When someone else’s carelessness or recklessness in Garden City, Long Island harms you, you have legal options. You may settle your claim and recover compensation or sue the liable party and ask the judge or jury to award you the money you deserve. Our Garden City personal injury lawyers can handle your case while you focus on healing.
Trantolo & Trantolo, LLC, has been helping accident victims fight for their rights and recover fair compensation for more than 85 years. If you suffered injuries in Garden City, we are here for you. Contact us today for a free consultation with our team.
Our Garden City Personal Injury Lawyer Handles a Wide Range of Accident and Incident Cases
When our Garden City personal injury attorneys take on a case, we must identify the liable party and collect evidence to show that they acted negligently. In general, any case where negligence occurred and caused our client’s injuries is a viable personal injury case. These cases can include:
- Car Accidents: New York car accident law is complex, but seriously injured victims can still pursue a fault-based case against a negligent driver who caused their crash under many circumstances.
- Truck Crashes: Injured truck accident victims can sue the truck driver and trucking company to recover fair compensation for their injuries, expenses, and losses.
- Motorcycle Collisions: When a careless driver causes a motorcycle accident, the motorcyclist can hold them accountable.
- Pedestrian Accidents: Drivers should be aware of pedestrians and follow all related traffic laws to prevent injuring or killing anyone on foot. Failing to do so could make them liable in a pedestrian injury accident.
- Dog Bite Injuries: Dog owners may be liable for injuries their dogs cause if they attack someone without provocation.
- Nursing Home Abuse: A nursing home owner or administrator might be liable for injuries or damages incurred by a nursing home resident due to neglect or physical, psychological, sexual, or financial abuse.
- Slip and Falls: Property owners and lessees must carefully maintain their premises to prevent guests from falling or suffering other injuries. When an accident happens, the property owner might be liable.
- Construction Accidents: New York has strict laws that protect construction workers, especially those who work on ladders or scaffolding and suffer falls. The property owner or general contractor might be liable for injuries.
- Medical Malpractice: When a doctor acts negligently, it is called malpractice. You could suffer serious injuries or even death due to medical malpractice. We can help hold the doctor, hospital, or medical group responsible.
- Product Liability: Product designers, manufacturers, and distributors have responsibilities to keep consumers safe from dangerous or defective products and could be held accountable when injuries occur.
Our firm has a dedicated team of lawyers who can help you with these and other practice areas. All you need to do is call to discuss your case, and we can see how we can help.
Our Garden City Personal Injury Lawyers Know How to Document Negligence
Negligence is the key to winning compensation in a Garden City personal injury case. Our attorneys must show negligence occurred to hold the liable party accountable for their careless, reckless, or intentional actions that hurt our client.
Four elements must exist for negligence to occur. Our attorneys understand how this presents in a wide range of injury cases, from truck accidents to dog bites to construction site falls. The four elements we must see and document to have a viable personal injury case include:
- Duty of care
- Breach of duty
- Causation
- Harm
People owe one another duties of care in many scenarios. These are generally created by a law or regulation. Traffic laws create the duty of care motorists owe others on the road, and premises liability laws create the duty of care property owners owe guests. When a party violates their duty of care—often violating the law, too—it often creates a dangerous situation and could cause physical injuries.
Our Long Island attorneys know how to identify these four elements and gather evidence. We aim to tell a compelling story that shows the accused party acted negligently and is liable for our client’s injuries.
Our Garden City Personal Injury Lawyer Protects Victims’ Rights and Pursues Fair Compensation
Our clients suffer a wide range of injury types and severities. Many visit emergency departments like the one at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, undergo hospitalization at the Level I facility, or see their family doctor for treatment of their injuries. We know how to handle cases where the victim is living with severe brain damage after a traumatic brain injury or when their accident caused a fracture, soft tissue injury, or a laceration that needed a few stitches.
If you or your loved one has serious or catastrophic injuries and are still receiving inpatient care, we can come to you in the hospital or rehabilitation facility. We want to ensure you get the legal representation you deserve as soon as possible. This includes having our attorneys manage all aspects of your case so you can focus on treatment, therapies, and healing.
When we represent a client with injuries in Garden City, we aim to recover the money they need to pay for their case to date, future care needs, lost income, and other expenses and losses they incurred. The recoverable damages in a Garden City personal injury case usually fall into two categories:
Economic Damages
Economic damages are the financial expenses and losses that occur because of an accident and injuries. This includes medical care costs, lost income, property damage, and related expenses. It also includes estimated totals for future care needs and support and diminished earning ability if there are permanent injuries that prevent a return to work.
Noneconomic Damages
Noneconomic damages are the intangible losses suffered by injured victims that do not have a direct financial value. This includes money for physical pain and suffering, mental anguish, disability or scarring, and reduced enjoyment of life.
Our Garden City Personal Injury Attorneys Also Handle Wrongful Death Cases
When a personal injury victim suffers a severe injury, they sometimes pass away from their injuries or complications. When this occurs, it may be possible for their family to recover compensation through a wrongful death action in Garden City, NY.
Our attorney will work with the victim’s personal representative, also known as the estate administrator or executor of their will. This is the only party allowed to sue for wrongful death damages based on New York state laws, per EPTL § 5-4.1.
The payout in these cases generally goes to the surviving spouse, children, or parents. Other dependents may recover compensation, too. Our attorney can help you understand how these cases work and the damage potentially available in your case. Contact us today for a free consultation.
Our Garden City Attorneys Represent Injured Victims With No Upfront Costs
At Trantolo & Trantolo, LLC, our personal injury lawyers help injury victims get the money they need to pay for their medical care, ongoing care and support, lost income, and pain and suffering. While we often settle cases through negotiated agreements, we will take cases to court when necessary. We have been handling cases like yours since 1938, and we will not settle for less than you deserve now just because your case is challenging or complex.
Our attorneys believe each client deserves personalized attention and support. You can count on our Long Island team to get to know you, learn about your family, and provide compassionate support anytime you need it. We treat every client as we would a member of our own family.
We Get Results for Injury Victims in Garden City
Our lawyers have all the experience, knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to build the most compelling case possible to recover maximum compensation for our clients. We have 85+ years of settlements and verdicts secured for our clients for many kinds of cases:
- $7.9 Million: We reached a settlement after a week of civil trial testimony, successfully recovering compensation for a client living with a severe brain injury sustained in a car accident.
- $3.5 million: We successfully negotiated a settlement for a motorcyclist who suffered serious injuries in a crash caused by a defectively milled roadway.
- $2 million: We mediated the case and reached an agreement for our client, a pedestrian who was struck by a careless motorist while crossing the road.
- $775,000: We negotiated a payout for a client who slipped on an icy driveway and suffered significant injuries, including one that required surgery.
- $775,000: We reached a settlement for a child who sustained serious injuries, underwent surgery, and was left with scars after being attacked on the arm and head by a dog.
- $700,000: We recovered compensation for the victim’s family in a wrongful death action following their loved one’s death in the workplace.
During a free case consultation, you can learn more about our track record of success and how we will handle your case with no upfront fees or costs. We will explain our contingency fee policy and answer your questions about our services. Contact us today to get started.
How Our Garden City Personal Injury Lawyers Recover Compensation for Our Clients
When we handle a case, we generally have two goals:
- Hold the at-fault party responsible
- Recover compensation for our client to cover their expenses and losses
Securing maximum compensation in these cases requires us to develop a compelling case to show negligence and document the expenses and losses our client incurred. Then, we need to work with experts to understand any future costs. Only then can we take steps to secure the money you need and deserve. We could win your case by:
- Negotiating an agreement with the at-fault party’s insurance company
- Mediating a settlement with help from a third-party mediator
- Arbitrating the case, as required by some contracts
- Litigating the case, including taking it to trial, presenting convincing evidence, and asking for a verdict and payout for our client
Most cases settle without going to trial. However, we will litigate any case we handle if necessary to get justice for our client.
What Is the Timeline for a Garden City Lawyer to Handle My Personal Injury Case?
Some clients call us as soon as the same day as their accident, although most wait until their injuries are stable and they can discuss what happened in clear detail. We recommend calling us as soon as your injuries allow since this means we can get started managing your case sooner.
We ensure the other parties involved in your case know we are representing you and begin handling all communication with them. This keeps you from accidentally saying or doing something to jeopardize your recovery of maximum compensation in your case. We also make sure you are not receiving phone calls from the insurance company when you are trying to rest and recuperate.
Our lawyers also take steps to preserve evidence as soon as you hire us. This could mean sending a spoliation letter to a trucking company after a crash or visiting local businesses to look for video of an incident that occurred nearby. Some evidence disappears before we can preserve it when victims wait too long to call us.
Deadline for Garden City Injury Lawsuits
Ultimately, New York law usually gives us up to three years to begin a lawsuit. While New York Civil Practice Laws & Rules § 214 sets this deadline, we need to begin working on your case well in advance to ensure you have the strongest case for compensation possible.
Get Help With Your Garden City, Long Island, Injuries When You Call Our Team
Trantolo & Trantolo, LLC, provides free consultations for injured victims and their families. We can assess your legal rights, explain your next steps, and discuss how our Garden City personal injury lawyers might approach your case with you for free.
You can reach us today by calling our team. We are available to take your calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.