Five people were injured yesterday afternoon when a car hit a utility pole in Gorham, Ontario County. The accident apparently happened like this: A southbound car carrying 4 passengers on Route 245 tried to pass a vehicle, didn’t see the oncoming vehicle until it was too late, and then swerved…
Here at Michaels Bersani Kalabanka, our standard personal injury retainer agreement contains a phrase that basically tells the client, “shut up” (please). Clients are not supposed to speak with anyone about the case or the accident without our consent. Why? First, it’s pretty obvious why you should not speak to…
New York personal injury cases can take weird twists and turns, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse. Here’s one that took a dramatic turn for the better, twice! A client was badly, really badly, injured in an upstate New York car crash. But the at-fault driver (who…
I haven’t had much time for blogging and I am sure that my many thousands (yea right!) of dedicated readers are wondering why. Wonder no longer. Instead of blogging, I have been working on my review of this year’s New York case law regarding New York municipal and governmental liability.…
Since my last post on this Cortland area tour bus accident, news sources indicate that 28 of the 30 passengers on the bus were from Poland, and that, fortunately, most appear to have suffered only minor injuries. Police say heavy rain was falling at the time the bus left the…
It’s an epidemic. For the 3rd time this summer, a tour bus has been involved in an accident in Central New York State. This time a tour bus overturned in Whitney Point, between Exits 6 and 7 southbound on Interstate 81, just south of Cortland, at about 7:15 p.m. There…
I love the New York Times. Read it every day. That doesn’t mean I always agree with it. And here’s a great example. A recent article by John Tierny explains that some playground “researchers” question the value of safety-first playgrounds. The researchers claim that, while it is “debatable” whether modern…
With internet search engine optimization techniques, many New York personal injury lawyers from as far away as New York City pretend to be “Seneca County personal injury lawyers” or “Seneca Falls Accident Lawyers”. Just do a google search with those words and you will see what I mean. You can…
Hey Mr. tough guy. You had a really good New York car accident case after that car pummeled you from behind. It was all his fault. You were just minding your own business waiting for light to turn green when — bang! — that bozo ran right into you. Then…
At about 1:30 a.m. last night, a Canadian tour bus and a tractor trailer collided and erupted in fire in the eastbound lanes of the New York State Thruway, in the Town of Junius, Seneca County, between exists 41 and 42. This is very close to where I live (Geneva)…