How to Protect Your Legal Rights After a Bike Accident in Queens: A Step-by-Step Guide
What to Do After a Bike Accident: A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Your Legal Rights Every day, Queen’s bicyclists face major safety challenges posed by all the speeding cars, trucks, and motorcycles. The distracted drivers of these vehicles also tend to ignore traffic signals, bike lane restrictions, and the need to yield to others. During […]
New York Bus Accident Liability: Who Can You Sue?
Traveling by bus in New York City can help minimize problems with traffic, parking, and long-distance walks. Yet bus travel can still present special challenges, especially when buses run behind schedule or when poorly trained drivers are behind the wheel. Once buses collide with pedestrians, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and other vehicles, catastrophic results can unfold. After […]
Scaffolding Accidents: Who Is Responsible and What Can You Do?
Compensation for Victims of Trip and Fall Accidents at Brooklyn Construction Sites While most slips, trips, and falls on construction sites involve workers falling from scaffolding or other high places, other deadly “falls” may simply involve tools and equipment falling and seriously hurting or even killing someone. At present, Brooklyn construction workers keep suffering too […]
What is the liability for trench collapse accidents at construction sites and who can be held responsible?
The year 2022 proved unusually catastrophic for trench workers on American construction sites. By late November, thirty-five deaths had already occurred. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) immediately shared this data with the public. That figure was twice as high as the previous year’s total of seventeen (17) trench-related fatalities. Contact our team […]
Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injuries Often Need Treatment for Sleep Disorders
Although serious head injuries occur in many ways, our NYC traumatic brain injury attorneys often meet clients who have just survived a pedestrian accident, a major workplace fall, or a motor vehicle collision. Once we accept new cases, we fight hard to win each lawsuit so clients can afford all the medical care they require […]
EP 09 S 08: Can You Guess the TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) Jury Verdict or Settlement ?
A deep dive into recent NY verdicts & settlements for Traumatic Brain Injury lawsuits in premises liability, car accidents, construction accidents, and medical malpractice. We also discuss mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and post concussive syndrome verdicts. Pick Your Favorite Channel: Apple Podcast | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS [table-of-content] Full Transcript […]
What Are Your Legal Rights After a Ceiling Collapse in the Bronx
There are few tenant events more shocking than a sudden Bronx ceiling collapse. While some may see or hear early signs of trouble, few people expect such a terrible crisis to unfold. Far too often, careless landlords negligently fail to make timely repairs. They may also hire poorly trained maintenance workers to fix the problems […]
How Brain Injuries Can Affect Adults & Children
Although medical definitions can vary slightly, most sources agree that acquired brain injuries are unrelated to birth trauma and congenital, hereditary, or degenerative causes. And these types of injuries occurring after birth affect how the brain’s neurons (nerve cells) perform their work as the “fundamental units” of the brain and central nervous system. Contact our […]
EP 08 S 08: Last Week Tonight October Episode – Car Accident, Tbi, Spinal Fusion.
In today’s episode I answer questions about car accident, truck accident, spinal fusion, traumatic brain injuries etc… Pick Your Favorite Channel: Apple Podcast | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS [table-of-content] Full Transcript Hi everybody, this is Arkady Frehktman in New York City, personal injury trial attorney, and this is Last Week […]
Helping Injured Construction Workers Recover and Transition After A Construction Accidents
Our law firm often meets injured construction workers who have suffered bad falls due to unstable scaffolding or faulty ladders. Still others request our help while recovering from serious injuries caused by falling objects on their construction sites. Although some workers do incur catastrophic injuries, many clients experience remarkable recoveries after undergoing surgeries and targeted […]