Car Accident Lawyer in Long Island, NY

Long Island is two counties with two courthouses: Supreme Court, Nassau County in Mineola and Supreme Court, Suffolk County in Riverhead. Practice, calendars, and jury expectations differ, and an attorney who regularly appears in both is worth seeking out. Long Island cases also tend to involve higher-speed collisions on the Long Island Expressway, Southern State and Northern State Parkways, and Sunrise Highway — which changes both the injury profile and the reconstruction work required.

The law is New York's no-fault framework. Under Insurance Law § 5102, your own insurer pays basic economic loss regardless of fault, but the NF-2 application generally must be filed within 30 days of the crash. Pain and suffering recovery generally requires meeting the "serious injury" threshold under § 5102(d). The limitations period is three years for personal injury (CPLR 214) and two years for wrongful death. If a county, town, village, or the State is involved — including a road-defect claim — a notice of claim within 90 days and suit within one year and 90 days generally apply, and claims against the State proceed in the Court of Claims on its own short schedule.

Compare attorneys on Nassau and Suffolk trial experience, their approach to threshold documentation, their use of accident reconstruction where liability is contested, and whether they check for SUM coverage under your own policy. Practical first steps: treat consistently, file the no-fault application, and preserve photographs. General information, not legal advice.

There is no upfront cost. New York injury attorneys work on contingency, meaning the fee is a percentage of the recovery and there is no fee without one. One-third of the net recovery is the customary arrangement in New York personal injury cases, subject to the written retainer and to court approval for any infant's settlement.

What affects the total:

• Whether the case settles before suit, in discovery, or at trial
• Case expenses — medical narratives, accident reconstruction, biomechanical experts, deposition transcripts, filing fees — and whether they are deducted before or after the fee is calculated
• Whether the defense moves for summary judgment on the serious-injury threshold
• Liens from no-fault, health insurance, Medicare or Medicaid
• Whether an underinsured motorist (SUM) claim or arbitration is required

Ask for the retainer in writing, and ask whether expenses come off before or after the fee. Our consultation is free and our referral costs nothing.

Because the same injury is worth very different amounts depending on how it is documented and who presents it — and that gap is invisible to someone choosing an attorney from an advertisement.

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• Local case experience in both Nassau and Suffolk, not New York City practice applied at a distance.
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Attorneys in Michael Brook's network consistently advise the same first step: get evaluated immediately even if you feel able to walk away, because the gap between the crash and the first medical record is the first thing the defense will point to.

Disclaimer: Michael Brook Attorney Referral is a referral service, not a law firm, and does not provide legal representation or legal advice. This information is general and is not a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney about your particular situation. No result is guaranteed.