Relevant & Important Information About Personal Injury Law So You Can Be In The Know
Workers' compensation is designed to help workers who are injured on the job or become ill with an occupational disease that develops during the course of their employment. But what can you do when your workers' compensation benefits don't fully cover your expenses?
Smiley & Smiley, LLP, assists victims of mass transit accidents. The experienced injury attorneys represent people injured in New York City and the surrounding areas.
Courts across the country have returned multimillion verdicts against manufacturers in asbestos-related illness cases. Such manufacturers have been culpable in exposing individuals and workers to asbestos fumes. Also, the severity of the exposure has led to severe and sometimes fatal illness for victims.
If you were injured by falling from a ladder, falling from a roof, falling through an unmarked opening in a floor under construction or falling from a "cherry picker" truck, you ought to talk to a lawyer sooner rather than later. Do not assume that your only sources of compensation after a fall injury will be your health insurance and workers' compensation benefits.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public corporation handling public transportation in 12 counties in New York and two counties in Connecticut. The MTA carries over 11 million passengers each weekday through various transportation facilities that include:
With no time to prepare, your entire world may have been turned upside down, all from someone else's negligent actions. The last thing you should have to deal with is calls from insurance adjusters. At Smiley & Smiley, LLP, we want to help you pick up the pieces after suffering the loss of your loved one in a pedestrian accident.
Slip-and-fall accidents sometimes result in bumps and bruises — and are no fun, to be sure, but often, someone who has fallen can heal and recover. In other slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall accidents, clients suffer severe injuries resulting in lasting disabilities.
There are multiple reasons for why skiing or snowboarding accidents occur. These can simply involve collisions with other skiers. In other instances, chairlift accidents occur due to dangerous or faulty equipment. Sometimes the operators of ski slopes fail to adequately warn of hazards or properly mark boundaries to protect skiers or snowboarders from injury. And while skiing and snowboarding are recreational activities, the injuries that result from accidents can be serious and even fatal.
After your newborn baby or young child has been diagnosed with a birth injury, you deserve answers to your pressing questions. How and why did this happen? What kinds of special needs will your child have? How will treatments, therapy and special accommodations be covered? Before moving forward, you have a right to know who was responsible, such as:
If you were injured on a sidewalk outside of a New York City building, it is helpful to know that the property owner whose property abuts the sidewalk is responsible for maintenance of that sidewalk. This means that your losses may be compensated for by the property owner if you tripped and fell or slipped and fell for any of these reasons on a New York City sidewalk:
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As one of the country’s pre-eminent personal injury law firms, Smiley & Smiley LLP has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in combined compensation for clients since its founding more than 55 years ago.
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