A commercial truck driver's medical conditions which affect concentration, alertness and cognitive abilities are relevant in truck accidents which result in personal injury and wrongful death. Our truck accident lawyers regularly handle truck accident cases in New York City, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Long Island and even New Jersey.

Our New York and Westchester car accident lawyers have successfully handled numerous cases for people injured in car accidents with either suspended licenses or no license at all. The law in New York, is that the license issue can be considered by a jury but is not dispositive. In New York, who is at fault is the central inquiry. For example, someone with a license issue can still win if the other party violated the rules of the road such as rear ending the car which the unlicensed driver was operating or blowing a stop sign or red light.

The New York Courts have held that operating a car, truck or motorcycle without a valid truck, car or motorcycle license or registration are traffic infractions under Vehicle and Traffic Law, however, operating a car, truck or motorcycle without a valid license, registration, or insurance is not sufficiently serious illegal activity to completely bar an injured person's recovery on public policy grounds.

Bus driver fatigue, distraction and even texting and cell phone use are all contributing factors to bus accidents. Our New York personal injury lawyers have handled numerous personal injury and even wrongful death cases involving bus accident. Motorists, pedestrians and bicycle riders are all at risk from careless bus operation.

There are strict time limits in bus accident cases. Your own car insurance company may be responsible to pay your lost wages and medical benefits or if you don't own a vehicle, the bus company must pay your lost wages and medical benefits, but you must file an application for no fault benefits within 30 days of the accident. Likewise, usually a notice of claim must be filed within 90 days. If you miss these deadlines, you may be out of luck. So personal injury victims who are hurt in bus accidents who are injured in bus accidents need to speak with an experienced bus accident lawyer shortly after their accident.

Following a week long jury trial, the jury awarded over nine hundred thousand dollars and since we won the liability case over a year ago, our client is entitled to a year of interest at nine percent, which puts the total verdict over one million dollars. The defense in this case made a low ball offer of one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars and refused to make any higher offer. Our New York personal injury lawyers obtained a verdict of over 800 percent higher than the insurance company's offer.

Traditionally, New York's Labor Law 240 required protection from falling objects and a construction worker who was injured because of a falling object could sue the site owner or a general contractor for their injuries. Now the Court of Appeals held that where the object of the work is to cause an object to fall, there is no Labor Law 240 violation, not withstanding that Labor Law 240 requires that proper protection be provided. This tends to occur during demolition, however, where the construction or demolition causes something to fall which was not the object of the work, there is still Labor Law 240 protection. For example, where one wall is being demolished, but it hits another wall or pole the demolition of which was not the object of the work and that wall or pole falls, there would be a Labor Law 240 violation.

However, New York's construction injury attorneys should continue to look to Labor Law 241 and the New York Industrial Code for rule violations which can be used to protect New York's construction workers. At this point, it is uncertain as to whether the Courts will continue to expand this exception to other types of construction accidents.

The driver of the garbage truck and the City tried to avoid their responsibility by claiming that there was a sudden and unforeseen emergency because their brakes suddenly failed. Our Westchester personal injury lawyers consulted with an expert diesel brake mechanic and gained the technical expertise to reveal the City of White Plains defense for the sham that it was.

Our Westchester truck accident lawyer, Michael Joseph, took several depositions of the mechanics from the City's garage, all of whom were highly experienced diesel mechanics. Through these depositions, our injury attorneys were able to prove that the brakes were in good condition shortly before the accident an upon the post inspection repair, all of the brakes were in good working order. Additionally, our Westchester car accident lawyer got the mechanics to admit that a sudden failure which the garbage truck driver claimed was a mechanical impossibility because the rear and front brakes work independently and if there is a failure in one part the other can stop the truck. Additionally, the braking system on these types of trucks have a dual braking system with a service side and an emergency system. These systems work independent of each other and therefore a failure on one side will not effect the other. Therefore, the City's own brake mechanics conceded that the garbage truck driver's story was a mechanical impossibility.

Today, the Westchester Supreme Court agreed and found the City and its driver one hundred percent negligent for the accident. Our Westchester truck accident attorneys will continue to protect victims of car accidents and truck accidents including those in the towns of Yonkers, Harrison, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Peekskill, Port Chester, Pelham, Scarsdale, Tarrytown, Greenburgh, Elmsford and Rye.

Our New York personal injury lawyers have represented numerous foreign nationals and undocumented aliens in accidents including car accidents, construction accidents and even wrongful death cases. Wrongful death cases are becoming more common for undocumented aliens in New York's construction industry.

There are several unique issues in representing foreign nationals and undocumented aliens in wrongful death cases. First, in New York, only the estate representative can commence a lawsuit for wrongful death. So the first question is whether there is anyone who resides in New York that can serve as estate representative. Unfortunately, the Courts will not allow an undocumented alien to serve as an estate representative and all to often a tourist or alien working in the U.S., does not have any family locally, who can act as the estate administrator. In these cases our New York injury attorneys contact the public administrator's office and get them appointed as an estate representative, so that a wrongful death lawsuit can be commenced for the decedent and their families. Often the families think that they do not have any rights because they do not reside in the United States or are not here legally. This is incorrect, and while a foreign national or illegal alien cannot serve as an estate administrator in the State of New York, the New York Courts have expressly recognized the rights of foreign tourists, illegal aliens and foreign nationals have full access to the New York Courts and have the same right to file a lawsuit and recover monetary damages as a U.S. citizen.

Our New York wrongful death attorneys speak Spanish and have extensive experience in representing the large undocumented population and their families in the New York Metropolitan area. New York's construction industry and food industries continue to draw immigrant labor from South American especially, Mexico, Columbia, Equador, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru. These dangerous jobs draw poor immigrants from South America, who regularly send money home to their families. When the working member of the family here is killed, it is often both a human and financial tragedy and devastation to the foreign family members. Our New York lawyers fight hard to make sure that the families of foreign nationals who die in New York are treated fairly by the New York Courts and receive the justice they deserve.

While no amount of money could ever replace a loved one, New York's laws add insult to injury. Within thirty days of the accident, the next of kin must file a no fault application with the insurance company for the car which the deceased was in. So New York's absurd laws require that while a devastated family is still mourning, they need to get to a lawyer to make sure that the paperwork is properly filled out otherwise they loose their benefits. Our New York wrongful death attorneys regularly prepare these forms for the loved ones of deceased accident victims. The insurance company is required to pay for all funeral expenses, other incidental expenses and provide a meager death benefit of a few thousand dollars.

Additionally, the family is only entitled to recover "pecuniary losses" which are those financial losses which the family can prove would have been received by them had the person lived and the value of the services which the person would have provided. Our New York wrongful death lawyers have expertise in working with forensic economists to maximize our client's recovery.

Additionally, the estate can recover for the pre-death pain and suffering of the deceased. So our attorneys regularly work with forensic pathologists to determine how long the decedent lived after the accident.

Also another hurdle which the family must face is having an estate set up because the cause of action must be prosecuted by the estate. So another initial step involves bringing a petition for letters of administration to the Surrogate Court. Our New York accident lawyers routinely prepare these applications as a courtesy to the families of those who suffer wrongful death in New York.

New York's general municipal law has strict laws and time limits for commencing a lawsuit. To file a lawsuit against a municipality or school district, the injured party must file a notice of claim within ninety days of the accident. Then the lawsuit must actually be filed within a year and ninety days of the accident. However, when children are involved the statute of limitations are tolled until the child reaches 18 years, but the time to file a notice of claim is not tolled. Our New York accident lawyers have filed hundreds, if not thousands of notice of claims and we have the experience to protect children injured on playgrounds. If a notice of claim is not filed in time, the injured party will not be able to sue unless they get permission from the Court. Our New York injury lawyers have won numerous cases in which we obtained Court permission to file a late notice of claim and ultimately recovered substantial monetary awards for our clients.

These cases are also a trap for the unweary because many school districts are legally separate entities from the town or City in which they are located, so a careful New York lawyer must research the property owner information and make sure the right entity is served.

New York drivers often fear being unable to sue the out of state motorist, because they don't live in New York. However, New York's vehicle and traffic law protects New York's motorists and our New York accident lawyers are familiar with the unique issues involved in dealing with truck accidents and car accidents with out of state motorists.

New York Courts have jurisdiction over anyone involved in a car or truck accident in New York. Also New York's vehicle and traffic law allows service of process to be effectuated on the Secretary of State for any out of state motorist.

In this recent case, a demolition worker sustained personal injuries while climbing over an eight-foot- high, partially demolished wall and a pile of demolition debris which was blocking the doorway to go to a different work area. While climbing the wall, the demolition worker tripped and fell over the eight-foot wall and sustained serious personal injuries.

While many construction accident attorneys analyze Labor Law 240, only as to whether a ladder, plank or scaffold, our New York construction accident lawyers also focus on the lack or failure of a contractor or construction site owner to provide a ladder or scaffold or other device to safely work at a height or prevent a fall from occurring. As New York's Supreme Court's Appellate Department recently held, the critical issue in a Labor Law 240 case is whether plaintiff's injuries were the direct consequence of a failure to provide adequate protection against a risk arising from a physically significant elevation differential.

Therefore when construction workers in New York are not given adequate tools and have to improvise to do their work, and they get hurt on a construction job site, our New York construction accident attorneys will continue to protect New York's construction workers who get injured for no good reason.

A los efectos de la Ley de Labor 241, demolición sedefine en 12 nycrr § 23 a 1.4 (b) (16) como el trabajo eventual o asociado conel total o parcial de desmantelamiento o demolición de un edificio o otraestructura como la eliminación o el desmantelamiento de maquinaria o otrosequipos. Por lo tanto para ser cubierto bajo la Ley de Labor de Nueva York eltrabajador lesionado en demolición deberia ha estado participando en lademolición de una estructura. En una decisión reciente, los tribunales de NuevaYork encontraron que el desmantelamiento de un vehículo, ya sea un barco, uncoche o de otra manera sin relación con cualquier otro proyecto, no es el tipode demolición que se pretende incluir en la Ley de Labor de Nueva York.

Trabajadores de la construcción que participan en lademolición en Nueva York muchas veces sufren lesiones personales graves eincluso muerte por negligencia cuando son golpeados por la caída de escombros.Nuestros abogados especialistas en accidentes de construcción en Nueva York hanutilizado a menudo la Ley de Labor de Nueva York 241 para representar con éxitoa los trabajadores lesionados de la construcción. Abogados que representan alos trabajadores lesionados de demolición en Nueva York deben estar familiarizadoscon las nuevas disposiciones del código de industria de Nueva York con respectaa la demolición. Codigo industrial 12 nycrr § § 23 a 3.3 (b) (3) establece quelas partes de los edificios no se dejará sin vigilancia en condiciones talesque dichas piezas se pueden caer, desplomarse o ser debilitado por la presióndel viento o la vibración. 12 nycrr 23 a 3.3 (c) establece que durante lasoperaciones de demolición por mano, las inspecciones se hará continuamente porlas personas designadas para detectar los riesgos derivados de plantasdebilitadas o deterioradas o paredes, o de material suelta, y require laprotección de el trabajador de demolición de Nueva York contra dichos peligros,mediante apuntalamiento, refuerzos y otros medios eficaces.

Sección 23-1.7 (a) (1) del código del trabajo tambiénrequiere que todos los lugares donde personas tienen que trabajen o pasar porque normalmente está expuesta a la caída de material o objetos deberán estarprovistos de protección de sobrecarga adecuados.

Abogados especialistas en accidentes de construcción en Nueva York por lo tanto debe estar consciente de estos reglamentos relacionadoscon la demolición.

In most wet stair cases, you need to show that the owner either created the wet and slippery condition or that they knew or should have known about the water and failed to remedy the condition. This can often be difficult to do and our New York personal injury lawyers have been innovative in closely analyzing the stairway condition as a contributing factor.

Our New York personal injury lawyers have successfully prosecuted personal injury cases in New York City by establishing that the stair treads did not have skid resistant material, which is a violation of the New York City Building and Maintenance Codes. Even if the cause of the water cannot be proven, the lack of skid resistant material can always be proven at a defendants' deposition, which is sufficient to establish improper and negligent maintenance.

Our New York personal injury lawyers regularly handle slip and fall cases in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

En Nueva York, abogados que atienden casos de lesiones personales relacionados conaccidentes de coches en las intersecciones debe estar familiarizado con lasresponsabilidades de los conductores en las intersecciones. La Ley de Vehículosy Tránsito en Nueva York 1142(a) requiere que cada conductor de un vehículo,incluyendo un coche y camión que se acerca a una señal de stop que parre. Laley también exige que los automóviles y camiones después de parar que ceden elpaso a cualquier vehículo, automóvil, motocicleta o camión que ha entrado en laintersección de otra carretera o que se acerca tan estrechamente en dichacarretera que constituyan un peligro inmediato durante el momento en que elconductor se mueve a través o dentro de la intersección.

Abogadosde accidentes de coche en Nueva York también debe estar familiarizado conresponsabilidades del conductor de coche con peatones cruzando la calle. La Leyde Vehículos y Tránsito de Nueva York 1142 (b) requiere que los conductores devehículos, incluyendo automóviles y camiones llegando a un ceda del paso quefrenen a una velocidad razonable para las condiciones existentes, o parar si esnecesario. La ley también requiere que los conductores ceden el paso acualquier peatón cruzando legalmente la carretera en la que está conduciendo, ycualquier vehículo en la intersección o acercándose en otra carretera tan estrechacomo para constituir un peligro inmediato durante el tiempo que el conductor semueve a través o dentro de la intersección.

Laley proporciona un arma poderosa a los abogados especialistas en accidentes decoches en Nueva York que representan a los peatones heridos. La ley estableceque si un conductor está involucrado en una colisión con un peatón en un pasode peatones o de un vehículo en la intersección después de conducir más allá deun ceda el paso sin detenerse, la colisión se considerará evidencia prima faciede su fracaso para ceder el derecho de paso.

Los tribunales de Nueva York han reconocido en repetidas ocasiones que cuando unconductor ha violado una ley de tránsito destinado a garantizar la seguridad delos demás, y esta violación causa otra lesión, el tribunal podrá encontrarresolución a favor del demandante dañado, siempre y cuando no ha habidonegligencia comparativa establecido. Los tribunales han razonado que unconductor de un automóvil o camión que no cede el derecho de paso después deparar en una señal de stop está en violación de la Ley de Vehículos y Tránsito§ 1142 (a) y negligente como cuestión de derecho. El conductor está obligado aver lo que a través del uso adecuado de sus sentidos que él o ella debe habervisto "y el conductor con el derecho de paso" está intitulado para anticiparque el otro conductor se regirá por la ley de tránsito que requieren él o ellaa ceder.

Bajola Ley de Vehículos y Tránsito en Nueva York § 1111 (a) (1) los conductores deautomóviles y camiones están legalmente obligados a ceder el paso a lospeatones en el cruce de peatones que estan cruzando cuando tienen el senal de"walk" esta a su favor, y cuando el conductor no para, elso establecenegligencia a primera vista como cuestión de derecho. Un peatón lesionado tienederecho a juicio como cuestión de derecho donde el demandante se encontraba enel cruce de peatones con la luz en su favor, y el coche le golpeo a hacer unagirar a la izquierda. Un conductor del vehículo tiene la obligación de observary ver a los peatones, y es negligente en el que no ha podido ver lo que através del uso adecuado de sus sentidos debería haber visto.

Abogadosde accidente de coche en Nueva York deben utilizar siempre estos estatutosfirme para representar a sus clientes que sufren graves lesiones personales enaccidentes de tráfico participación de las intersecciones con señales de alto.