I just completed my fourth annual round-the-State lecture to other injury lawyers regarding Municipal Liability for the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers. You can see the outline for my talk at the “publications” page on our Michaels Bersani Kalabanka website. “Municipal Liability” means holding a government entity, such…
I recently read an article entitled “Deadly Mistakes that Plague Hospitals” by William Campbell Douglass II, M.D. According to the article, there are 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries every year and there is a 1-in-30 chance that your prescription will be filled out wrong. A lot of these are blamed on…
So you’re hurt and out-of-work through no fault of your own. You hired a good injury lawyer to bring a claim against the responsible parties. You lawyer says you’ve got a strong case, but meanwhile you’ve got no money coming in and those bills keep piling up. So what do…
A horrific bicycling accident took place in Onondaga County a few weeks ago. The poor guy was riding his “road” bike, that is, a racing style bicycle, along a State Route 20. He was doing everything right; had his helmet on, was wearing proper bright clothing, was riding on the…
When people ask me what I do for a living, and I tell them I am a personal injury lawyer, they sometimes roll their eyes, tell me a lawyer joke, or wag their finger at me about all the “frivolous” lawsuits us injury lawyers bring. My response to the “frivolous”…
I represent many “illegal” immigrant farm workers in their personal injury claims. Why? First, I speak fluent Spanish. I am married to a Guatemalan. We speak Spanish at home with our children. It is only natural that injured Spanish speakers in Central New York would seek out the only Spanish…
Please allow me to introduce myself: Mike Bersani, your Central New York Injury Law Blogger. I am a personal injury lawyer in Central New York with the law firm of Michaels Bersani Kalabanka We have our law offices are in Auburn, New York, which is in Cayuga County, just north…