New York Legal Blog

If your injuries are catastrophic enough to keep you from working in the future, or significantly diminish your ability to work in the future, then you might have a loss of earnings or diminished earning capacity claim. How are those claims calculated? After all, no one can know for sure how much money you would…

Your own actions during any personal injury lawsuit will play a big role in the amount of compensation you are able to recover. Sadly, many people make major mistakes long before they get their case to a lawyer.  If you haven’t started to handle your case yet, you’re in luck. You can start taking the…

Did you know that property owners have a legal obligation to ensure that their locations provide adequate security measures to their visitors? While sometimes getting robbed, assaulted, or victimized in other ways is unavoidable, there are cases when the crime is a direct result of failing to take these measures. Failures could look like: A…

The “burden of proof” refers to the person in any legal case who is responsible for proving that the facts of that case are true. In a civil case, the “burden of proof” is generally on the plaintiff. The plaintiff must demonstrate the following are true: The defendant had a duty of care to the…