Central New York Injury Lawyer BlogNew 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 was also the owner) of […]
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Does New York Auto Insurance Cover Vehicular Assaults in New York Pedestrian Injury Cases?
The Syracuse Post Standard reported the other day that an SUV struck a Syracuse man “on purpose” after an argument on Westcott Street Tuesday morning. Fortunately, the injuries do not appear serious; the victim suffered only cuts to his arm and leg and was taken to Upstate University Hospital. Here’s my blog topic for today: […]
Intoxicated Motorist Who Caused Syracuse Car-on-Motorcycle Crash Gets Jail Time.
The Syracuse Post Standard reports that a Baldwinsville man got a one-to-three year jail sentence for seriously injuring two motorcyclists last fall in a Syracuse, New York car-on-motorcycle collision. He was driving through the intersection of Hiawatha Boulevard and State Fair Boulevard in Syracuse with a .08 blood-alcohol count when he turned left into an […]
Syracuse New York Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Lawyer on How to Change the Law
The other day a fellow Central New York injury lawyer congratulated me on a recent Court victory I had, which changed the law throughout New York State, and helped him, and other New York personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers, better represent their clients. The case he was referring to was Thompson v Mather, which […]
Madison County, New York Car Crash Injuring Several Passengers Demonstates New York Car Insurance Principles
The Syracuse Post Standard reports that eight people were injured in a two-car crash last Friday night in Eaton, Madison County, New York. That’s a lot of injured people for one accident! It’s unusual, too, because nowadays most vehicles on the road have NO passengers. Look around next time you are driving and you will […]
Cato, Cayuga County, New York Road Rage Incident Kills Camillus Man.
The Syracuse Post Standard reported a strange vehicular assault case yesterday. A Camillus man, Christopher Spack, was killed when an elderly driver, William Levea, 79, of County Route 6, Fulton, deliberately rammed his car repeatedly into Christopher Spack’s pickup truck from behind while they were both driving on Route 370 in Cato. The repeated ramming […]
Is a School in New York Liable When a Student Trips Another Student at School?
Recently, in Ontario County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, a 14-year old student of a public middle school didn’t go home at the end of the school day. Instead he ended up in a hospital getting plates and screws installed to fix a severely broken elbow. How did that happen? A […]