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Last Entry: May 20, 2010 at 08:51:23

NY Accident Lawyer Offers Do?s & Don?ts for Insurance Medical Exams (IME)

Posted on May 20, 2010
In a previous post here on the NY Injury Law Blog, I explained the truth about ?Independent? Medical Examination (IME) with the insurance company?s doctor. In the original post: “IME Doctors Change Diagnoses for Insurance Company Exams”, I explained how some doctors deliver the diagnoses that the insurance companies want – because the insurance companies [...

Rear-Ending Driver Causes Major Collision on Route 86 in Horseheads

Posted on May 19, 2010
The most common type of accident case we handle at the Ziff Law Firm is the rear-end collision. These accidents usually occur because the driver who causes the accident is either not paying proper attention (i.e. talking on their cell phone, adjusting the radio, doing their nails?no kidding!) or unsafe driving (i...

NY and PA Motorcycle Attorney Adam Gee Teaches Motorcycle Law 101 Class on Avvo.com

Posted on May 11, 2010
Ziff Law Firm Attorney Adam Gee is developing quite a name for himself in the area of motorcycle law. Adam handles motorcycle cases from all over New York and Pennsylvania, not just in the firm’s headquarters in Elmira (Chemung County). On any given day, Adam could be in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Scranton/Wilkes Barre, Williamsport [...

NY Accident Lawyer (and Father of 3 Teens!) Applauds Proposed Federal Legislation

Posted on April 29, 2010
My three teens are going to kill me, but I am strongly in favor of proposed new legislation by NY Senator Gillibrand. It would create a federal law to require all 50 states to implement a Graduated Drivers License program, phasing in unlimited drivers licenses...

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Elmira Accident Attorney Warns: No Smart Phones in the Jury Room!

Posted on April 22, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The use of smart phones grows everyday. What used to be the size of a brick (with about the same reception) is now smaller than a wallet and capable of handling multiple e-mail accounts, surfing the web, performing google searches, browsing documents and even doing legal research...

New York Accident Lawyer Explains Why Pursuing a Big Judgment May NOT Be a Good Idea

Posted on April 15, 2010
You would think if you are badly hurt in a car accident, it would make sense for you to pursue a BIG judgment against the driver who hit you, right? Not necessarily… A recent dialogue with a client got me thinking about how backwards it may seem to folks when I tell them that I [...

5 Important Signs That a Debt Collector Has Gone Too Far

Posted on April 14, 2010
My colleague Matt Hughson, a bankruptcy and real estate attorney with the Ziff Law Firm, recently posted a guest posts on his blog, the NY Bankruptcy Law Blog, by Sergei Lemberg, a Stamford, Connecticut, attorney and consumer advocate. I wanted to share Sergei’s post on the NY Injury Law Blog as well, because although it [...

A Look Back at a Year of Honoring Veterans: ZiffLaw Promotion Concludes with Jackals? Hockey Season

Posted on April 12, 2010
Now that the Jackals regular season has drawn to an end, our ZiffLaw Veteran of the Game promotion must also sadly draw to its conclusion. We want to thank the many veterans, and their proud families and friends, who participated in this promotion. I can?t tell you how nice it was to meet these veterans [...

Record Upstate NY Settlement in Albany Medical Malpractice Case

Posted on April 10, 2010
I wanted to offer my congratulations to attorney John Powers for a record settlement in a tragic medical malpractice case. John is an excellent Albany attorney with whom I have had the pleasure of working on several cases. The Albany Times-Union carried the story, “$5...

Elmira Motorcycle Lawyer Announces New Community for Bikers!

Posted on April 01, 2010
Are you a biker or thinking of becoming one? Interested in conversing with other bikers, learning about group rides, sharing pictures and stories, or looking to give or get advice on a mechanical issue? Well, you are in luck! There is a new resource for bikers in the Twin Tiers which is much more personal and [...

NYS Trial Lawyers Association President Comments on Toyota, Tort Reform and the Courts

Posted on March 17, 2010
Richard Binko, Esq., a lawyer from Cheektowaga, NY and the current President of the NYS Trial Lawyers Association, wrote a commentary piece that was published in the Syracuse Post Standard on March 15, 2010. The online version of that article can be found here...

Who Pays for the Damage to My Car in NY Car Accidents? NY Accident Attorney Answers this question?

Posted on March 17, 2010
I hate to say it, but car damage involving collisions, deer, snow and ice, floods, theft, vandalism, or other unfortunate events is much more common than any of us wish. No one wants their car crashed, but since car damage tends to be an inevitable fact of car ownership, you need [...

TOWANDA, PENNSYLVANIA ACCIDENT ON NATURAL GAS RIG HIGHLIGHTS SAFETY CONCERNS

Posted on March 12, 2010
The Elmira Star Gazette is reporting a breaking news story regarding a death on a natural gas site. Reports say Greg Allen Henry, a 31-year-old worker, died yesterday. No related posts.

NY & PA Malpractice Attorney Shares Surprising Truth about Tort Reform

Posted on March 08, 2010
The Elmira Star-Gazette recently published a letter written by my cousin Pat O?Donnell. Although I agree with my cousin on many matters, there are a few on which we differ. One subject on which our opinions vary is tort reform and the cost of health care in America...

Be Careful When Driving Your Killing Machine ? AKA Your CAR!

Posted on March 08, 2010
I have handled many tragic cases involving pedestrians struck by cars. As might be expected when a car weighing thousands of runs over a fragile human body, death or multiple traumatic injuries are common. A recent pedestrian fatality (the WETM story, “Man Hit by Car Dies” is pasted below) not two miles from my own [...

NY Malpractice Lawyer Discusses Dangerous Drug Avandia Causing Heart Attacks; Why Drug Manufacturers Should Just Come Clean

Posted on March 05, 2010
When will these drug manufacturers learn that it is NOT acceptable to keep distributing a drug they KNOW is causing injury and death? Haven?t they learned anything from the asbestos cases, the Vioxx cases, the Levaquin cases? The bottom line is that they will NOT be able to conceal damaging information forever...

Want to Save Your Teenager?s Life? Limit the Number of Kids in The Car

Posted on March 04, 2010
As I have blogged many times before, there is nothing more tragic than the death of a child. And with three teenagers myself, I know the fear that creeps in to every parent?s heart every time they watch their kid walk out the door with the keys to the family car...

NY Accident Lawyer Praises New Driving Law to Protect Teens on the Road

Posted on February 26, 2010
As a NY accident lawyer, I can tell you that there is nothing more difficult than to sit with parents who have lost a child in a fatal car crash. Often these cases involve a teen driver who didn’t have the experience or the maturity to safely drive a car...

Information Lawyers NEED to Know: Ziff Law to Host CLE Seminar on Liens, Set-Asides and Special-Needs Trusts

Posted on February 25, 2010
The Ziff Law Firm has planned an important seminar for legal professionals. The firm will host Liens, Set-Asides and Special Needs Trusts, noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, March 5 at the Ziff offices, 303 William Street in Elmira. The seminar will be presented by Brett Newman, managing partner of Lien Resolution Group, and Ziff Law?s Christina [...

NY Malpractice Lawyer Explains Difficulty of Determining the Time Limits to Bring a Claim

Posted on February 25, 2010
I recently had an e-mail from a concerned personal injury victim about his case. The writer is not a client of mine, but he was hoping I could give him some advice about the statute of limitations on legal malpractice claims. I told him that the time limit to bring a legal malpractice claim in NY [...

NY Accident Lawyer Warns Other NY Injury Attorneys About Internet Scam Targeting Injury Law Firms

Posted on February 22, 2010
“If it is too good to be true, it is too good to be true.” I ALWAYS keep that old saying in mind when considering any aspect of my personal injury or malpractice cases. Over the years, being extremely suspicious of something that sounds too good to be true has saved my bacon more times than [...

NY Workers? Comp Lawyer Explains Why He Probably Will Take Your Work Related Athletic Injury Comp Case

Posted on February 19, 2010
Attorney Jim Reed recently posted a very informative blog about school-sports injuries at “NY Accident Lawyer Explains Why He Probably Won’t Take Your School Sports Injury Case.” However, if you’re injured while participating in work-related athletic activity you may very well have a Workers’ Compensation case...

NY Accident Lawyer Explains Why He Probably WON?T Take Your School Sports Injury Case

Posted on February 17, 2010
The ?assumption of risk" doctrine makes it difficult for personal injury attorneys to win school sports injury cases. This doctrine contends that people who are voluntarily engaging in a sport assume the risk of the types of injuries that are inherent in that sport - therefore they cannot recover for those injuries...

NY Workers Comp Attorney Makes the Carrier Pay for Filing Frivolous Appeal

Posted on February 11, 2010
Got a terrific Board Panel decision today that will make my client happy and an insurance company and its lawyers unhappy. A unanimous Board Panel penalized the insurance company $500 for filing a frivolous appeal. That $500 is paid to my client. There are a couple of things about this Board Panel decision that make it particularly sweet...

Horseheads Man Killed In Scaffold Fall in Lansing

Posted on January 27, 2010
Our hearts go out to the family of local builder, John Roy from Horseheads, NY, who died after falling from a scaffold while building a house in Lansing, NY. John had an excellent local reputation and I fondly remember time spent talking with him years ago when I was building my own home...

CLARIFICATION: Good News for NY Workers? Compensation Claimants and Physicians

Posted on January 27, 2010
There was an inaccurate statement in my blog post yesterday “Good News for NY Workers? Compensation Claimants and Physicians.” In my rush to get that information out, I didn?t read the Board?s release as closely as I should have and I apologize for that...

Good News for NY Workers? Compensation Claimants and Physicians

Posted on January 26, 2010
It’s not news to most New York Workers’ Compensation claimants and certainly not news to physicians and other health care providers that the Workers’ Compensation Board has been imposing increasingly rigorous paperwork requirements on providers without a commensurate increase in the amount providers can charge and the fee schedule was already set at a rate [...

Injury Exam Scam: Doctors Deliver Diagnoses to Keep Getting Paid by Insurance Companies

Posted on January 22, 2010
“A World of Hurt” is right. Last April, the New York Times ran an in-depth expose of the New York State workers’ compensation system. The articles and associated videos and resources ran under the umbrella title, “A World of Hurt...

Itching to Sue After a NY Car Accident? 7 Reasons A Lawsuit May Not Suit You

Posted on January 21, 2010
In the aftermath of a NY auto accident you may think a lawsuit is the best means of achieving justice and receiving just compensation. Don’t be shocked to hear this from a lawyer, but there may be some compelling reasons NOT to bring a lawsuit. I’ve been receiving the New York Injury Times online newsletter by [...

Ziff Attorney Jim Reed Chosen Again For NY State Judicial Election Qualification Commission

Posted on January 20, 2010
Congratulations are in order for my colleague Jim Reed, managing partner of the Ziff Law Firm. Jim, who is a busy guy with his practice and legal blogs, was just reappointed to serve on the New York state Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission...

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