You can’t be a New York personal Injury lawyer for very long without learning to hate insurance companies. I think it took me all of 6 months when I started out years ago to realize how brutal they were. You see, insurance companies “screw” good people all the time. Here’s…
As a Syracuse New York personal injury lawyer, I have received countless calls from Syracuse and Central New York workers injured at work who want to know, “do I have a case”? When a worker calls and says they were injured on the job, here are, pretty much in order,…
My father was a bone doctor. He made his living putting broken human bodies, among them motorcyclists’ bodies, back together again, kind of like “all the kings’ horses and all the kings men” in that Humpty Dumpty rhyme. He was a loving, gentle father, and very seldom lost his temper.…
The top personal injury blogger in New York State, Eric Turewitz, had an interesting blog post today. He wrote about how, according to an ABC News article, the US Chamber of Commerce, one of the biggest corporate lobby group in the USA, plans to throw $10 Million at pro-“tort-reform” candidates…
Last week, on September 28, tragedy struck in Oswego. One fishermen died, another is in critical condition, and several others narrowly escaped death. The men were fishing near the Varick damn in the Oswego River in the City of Oswego. Several dams, used to hold back water to generate electrical…
Syracuse medical malpractice lawyers are taking note: Upstate University Hospital has a recent demonstrated history of performing botched or erroneous surgeries. The lawyers at Michaels Bersani Kalabanka know this first-hand. We have successfully sued Upstate several times, including a case two years ago which rendered a $2.5 Million verdict to…
This Central New York accident lawyer is “on tour” again, traveling across New York State teaching other New York personal injury lawyers about New York “municipal liability law”. I addressed a very welcoming and attentive room of New York personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers in Manhattan this Friday, and…
The Syracuse New York bus accident lawyer busy and thinking. I have handled complex personal injury cases before, but this one has lots of interesting twists, as can be seen by reading my prior blogs about it, entitled: “Syracuse Megabus Overpass Collision — Was It the County’s Fault?” “Syracuse Auto…
Hate to tell you, but I told you so! I previously blogged about the dangers of Facebook and similar social media for injured plaintiffs in New York personal injury lawsuits. I explained that, as a Central New York personal injury lawyer, I advise my clients to be very careful about…
Watch this video of a doctor’s lecture on “Medpage”. He tells his fellow medical doctors how to avoid getting sued for medical malpractice. Some of his points are well taken. For example, “Care deeply about your patients”, and “communicate” well and often with them. (It’s harder to sue someone you…