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The Law Offices of Tanya Gendelman, P.C. Experienced Personal Injury Lawyer in Brooklyn

Serious Car Accidents

We Help Maximize Financial Compensation After a Car Accident

No-Fault Auto Insurance in New York State pays for medical expenses and lost wages for a driver or passenger injured in, or a pedestrian injured by, your car; it is designed to pay regardless of who might have been at fault for the accident, and covers such economic losses as: medical/health expenses, lost earnings, and certain other reasonable and necessary expenses, up to $50,000 per person.

Basic No-Fault auto insurance coverage includes:

  • reasonable and necessary accident related medical and rehabilitation expenses (in accordance with established fee schedules);
  • 80% of lost earnings from work, up to a maximum payment of $2,000 per month for up to three years from the date of the accident; subject to statutory offsets for New York State disability, Worker's Compensation and Federal Social Security disability benefits.
  • up to $25 a day, for up to a year from the date of the accident, to reimburse other reasonable and necessary expenses, (e.g., household help, and transportation expenses to/from medical treatment) resulting from the auto accident; and
  • a $2,000 death benefit (in addition to the $50,000 basic No-Fault limit), payable to the estate of a person eligible for No-Fault benefits who is killed in a motor vehicle accident.

Further, New York's No-Fault law applies to injuries from car accidents that limits the rights of people to bring a lawsuit, unless they have a "serious injury.", Therefore, "serious injury" must fit one of these definitions:

  • A personal injury that results in death;
  • Dismemberment;
  • A significant disfigurement;
  • A fracture;
  • The loss of a fetus;
  • Permanent loss of use of a body organ, member, function or system;
  • Permanent consequential limitation of use of a body organ or member;
  • Significant limitation of use of a body function or system; or
  • A medically determined injury or impairment of a non- permanent nature which prevents the injured person from performing substantially all of the material acts which constitute such person's usual and customary daily activities for not less than ninety days during the one hundred eighty days immediately following the occurrence of the injury or impairment".

Twenty Five Percent (25%) of all lawsuits in the New York City Civil Courts are No-Fault suits. Judge Charles J. Markey describes No-Fault Litigation as "a Frankenstein monster that has assumed a life force of its own, becoming so unmanageable and uncontrollable that it acts out in ways never envisioned by its creator." The No-Fault laws and regulations are complicated and difficult to understand, requiring an experienced New York attorney Tanya Gendelman, Esq. to help her clients to sort things out.

Convenient and Effective Legal Help:
We Settle Serious Car Accident Claims

The Brooklyn Law Offices of Tanya Gendelman, P.C., has extensive experience providing legal representation to people who have been seriously injured in a car accident. Attorney Tanya Gendelman, Esq. has successfully settled more than 4,000 injury cases during her years of legal practice.

We have arranged our law practice to be as convenient and as efficient as possible for our clients. Our telephones are answered 24/7 hours a day, 365 days per year. We can always be reached in an emergency. Most of our legal work with clients can be done via telephone, fax or e-mail. When in-person client-lawyer meetings are necessary, we can come to your location or arrange Free Transportation to our Brooklyn office.

Get Medical Attention: The most important thing to do after a car accident, or any other type of accident, call 911 and go to the Hospital by Emergency Vehicle from the scene. After the initial Hospital Visit, call the Law Offices of Tanya Gendelman, P.C. for further consultation. It is important for an accident victim to seek immediate medical care and follow the treatment plan with your doctors. We can recommend medical providers for your injuries. Even if you think you're not seriously hurt, complications can arise in the days and weeks after a car accident, or any other accident, that you may have been involved in — so it's important to be under a doctor's care.

Do Your Injuries Qualify as Serious?

Among the "serious injuries" as defined by New York state law are:

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Private case evaluations with attorney Tanya Gendelman, Esq. are free of charge. As a personal injury law firm, no client pays any attorneys fees unless and until we get a successful settlement.

To make an appointment, send us an e-mail or call 1-877-WE-SETTLE (1-877-937-3885).