New York State Personal Injury Lawyer Resources

New York State has one of the more distinctive personal injury frameworks in the country. Auto accidents run through a mandatory no-fault system that pays initial medical bills and lost wages through the injured person's own insurer, regardless of fault, while the ability to sue for pain and suffering depends on whether the injuries meet the statutory "serious injury" threshold under Insurance Law §5102(d). Construction cases are governed by the state's Labor Law, especially §§240 and 241(6), which give injured workers unusually strong protections in gravity-related accidents. Together these rules make New York a jurisdiction where an experienced plaintiff lawyer can unlock value that a general practitioner would miss.

New York generally applies a three-year statute of limitations to personal injury claims, which is longer than most states, but claims against government entities, including the state, a city, a county, the MTA, and public hospitals, require a Notice of Claim filed within a much shorter window, typically 90 days, followed by a 50-h examination before a lawsuit can be filed. Missing those steps is almost always fatal to the case, and in my 32 years of practice it is one of the most common ways strong municipal claims are lost.

Goldberg & Loren handles New York injury cases across the state, including New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Westchester, the Capital Region, and upstate, covering auto and truck crashes, pedestrian and bicycle injuries, Labor Law construction cases, premises liability, dog bites, and wrongful death. George Goldberg founded the firm after starting his career in 1994 defending airlines and insurers and switching to the plaintiff side in 1996. That defense background helps us anticipate how New York's sophisticated defense bar will try to argue down every serious injury claim.

Below you will find our New York articles and the FAQs clients ask most often in a first consultation.

If you were hurt anywhere in New York State, we offer a free consultation 24/7 and you pay nothing unless we recover money for you. Call us at 1-888-352-9243.