PIP coverage. 30-day filing deadline. Pain and suffering requires meeting the serious injury threshold under §5102(d).
Call 911. Photograph the scene. Get the police report. Get medical care. File the PIP application within 30 days. Don’t give a recorded statement. Call us.
Federal-court-trained advocacy. Bilingual representation. Office at 40 Wall Street. Free consultation, no fee unless we recover.
Chelsea has one of the highest concentrations of pedestrian-and-cyclist crashes per block in Manhattan, driven by the 8th Avenue protected bike lane, FDR Drive on/off-ramps at 23rd/34th, and the High Line foot traffic at 14th–34th. DOT Vision Zero data shows the West 23rd corridor and 6th Avenue between 14th and 23rd as priority intersections. Block-level crash history helps establish notice in premises and roadway-design claims and gets used in negligent-design arguments against the City under GML §50-e.
Yes, in two ways. Port Authority traffic patterns (and unfamiliar out-of-state drivers exiting at 9th Avenue / 30th–40th) come up regularly in liability arguments. The PA itself is also a potential defendant for some claims, which carries its own Notice of Claim requirement (Public Authorities Law §1212) — a different deadline than the City’s GML §50-e 90-day rule. Identify the entity before the deadline runs.
No-Fault still applies. If you were on the clock or running a work errand, you may have a parallel Workers’ Comp claim. The two systems are coordinated; you don’t have to choose, and the third-party recovery against the at-fault driver typically exceeds what comp alone provides.
Most private business cameras overwrite in 24 to 72 hours. NYC DOT traffic cameras retain footage only briefly and require a formal preservation request. We send preservation letters the same day we’re retained. If a crash happened in front of a hotel, condo, or restaurant — Hyatt House, Eventi, Maritime, the Standard — we contact loss-prevention immediately.
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