New York Personal Injury Lawyer in Elmira

 

Law Office of 
Charles E. Andersen

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Accidents at Intersections

 

Duties of Motorist where stop sign missing or obscured

 

Close following

 

Sudden stopping

 

Skidding

 

Car leaving the road

 

Extenuating circumstances

 

Child crossings

 

Speed limits

 

Duty of Maintenance

 

Pedestrian Crossing Street

 

Responsibility for drivers actions

 

Double parked vehicles

 

Unlicensed Drivers

 

Safety Belt Defense

 

Infants Comparative Negligence

 

Mentally Deficient Plaintiff

 

General Damages

 

90/180 day rule

 

Pain and Suffering

 

Aggravation and activation of injuries

 

Structured judgments

 

Non-Recourse Funding

 

Duty of Driver on Through Highway

 

Turning Across Traffic

 

Violating the Rules of the Road

 

 

 

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Seat Belt Defense

      

         Plaintiff's failure to use a safety belt may affect the outcome of a case. Plaintiff may not recover for injuries that the use of an available and operational seatbelt would have prevented. Spier v. Barker, 35 N.Y.2d 444, 363 N.Y.S.2d 916 (1974). The seatbelt defense requires that functioning seatbelts must have been available to the plaintiff. DiMauro v. Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority, 105 A.D.2d 236, 483 N.Y.S.2d 383 (Second Dept. 1984), citing Spier. VTL §383 requires seatbelts in all vehicles manufactured after June 30, 1964 and sold in New York. Whether, at the time of the accident, seatbelts were installed, working and available is a question of fact.

 

Seatbelt Charge The defendant claims that some or all of the plaintiff's claimed injuries were caused by (his, her) failure to use an available seatbelt and that plaintiff cannot recover for those injuries. The defendant has the burden of proving that some or all of the plaintiff's injuries were caused by (his, her) failure to use an available seatbelt. If you find that plaintiff failed to use an available seatbelt and that some or all of the plaintiff's injuries resulted from (his, her) failure to use the seatbelt, you may not make any award for those injuries you find (he, she) sustained because of such failure to use the seatbelt.... New York Pattern Jury Instructions - Civil, Volume 1A, Third Edition, Unified Court System, 1997, published by West Group. Practice Tip: In many older vehicles, only lap belts are available in the rear seats. There is a substantial body of literature and research documenting the fact that wearing just a lap belt often causes more severe injuries or death than going without. If this is the structure of your case, retain a good seatbelt expert and you will be able to overcome this defense.

 

     

How I can help you recover:

 

     I am an experienced New York lawyer who has the time to aggressively pursue a personal injury case on your behalf. By knowing the law, we know who's right and who's wrong

 

          Please call our office now if an insurer is refusing to cover your medical bills, compensate you for loss or diminution in earning capacity or cover the collateral costs of your injury.  

 

          Our office may also be able to help you recover for pain and suffering if you meet the threshold requirement for " serious personal injury " to sue under New York's  "No Fault" automobile statue. This means more than temporary injury and disability, however it does not mean that your injury must be disabling. A permanent scare, or permanent painful condition resulting from damages to joints or ligaments is sufficient to meet this threshold even though you are not disabled or out of work.

 

      

 

     

 

Pedestrian crossing street Responsibilities for drivers actions double parked vehicles
unlicensed drivers  

No fees unless you win

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auto Accident Facts

Thousands of innocent people per year are injured in car accidents as a result of the careless driving of others. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, nearly 43,000 people died in car accidents in 2002. More than one-quarter of Americans have been involved in a car accident in the last five years.

Every 13 minutes, there is a death caused by a motor vehicle accident. Car accidents claim our very youngest and our very oldest populations. Americans from the ages of 1-33 are more likely to die from a car accident than from anything else. On the other side of the spectrum, elderly adults aged 75 and up are most affected by motor vehicle crashes.

Life Insurance & Auto Accidents

Most don't even have a life insurance policy that could pay for funeral expenses if the unthinkable happened. Considering the prevalence of auto accidents, it is important that automobile drivers educate themselves concerning auto accidents and the legal options that exist should an accident occur.

 

 

Free Consultation

Reasonable rates

 

 

607-734-2917

(Elmira)

 

What's my case worth?

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Infants comparative negligence mentally deficient plaintiff General Damages
   

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Elmira, NY 14901
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