Compensation Lawyers In New York
New York Injury Lawyer Is Your Best Option To Seek Compensation
By Hadiya Robins
Injuries are one aspect of life that no one likes to encounter, but one cannot help it if suddenly they have to face an injury of any kind. Many a times, the injury that occurs to an individual may not be due to any fault of his or hers. In such a condition, a person is entitled for compensation from the other party. People, who feel that they have been a victim, can take the help of law to seek compensation of any kind. Injury lawyers are specialized lawyers, who help those people that are looking forward to claim compensation from the injury that they suffered.
If you are a resident of New York, you have the option of choosing a lawyer who is an expert in his field. Well, you are fighting a legal case to get compensation and you will surely like to hire the best in business. No one files a case with the intention of losing it, so you must make sure that you take all the measures which will ensure that you will win. Injury can be of any kind and an injury lawyer in New York can help you in getting compensation from injuries of any kind for which a person is liable to claim compensation.
The law has made fair provisions for a person to seek compensation from the injury that has hampered him from doing his daily works. Chances are there that you can also face similar condition sometime, so you must be prepared. Being prepared and prepared really well is the best means for you to deal with this condition. Injury is not something about the occurrence of which you can have a prior knowledge. So if you have finally decided to hire the services of a New York injury lawyer, make sure that you hire the services of the best lawyer operating in your area.
Law differs from state to state, so ensure that the lawyer you want to hire has the proper knowledge about the rules in New York. It is better to try out some lawyers and then decide who is best to do the work for you. Do not settle for the first injury lawyer that you come across to do the work you. The internet is a good source for you to find out information about an injury lawyer in New York. If possible check out the tack record of the lawyer and find out his success rate. Surely you will want to hire the services of a lawyer who has the highest achievement rate in this field.
There are several injuries for which a person can look for reimbursement. Some of the injuries are physical injury that may occur at your workplace, injuries that occur due to auto accidents, injuries that occur due to medical negligence and medical malpractice. Mostly, injury compensation is settled out of court. Sometimes it can happen that the guilty party is willing to pay out a higher sum of money to the aggrieved person, just to save himself from any kind of negative publicity.
So there are many things that can work positively for a person, if they hire the services of a good injury lawyer. Make sure that you talk with your lawyer regarding all the different aspects of the legal proceedings. You will surely not want to be in the dark about anything related to your looking for of compensation from any person.
March 1, 2011
4:13 pm
‘Protect jailed terrorists, or risk Muslim backlash’ warns lawyer?
The London lawyer representing the injured bomber Dhiren Barot today warns that terrorist convicts are being targeted by other inmates in British jails. And she predicts a Muslim ‘backlash’.
Barot is a Muslim convert from London who was jailed for life last year for planning mass murder in London and New York with explosive-filled limousines and a radioactive ‘dirty’ bomb.
Apparently because he has been injured in prison he is expected to make a ‘substantial compensation claim’.
His lawyer, Muddassar Arani has complained that Muslim prisoners in Durham’s Frankland prison are in particular danger: ‘There are not that many Muslim prisoners there, and there is safety in numbers…I don’t understand why they can’t put them in a separate wing where they can be protected.’
What do you think; are prisons failing in duty to ‘protect’ jailed terrorists?
Source: today’s London Evening Standard
March 20, 2011
8:08 pm
A question about New York State Workers Compensation?
HELP! Workers Comp hearing question? I’m at MMI and my hearing is tomorrow.?
I just spoke with my lawyer. My hearing is tomorrow and both the IME doctor and my doctor are saying two different things.
The IME doctor says that I am a Scheduled Loss of Use and my doctor is saying that I am a permanent partial classification.
The lawyer said that tomorrow they will stop my payments and have to do an “over the phone” deposition of both doctors to come to a conclusion.
He also said that “classification” is usually a back injury and so he doubts that the judge will rule in favor of the classification which will end up with me having no money whatsoever after they deduct what I was already given.
SO THESE ARE MY QUESTIONS:
How can my doctor put me at a permanent partial classification if this is not usually given for arms, and how can I fight to get it???
I want compensation for all the money I haven’t been able to recieve at my former job due to this injury.
Will my lawyer fight for me??? Is there something else I can do to help my case???
Also, how can they stop my payments while I am in litigation before the judge makes a decision?
FYI, this is for injuries to both arms. They have both been operated on for tedonitis, tennis elbow and I have a permanent partial disability.
Thanks all who answer and are able to help.
April 3, 2011
4:41 pm
The real disgrace is that thy will sue for substantial damages – and win.
June 23, 2011
2:18 am
Each state is different, however, my state is set up like the laws of New York ( workers compensation ): I will explain this the best that I can.
The IME is paid for by Workers Compensation, so the IME is on Workers Compensations side. The IME should have issued a percentage of your loss.
Your doctor should also issue a percentage of loss, not just a permanent partial classification. They both, your doctor AND the IME should write down a percentage of loss of your injury. The judge will decide tomorrow of what percentage loss you actually have.
Now, with that being said : Lets say you have a 5% loss ( just used as example ) you will get 5 months of payments. A check will be sent to you every month ( one check ) for 5 months. You will only get a portion of the money on the 5th month.
I hope you get this figured out….Workers Compensation will stick it up your a….. if you let them. Hopefully you have a good lawyer and hopefully your doctor will stand up for you when you need them to testify.
June 23, 2011
8:47 pm
Can Future History Be Informed in Any Way by Past History re Wall Street Banks?
Is there anything we should learn from the Banking Crisis in NYC?
I’ll offer three possibilities very briefly, and would appreciate your comments on those, and all your other respectful, germaine, serious comments.
#1 Big Banks are a bad idea
This seems to me unlikely to be what we should learn. If the rest of the world had Big Banks, and we had none, it would put USA at a serious disadvantage in world markets.
#2 Laissez-Faire Capitalism applied to Big Banks is a bad idea.
This seems plausible as a possible lesson we might learn. I’m talking here about the Capitalism wanted by Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Phil Gramm, Milton Friedman, CATO Institute, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ayn Rand, and the Deregulatory Zealots. We might decide that for big banks there’s no capitalism like regulated capitalism, and there really should be regulators, and they really should do their jobs, not just watch porn on the internet (like SEC regulators did).
#3 Government of Laws and not of Men needs to be Moderated to a Degree for Big Banks.
We already have begun to explore what “Government of Men” would be like in the person of Ken Feinberg who did a creditable job on the compensation of the 9/11 victims, and on employee compensation at the Big Banks, and most recently on the Gulf Oil spill victims. When Ken gets commissioned by the AG he has unfettered discretion and can’t be fired by the AG or anyone else. It’s absolute power. It’s the government of men (and not of laws).
This approach may be what’s needed on Wall Street and throughout the financial industry. The big banks and mortgage companies take every new law, assign 1000 teams of lawyers to it, broken down by sections, and within 6 to 8 weeks they find 10,000 ways to completely avoid, circumvent, and engineer around the law so it has absolutely no impact on them apart from minor shifts in their business model.
The way this could stop is if the USA had some sort of Star Chamber Magistrate in charge of monitoring what goes on in the financial industry and issuing injunctions to put an instant stop to sleazy, smarmy, rotten, unacceptable conduct as soon as it appears. These injunctions would not be based on violations of law, they would be based on the unfettered discretion of the Star Chamber Magistrate. Whatever he/she says all players in the industry have to do, or be closed down, by the full force of the US government. Rule of men sometimes works when rule of law fails. Lincoln knew this. He knew that he had to declare Martial Law and he had to be the source of injunctions that could not be disobeyed. We may need something like Martial law to control Wall Street, Payday Lenders, and the Mortgage industry. 2000 page bills out of Congress are extremely unlikely to have any impact whatsoever. Washington writes 2000 pages, New York assigns 1000 lawyers, every lawyer gets 2 pages, and comes up with 200 ways to work around the law, in about 12 weeks, so the Big Doorstop mostly just gives sore backs to Law Library employees — it has no actual effect on the financial industry, or on the Evil-Doers therein (except for Skilling, who now says he should get out of jail, and Lloyd Blankfein who walks down Park Avenue giving everybody raspberries and bronx cheers and yelling — Look, I’m not in jail!).
In ancient Egypt, a very conservative culture, if three of the Great pyramids at Giza suddenly fell over and crushed a few hundred thousand people, somebody in the Phahrao’s office would probabaly have asked, “Are we doing anything wrong, should we consider making some changes in how we do business?” I’m just asking —- How about us — is there anything we should learn from our Economic Collapse on Wall Street?
To Caudex:
You make excellent points. My question was very carefully written. It calls for thoughts about what we might do going forward. It is not in any way related to the Bailouts, which seem to be the topic of your answer.
I welcome all intelligent remarks. Caudex has made some intelligent remarks, so I’m not griping.
But why not, you bright folks, like Caudex, take a few seconds to read my question, and then answer it in its own terms.
The question contain three possibilities. The third one is the most radical and the most serious. Took a lot of work to figure it out. Why not at least comment on that, instead of just posting the macro you have stored on the bailouts, which I approve of, and have no problem with, so they are not the topic of my question.
But on that subject, how in heck could AIG’s stock be worth $40 per share instead of zero when it owes $380 Billion to the US taxpayers? What are its assets? Is Wall Street completely crazy? Who audits AIG?
July 3, 2011
11:21 pm
The problem is one of human nature: when all is going well, why worry about what might go wrong? On a more sympathetic note, it is very difficult to justify making economic changes that are detrimental in the short term when you don’t know exactly when the expected crash will come. If changes are implemented, people don’t see any positives from them, because they don’t see the crash that has been avoided. This then leads to people wanting the changes made to be undone – when there is no risk of things going wrong, why keep measures in place against them when by removing them you could make a quick buck?
Put it this way: 10 years ago, would you have suggested that the banks would be more careful when their risks were making western economies enormous gains? The only time you can say yes is when you KNOW that a global recession would come in the relative short term. Even with that knowledge, you might decide to wait five or six years before changing anything to get the extra financial benefit. Humanity is driven by greed, whether you like it or not, which is why we will always be at risk of massive economic recession – without risk, we can’t gain that extra bit of cash in the good years. 15 years of gain followed by 5 of massive hardship is, it would seem, preferable to 20 years of stability without chance of genuine wealth.
July 17, 2011
10:48 pm
Money Matters, even if you don’t like the Compound Taxing that results from the accrual system
July 18, 2011
8:45 pm
Is there anything we should learn from the Banking Crisis in NYC?
I’ll offer three possibilities very briefly, and would appreciate your comments on those, and all your other respectful, germaine, serious comments.
#1 Big Banks are a bad idea
This seems to me unlikely to be what we should learn. If the rest of the world had Big Banks, and we had none, it would put USA at a serious disadvantage in world markets.
#2 Laissez-Faire Capitalism applied to Big Banks is a bad idea.
This seems plausible as a possible lesson we might learn. I’m talking here about the Capitalism wanted by Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Phil Gramm, Milton Friedman, CATO Institute, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ayn Rand, and the Deregulatory Zealots. We might decide that for big banks there’s no capitalism like regulated capitalism, and there really should be regulators, and they really should do their jobs, not just watch porn on the internet (like SEC regulators did).
#3 Government of Laws and not of Men needs to be Moderated to a Degree for Big Banks.
We already have begun to explore what “Government of Men” would be like in the person of Ken Feinberg who did a creditable job on the compensation of the 9/11 victims, and on employee compensation at the Big Banks, and most recently on the Gulf Oil spill victims. When Ken gets commissioned by the AG he has unfettered discretion and can’t be fired by the AG or anyone else. It’s absolute power. It’s the government of men (and not of laws).
This approach may be what’s needed on Wall Street and throughout the financial industry. The big banks and mortgage companies take every new law, assign 1000 teams of lawyers to it, broken down by sections, and within 6 to 8 weeks they find 10,000 ways to completely avoid, circumvent, and engineer around the law so it has absolutely no impact on them apart from minor shifts in their business model.
The way this could stop is if the USA had some sort of Star Chamber Magistrate in charge of monitoring what goes on in the financial industry and issuing injunctions to put an instant stop to sleazy, smarmy, rotten, unacceptable conduct as soon as it appears. These injunctions would not be based on violations of law, they would be based on the unfettered discretion of the Star Chamber Magistrate. Whatever he/she says all players in the industry have to do, or be closed down, by the full force of the US government. Rule of men sometimes works when rule of law fails. Lincoln knew this. He knew that he had to declare Martial Law and he had to be the source of injunctions that could not be disobeyed. We may need something like Martial law to control Wall Street, Payday Lenders, and the Mortgage industry. 2000 page bills out of Congress are extremely unlikely to have any impact whatsoever. Washington writes 2000 pages, New York assigns 1000 lawyers, every lawyer gets 2 pages, and comes up with 200 ways to work around the law, in about 12 weeks, so the Big Doorstop mostly just gives sore backs to Law Library employees — it has no actual effect on the financial industry, or on the Evil-Doers therein (except for Skilling, who now says he should get out of jail, and Lloyd Blankfein who walks down Park Avenue giving everybody raspberries and bronx cheers and yelling — Look, I’m not in jail!).
In ancient Egypt, a very conservative culture, if three of the Great pyramids at Giza suddenly fell over and crushed a few hundred thousand people, somebody in the Phahrao’s office would probabaly have asked, “Are we doing anything wrong, should we consider making some changes in how we do business?” I’m just asking —- How about us — is there anything we should learn from our Economic Collapse on Wall Street?
July 29, 2011
5:47 am
there is no reason why you cannot drop the case but it will cost you any legal fees already expended by the lawyer.
depending on the type of injury you received you need to keep in mind that not all problems are immediately obvious and some may take a while to show up and if they do you have no rights whatsoever.
i can’t help but wonder why you would go and sign all the paperwork etc and now decide to drop the case – i hope you are not just receiving a payout from your employer or threats of any sort about keeping your job (blackmail), or conned into this, etc. remember you are not suing an individual or the people/company, accidents happen and that is why all companies take out workers compensation insurance to cover such mishaps.
discuss the matter with your lawyer who will be able to tell you what your chances are of success, providing you told the truth, and be guided by their advice.
please think carefully before you go down this road.
good luck with whichever decision you make.
July 29, 2011
8:09 pm
WORKERS COMPENSATION CASE??? HELP?
I live in NEW YORK. I got injured at work. I went to my lawyer and signed paperwork to follow a lawsuit but now I do not want to go through it. Is there any way to close the case and drop the charges even though I signed paperwork to follow a lawsuit? Thanks for your help.