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If you suffer injuries because of an accident involving a bus in the Queens borough of New York City, you could be facing a long recovery. Let the Queens bus accident lawyers at Elliot Ifraimoff & Associates, PC defend your right to file an injury lawsuit. Trust our experienced bus accident lawyers in New York to fight tirelessly for a financial award that reflects the severity of your injuries.
A common question our Queens bus accident lawyers hear from potential clients centers on whether they have a case. After suffering an injury in a bus accident, most people believe they have the right to seek a financial claim through a lawsuit.
You certainly have the right to represent yourself against the insurance company in the negotiations over an injury claim. You don’t have to hire legal representation. However, without an understanding of the steps required, you are at a major disadvantage.
The team at Elliot Ifraimoff & Associates, PC can take several steps to pursue a claim. Our efforts can be extremely beneficial in trying to win compensation for you.
Determining fault is the most important step when seeking an injury claim after a bus accident. If you cannot determine who was at fault, you don’t have a defendant for the injury lawsuit.
We will investigate the case to determine whether negligence occurred. We need to figure out who is liable for the accident. Our methods of documenting evidence are key for making strides toward winning your claim.
The insurance company might try to blame you by stating that its investigation showed your actions somehow contributed to the crash. When representing you as your Queens bus accident lawyers, our investigation will attempt to find facts that dispute the insurance company’s investigation.
We use our experience and the opinions of your doctors to determine the value of your claim. This gives us a starting point for negotiations with the insurance company.
In a general sense, someone who suffers life-altering injuries in a bus accident that affects their ability to work and enjoy life likely would have a chance at a larger financial award. Someone who returns to work within a few weeks and has no lingering pain likely would have a chance at a smaller award.
Once you hire us, we will take over all correspondence with the insurance company on your behalf. This gives you more time to focus on recovering your health.
After our investigation and speaking with your doctors, we begin negotiations with the insurance company. Through these conversations, we may be able to receive a fair financial award. However, should negotiations fail, we will represent you at a trial.
When you hire our Queens bus accident lawyers to represent you, we will work to help you recover two primary types of damages for your injury claim.
Any financial awards we try to win for you with a precise amount associated with them are economic damages. These may include your medical treatment costs and any salary you did not earn while trying to recover your health.
We also make an estimate of the medical costs you’ll have in the future related to your injuries. We then seek money for those. Should you need modifications to your home to deal with your injury hardships, we can also seek payments for these items.
Non-economic damages would be damages that do not have a precise amount associated with them.
For example, we would seek a pain and suffering non-economic award for you in nearly all bus accident injury lawsuits. This award would attempt to compensate you for things like:
In New York City, about 4% of all motor vehicle accidents involved a bus in 2022. In those accidents, passengers on the bus could suffer injuries. City buses in Queens do not have seat belts or other restraining devices. If you fall from or fly out of your seat in the collision, you could suffer a variety of injuries.
Not all bus accidents involve injuries to people riding on the bus, though.
In urban areas where buses share the road with pedestrians and bicyclists, a bus could hit you while you are walking or riding and cause life-altering injuries.
Our Queens pedestrian injury accident lawyers know that pedestrians hit by any motor vehicle could have ongoing pain and suffering. When you did nothing wrong, we are ready to help you file a lawsuit after a bus strikes you.
When a large vehicle like a bus hits another motor vehicle, the injuries to those riding in the car can be severe, too.
Some bus accidents can even result in a fatality. In 2022, New York State had the third most fatal bus accidents among the 50 states. If a loved one suffered a fatality in an accident involving a bus, our Queens bus accident lawyers are ready to help your family.
At Elliot Ifraimoff & Associates, PC, our team of New York bus accident lawyers know that a bus accident could involve catastrophic injuries. Whether the bus hit you as a pedestrian or you suffered a head injury while riding the bus, we are ready to help. We represent injury victims in a bus crash or any of our practice areas with the same personalized attention and tenacious work ethic.
For a free case review, call our Queens bus accident lawyers today at (718) 205-1010 or toll-free at (888) 275-3554.
At Elliot Ifraimoff & Associates, PC, we take pride in being willing to answer any questions that our clients have for us. Here are some of the most common questions we hear from clients when we are preparing to file a bus accident lawsuit for them.
You must file a lawsuit against New York City within one year and 90 days from the accident, according to the City Comptroller’s Office. Our New York bus accident lawyers can help you meet any deadlines in your injury claim.
The state of New York does have a lot of bus crashes, as it had the most bus accidents among all 50 states in the United States in 2022 — 1,463, to be precise, according to TruckInfo.net.
During your first meeting with our bus accident lawyers in Queens, we will listen to your description of the accident and your goals for the case. We will then advise you on what we think you should do and the strength of your case. You can then decide whether to hire us.
We try to make it easy to afford to hire our Queens bus accident lawyers by working on a contingency fee basis. You owe us nothing for our representation if we do not win your case. We also offer a free initial case review.
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