travel and collided with it. In my blog post, I said “my guess as to why this young driver crossed over? Driver distraction”. I explained that,…
When Central New York motorcycle accident lawyers like me read about a motorcycle-on-car collision, by force of habit, we focus on fault. You can’t always tell when you read the newspaper whose fault it was. But often you can. Here’s a recent example. I just read on Syracuse.com about a…
Today was “bike to work day”, and as an avid bicyclist and a Central New York bicycle accident lawyer, I couldn’t resist snooping around a bit on the web to see what I could find. I stumbled upon an interesting article about bike-on-car crashes on NPR’s website entitled, “When Bikes…
Hit-and-run car accidents happen more often that you think. As a Central and Syracuse New York car accident lawyer, I know. I have handled dozens of cases like that. And there was just a hit-and-run in Auburn, New York this week. News media report that an Auburn, NY resident was…