Garden City Personal Injury Lawyer

How Much Time do You Have to File a Personal Injury Lawsuit in Garden City?

How long you have to file your lawsuit depends on the specifics of your situation. For instance, car accident claimants have a different filing deadline than those affected by medical malpractice. Here are some deadlines that may apply to your situation:

• You generally have three years to file a car accident lawsuit, per CVP §214(4)
• You typically have a three-year deadline to file a slip and fall accident lawsuit, according to CVP §214(5).
• You could have two years and six months to file a medical malpractice lawsuit, per CVP §214-A.
• You generally have two years from the date of your loved one’s passing to file a wrongful death lawsuit, according to EPT §5-4.1.

Please do not wait too long to contact us. Our state gives you a limited amount of time to file a personal injury claim or wrongful death lawsuit. The American Bar Association (ABA) warns that you can forever lose the right to hold the careless party accountable if you miss the deadline.

How Much Does it Cost to Hire a Lawyer in Garden City, NY?

It costs you nothing upfront or out of pocket to hire our law firm. The Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe, LLP serves people on a contingency-fee basis. This arrangement allows virtually anyone, regardless of their financial standing, to hire our team. Basically:

• It costs you nothing out of your own savings to get our help.
• If we don’t win your case, you do not pay our attorney’s fees.
• We take compensation from the settlement or court award we get for you.

Combined, our team members have a collective 100 years of legal experience. We are confident in our abilities to recover damages for you and your loved ones.

What Types of Damages Can We Help You Recover?

Regardless of how you were hurt, here are some types of damages that we can seek on your behalf:

• Past and future healthcare expenses
• Pain and suffering
• Lost wages, income, bonuses, tips, and commissions
• Loss of future earning capacity
• Disability
• Disfigurement and scarring
• Loss of enjoyment of life

If you lost a loved one due to another party’s negligence, your compensable losses can include:

• Your loved one’s healthcare expenses
• Funeral expenses, including burial, cremation, and the casket
• Pain and suffering
• Loss of consortium
• Loss of parental guidance, household benefits, and income

You could qualify for other types of damages depending on the nature of your situation.

Types of Personal Injury Cases We Handle

With our many years of helping injured people, we have handled thousands of accident cases. Here are some examples of the kinds of personal injury claims we handle:

• Garden City Car Accidents
• Garden City Truck Accidents
• Garden City Bicycle or Motorcycle Accidents
• Garden City Pedestrian Accidents
• Garden City Taxi, Lyft, or Uber Accidents
• Garden City Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs)
• Garden City Construction Accidents
• Garden City Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect
• Garden City Slip and Fall Accidents
• Garden City Wrongful Death Cases

If you do not see your type of injury case on this list, do not worry. We handle other situations than those listed here.

We Have Recovered Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for our Clients

We rely on our network of resources, years of experience, and negotiating skills to seek financial recovery for our clients. Here are three of our previous successes:

• We won $1.5 million for a worker who was injured in an elevator accident.
• We secured $1.5 million for a man who required a lumbar fusion after being rear-ended.
• We won $1.2 million for the family of a child who suffered a skull fracture in a collision.

We are able to resolve many of our cases without going to court.

Get Legal Help From one of our Attorneys for Your Personal Injury Case Today

At the Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe, LLP we love to go to bat for people who get hurt because of others’ actions. We find it rewarding to fight hard to get our clients the money they need to rebuild their lives. We work tirelessly so that our clients can get all the compensation that they deserve. A personal injury lawyer serving Garden City can champion your cause and go after the negligent party on your behalf. You can call us today for a no-charge case evaluation. There is no obligation.