FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: April 24, 2017 If you’ve been in an accident with a truck, chances are you’ve experienced significant personal injury and damage to your vehicle. Commercial trucks are large […]
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FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: March 30, 2017 Last month, we asked the question whether millennials were the worst drivers. According to a recent AAA survey, millennials did admit to some pretty hazardous
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FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: March 2, 2017 Last year Tesla made headlines when a man in Florida died in a car accident with a semi-truck while operating one of their vehicles with
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FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: February 18, 2017 A recent AAA survey says that they might be. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety surveyed 2,511 licensed drivers from August 26 to September 6, and
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Car Accidents: This 4th Dept. appeals court decision touches on a few different things. Â First, relying upon an expert to make your case out when the expert’s opinion is speculative in nature, usually will not end well. Â Second, the plaintiff attempted to rely upon the Noseworthy doctrine. Â The Noseworthy doctrine derives from the case
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In trip and fall cases, defendant property owners will generally not be held liable where a trip is caused by a trivial defect which is in plain sight. Â What exactly is a trivial defect and how does the court system decide motions to dismiss lawsuits based upon the trivial defect defense? Â The following Second Department
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As a New York personal injury lawyer who has been handling serious injury cases stemming from auto accidents for 37 years, I am especially aware of the epidemic of distracted driving that brings many new clients to my firm. It’s very easy to recognize when drivers are texting and driving. The tell-tale signs of that activity are: the
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FREE consultations by telephone or by internet video conferencing are now available. Fishkill Injury Attorney Serving Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Lagrangeville and Nearby Areas of Hudson Valley Posted: June 18, 2016 Shared from the Mid Hudson Valley, NY Patch By Lanning Taliaferro (Patch Staff) – June 18, 2016 4:39 pm ET Fatal Crash on I-84 Fishkill,
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All personal injury lawyers will provide a free consultation as part of the process of signing up new clients. Most potential clients want to know just how much their personal injury claim is worth and will, in most cases, ask the question before they sign a retainer agreement. The question presents ethical considerations for lawyers.
There is an presumption in the law that when someone driving a motor vehicle strikes a vehicle in front of them, that they were negligent in doing so. This presumption can be refuted by the defendant driver by showing that there is a reasonable alternative explanation for the hit-in-the rear accident. For example, if the
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