On Tuesday, November 24, I took my two children (Sebastian, 12 and Nico, 10) to get their H1NI flu vaccination at the Bristol Field House at Hobart William Smith College in Geneva, Ontario County, New York, where we live. Although I firmly believe this was the right decision, I can…
First scenario: You are walking on a sidewalk in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York and trip and fall on a raised portion (a “differential”) of the sidewalk that had been poorly maintained. You are injured. Second scenario: Same thing happens in Penn Yan, Yates County, New York. Question: Can you…
Several injured construction workers have walked into my office this year in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, as they do every year, with a typical central New York construction-site injury story that goes something like this: “Mr. Bersani, I fell from a ladder and suffered bad injuries while I was…
The Institute of Medicine reported a decade ago that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die in hospitals in the U.S. every year from medical errors. At Michaels Bersani Kalabanka we handle many medical malpractice actions involving injured patients from the Syracuse, Auburn, and Geneva, New York areas, as…
The Syracuse Post Standard reported a strange vehicular assault case yesterday. A Camillus man, Christopher Spack, was killed when an elderly driver, William Levea, 79, of County Route 6, Fulton, deliberately rammed his car repeatedly into Christopher Spack’s pickup truck from behind while they were both driving on Route 370…
Recently, in Ontario County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, a 14-year old student of a public middle school didn’t go home at the end of the school day. Instead he ended up in a hospital getting plates and screws installed to fix a severely broken elbow.…
Today New York Governor Patterson signed into law a bill making driving while intoxicated with a child (person under 16) in the car a felony, even for a first-time offender. If convicted, the offender could spend up to four years in jail. The new law also requires first-time DWI convicts…
Hurray! This week New York Governor Patterson signed a new law, which had wound its way through the New York legislature for months, which helps victims of personal injury in New York and New York personal injury lawyers, including Auburn and Syracuse personal injury lawyers like me! The law amends…
Effective November 24, 2009, “child-restraint systems” (car seats and booster seats for kids) are required for ALL CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 8 (that is, through age 7). The law previously required this only for kids less than 6 years of age (through age 5). What does this mean for…
We got a very large settlement ($7.5 Million) last year for a young man involved in an automobile accident in Cayuga County, near Auburn. The young man had gone out to a bar in Skaneateles with some friends. On their way home, the driver, who was somewhat intoxicated, lost control…