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Your Legal Rights After an MTA Bus Crash in New York City For anyone reeling from an MTA bus crash, it is important to know your legal rights and what you can expect from a personal injury lawsuit against the MTA or NYCTA. Injury victims may be able to collect...

Liability in Personal Injury Lawsuits Liability is the legal responsibility, or in lay terms “fault”, for an accident, an essential factor in personal injury cases. It determines who is accountable and enables victims to seek compensation. Once liability is...

Reasonable Person Standard in Negligence Cases The “reasonable person” or “reasonably prudent person” standard offers a useful metric for assessing the behavior of persons in a case. Whether or not we ourselves always behave in a reasonable way, most of us have an...

Boom Lift and Aerial Lift Accidents Boom lifts, which can reach heights of over 17 stories, can be as dangerous as they are helpful. If owners, general contractors, employers, operators, and those on the ground are not cautious and vigilant, tragedy can strike....

Labor Law 200 Explained New York City’s Labor Law 200, applying to laborers such as construction workers, describes the duty of employers and construction site owners “to protect [the] health and safety of employees” by assuring them of “reasonable and adequate...

NJ Transit Bus Accidents If a bus driver, a passenger, a driver of another vehicle, or even NJ Transit as an entity—behaved negligently and their actions led to injury, it may be possible for victims to bring a personal injury lawsuit against the negligent party. NJ...

What is Burden of Proof in Civil Cases? How Does It Apply to Personal Injury? When a party in a case makes an allegation, we say that that party has the burden of proof, or the legal responsibility of producing evidence which backs the claim they have made. In a...

Personal Injury Claims Against Landlords Every year, hundreds of people across the United States are injured on the premises they rent and consider their home. The landlord-tenant relationship is a relationship that is governed by a contract, and, therefore, if one...

Here’s What You Need to Know Legally After a Slip and Fall at Work If you are injured in your place of work, one of the first things that may come to mind is workers’ compensation. In New York State, virtually all businesses are required to carry workers’ compensation...

Assumption of Risk in Personal Injury Lawsuits No matter how good your judgment is or how much caution you take in your actions, you understand that there is some risk involved in just about everything you do—engaging with life would be impossible otherwise. However,...