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What Should You Know About Spine Injuries?
Should you use a lawyer for your spinal cord injury? Spine injuries can make life challenging, affecting your mobility, your work, your quality of life and basic activities involved with daily living. If someone else was responsible for causing your injury, getting...
What Should You Know About Facial Fracture Injuries?
What kinds of challenges come with facial injury? For most people, facial fracture injuries are devastating because their face is the bodily feature they identify with and value most. The psychological harm from a facial traumatic injury may last beyond the physical...
What is traumatic brain injury and what about compensation to cover expenses?
Understanding traumatic brain injury The Law Office of John Fazzini, P.C. can help you determine the seriousness of your traumatic brain injury and your right to receive compensation from the party who caused it. A head injury can be minor, or it can be catastrophic....
Personal Injury Claim Involving Minors
How do personal injury claims differ from adult claims in NY? One of the major differences between a personal injury claim involving minors and one involving adults is the time limitations for filing a lawsuit. New York C.V.P. Law § 208(a) sets the time limit (called...
What Factors Do Car Accident Lawyers Use to Determine if You Have a Case?
Should you use a lawyer for your car accident? Car accident lawyers consider a number of factors when determining whether you have a case. Not every accident would warrant using a car accident lawyer. In fact, some claimants are better off not using a lawyer. This is...
Construction Accidents in NY—New York Labor Law 240
For some construction accidents in NY, New York Labor Law 240 would apply. Another common name for this labor law is the Scaffold Law. The New York legislature passed its original scaffold law in 1885. At the time, there was a lack of legal protection for construction...
What Factors Affect a Car Accident Settlement?
How the timeline for a car accident claim works A car accident settlement can sometimes go quickly. However, in many cases when a fast settlement occurs, it is because the injury victim was willing to accept a low settlement offer. Often, waiting longer results in...
Brooklyn, NY Construction Site Accident
Collapse of construction site in Borough Park, Brooklyn At the beginning of February, a Brooklyn NY construction site accident needlessly took the life of a worker. This occurred at a two-story building located on 1266 50th Street. The work being done at the site was...
Does a Driver’s Duty of Care Change in Winter Weather?
Can You Be Liable for Driving within the Speed Limit on Icy or Snowy Roads? Though you can always file a personal injury lawsuit based on the intentional acts of another person, as a practical matter, most personal injury claims are based on a legal principle known as...
The Duties of New York Property Owners to Remove Snow and Ice
When Will a Residential or Commercial Property Owner Be Liable for a Slip and Fall? In New York, as in every state, the owner or person in control (“owner”) of residential or commercial premises has a duty to anyone legally visiting the property. The owner must take...
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