Long Beach Personal Injury Lawyer

If you suffered injuries in an incident caused by someone’s careless actions, New York’s personal injury laws permit you to hold them legally and financially liable and recover compensation. A Long Beach personal injury lawyer from Friedman & Simon, L.L.P. will fight for an appropriate settlement or verdict based on your damages. Our team is ready to review your case, explain your rights, and help you understand what to do next after getting hurt. We will meet with you on Long Island or elsewhere in the New York metropolitan area, and your consultations with our firm are free.

Our Team Will Seek Compensation for Your Damages

When a lawyer from Friedman & Simon, L.L.P. represents you, they will gather evidence, form strong arguments, and, depending on the unique circumstances of your case, call in experts to support your case for damages. Some of these witnesses include:

• Medical experts
• Vocational rehabilitation specialists
• Lifecare planners
• Economists

They will also estimate the appropriate payout you need to cover your losses and expenses. Our staff members are all passionate advocates for those who are injured, and we work to protect our clients’ rights and handle their cases. This includes:

• Keeping them updated as we proceed
• Identifying all liable parties
• Communicating with all parties
• Gathering evidence
• Determining a value for their case
• Fighting to win the best possible case outcome

We work based on contingency fees, which means you do not pay us any fees unless we recover compensation in your case. If English is not your first language, we also have multilingual staff members who will discuss your case in various other languages, including Spanish, Greek, Bengali, Tamil, or Kannada.

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Damages Recoverable in a Long Beach Personal Injury Case

The damages a victim can recover are unique to their situation. We seek maximum payouts for our clients based on the injuries and financial losses they suffered. If we represent you through this process, your potential compensation depends on the value of your expenses and losses, such as:

• Current and future economic expenses
• Current and future loss of income
• Future and ongoing medical care needs
• Non-economic losses, such as past and future pain and suffering

Calculating Your Recoverable Damages

We will need to collect proof of your damages to estimate the value of your case. This is when calling in experts like economists and medical specialists can help, as they could give valuable insight into the cost of your injuries. Evidence of your recoverable damages could include:

• Medical bills
• Medical records and related documents
• Past paychecks for proof of missed income
• Testimony about your prognosis and treatment plan
• Receipts to show other related expenses

We want you to understand the cost of your damages. Insurers often dangle cash settlements in front of injured parties and their families, hoping they will think it is enough money to cover their losses. We don’t want you to accept a settlement offer and then find that it doesn’t account for your hardships. In addition to gathering documentation of current expenses and losses incurred, our team also puts together proof of future damages, such as:

• Potential future medical care costs
• Diminished earning capacity

We also value the intangible losses our clients suffered, such as the effects of any lasting impairments on their quality of life, their physical pain, and their mental anguish.

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Understanding Personal Injury Cases and How They Work

All personal injury cases have three elements in common:

• Someone acted negligently or carelessly.
• This led another party to suffer injuries.
• Those injuries caused long-term physical, emotional, or financial damages.

Due to these broad terms, many different scenarios can warrant a personal injury claim or lawsuit. Our team works on a wide array of cases, particularly around incidents involving:

• Construction site accidents
• Dog bites
• Nursing home abuse and neglect
• Premises liability cases, such as slip and falls
• Drownings and pool accidents
• Medical malpractice and birth injuries

In these cases, it could be possible to file an insurance claim or sue the at-fault party and seek compensation for your injuries. However, you must follow the rules to do so, such as meeting all deadlines and following all other technical requirements..

Additional Circumstances for Collision Cases

Motor vehicle accidents also fall into the category of personal injury cases, although the process for taking legal action is somewhat different in New York State. We handle collision claims and lawsuits for our clients and have a strong understanding of how the state’s laws apply to crashes in New York City and on Long Island. The cases we handle include:

• Car accidents
• Truck accidents
• Motorcycle accidents
• Uber & Lyft rideshare accidents
• Taxi accidents
• Bus accidents
• Accidents involving motor vehicles and pedestrians or bicyclists

When it comes to motor vehicle accidents, New York is a no-fault insurance state.   While this provides easy access to certain benefits, including medical expenses and lost earnings, it makes it more complex to recover compensation in some cases. In general, to recover beyond the no-fault benefits requires proving your injuries are “serious,” per New York Civil Insurance Laws (ISC) §5102(d). From the list above, motorcycle accidents are treated differently than the other accident types under no-fault laws in New York. Other cases are also sometimes exempt from requiring you to first count on your no-fault insurance coverage before filing a fault-based claim. For example, this may occur if you were hurt in a truck accident caused by a driver from another state. If you suffered minor or moderate injuries, you might be able to recover enough from your no-fault policy to cover your losses. For more significant injuries, though, a fault-based claim will allow you to recover additional types of damages, including pain and suffering. A member of our legal team will be glad to discuss these specifics with you when you call our office.

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Act Today to Protect Your Right to Sue the At-Fault Party

There is a statute of limitations that applies to personal injury lawsuits in New York: New York Civil Practice Laws & Rules (CVP) §214. This statute sets a general deadline for filing the paperwork that names the defendant in a lawsuit and starts the process. You need to act before this deadline expires to protect your rights. It is important to note that in certain circumstances a significantly shorter statute of limitations may apply.   Failure to commence a lawsuit within the time period set forth in the statute of limitations will, unless a specific exception applies, mean the end of your case and your opportunity to make any monetary recovery. In addition to the statute of limitations, there are also other time restrictions you must consider in these cases. Some of them are statutory, but many apply to building a strong case and gathering evidence. For example, imagine the security cameras of a nearby gas station record your traffic collision. This footage could help your case, but businesses often record over these files regularly. Another challenge would be tracking down eyewitnesses to obtain a statement. Witnesses could:

• Forget important details of what they saw and heard
• Move away from the area
• Become unavailable for a wide variety of reasons

We could lose this evidence if we do not know about your case in time. The faster you act to enlist our help, the more opportunity we have to build a strong case and hold the at-fault party accountable for its actions.

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Call Today to Speak with an Attorney About Your Case

A Long Beach personal injury lawyer from our team will pursue damages from the negligent party. The Friedman & Simon, L.L.P. team will review the facts of your accident case, determine the potentially liable parties, and discuss your legal options with you. Get started right now by dialing (516) 932-0400.

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