Nassau County Personal Injury Lawyer

Car, truck, bus and motorcycle crashes; pedestrian and bicycle injuries; falls on sidewalks, in stores and in apartment buildings; construction and other work injuries; dog bites; medical malpractice; and wrongful death claims from anywhere in Nassau County.

The consultation is free, and there is no fee unless there is a recovery. The fee agreement is explained in writing before we start.

Nassau follows New York State law. Most injury lawsuits against a private person or business must be started within three years. Medical malpractice is generally two years and six months, and wrongful death two years after the death. For an ordinary personal-injury claim against Nassau County, a town, a village or a city, a notice of claim is usually due within 90 days and a lawsuit generally within one year and 90 days; a death claim has separate notice and timing rules. A road or sidewalk defect claim against a town or village can also depend on prior written notice.

Through the evidence: the police report, photos and video, witnesses, vehicle damage, the condition of the place where you were hurt, and the medical records. In a crash, traffic rules and each driver’s actions matter; in a fall, who owned or maintained the place and whether they created the hazard or knew about it.

Depending on the claim, medical costs, lost earnings, pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life, and in serious cases future care and lost earning capacity. After many vehicle crashes, New York no-fault benefits, where they apply, pay some losses first, and a pain-and-suffering claim may need to meet the serious-injury rules. We do not quote values before reviewing the records.

Not always. Many claims resolve without a trial, but if a lawsuit is filed you may need to give a deposition or attend a medical examination, and a public body can demand a sworn examination after a notice of claim. A suit against Nassau County or a Nassau town, village or city is generally venued in Nassau County, subject to transfer and other venue rules. Other cases can generally be venued where a party lived when the case started or where a substantial part of the events happened.

Your share of fault generally reduces the damages rather than barring the claim. One exception: in a personal-injury action subject to Insurance Law article 51 (the no-fault law) commenced on or after May 26, 2026, recovery is barred if the claimant’s culpable conduct is greater than the defendant’s, or greater than the defendants’ combined.

We request your records from the facility that treated you, whether a private hospital such as North Shore University Hospital, NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, Mount Sinai South Nassau, St. Francis Hospital or Mercy Hospital, or NUMC in East Meadow, which is run by the Nassau Health Care Corporation. Naming a hospital does not suggest any affiliation with it or any fault by it. If an ordinary personal-injury claim arises at NUMC, the notice of claim goes to that corporation, usually within 90 days.

This page does not rank roads, because a ranking would not decide your claim. Most crash claims are against another driver and their insurer, wherever the crash happened. Who maintains the road matters when a defect, signal or design problem contributed: a State parkway or highway points to the Court of Claims, while a county, town or village road needs that body’s notice of claim and may need prior written notice of the defect.

Our main office is at 423 RXR Plaza, East Tower, Uniondale, NY 11556, in the Town of Hempstead, and serves Nassau and Suffolk counties. You can meet us there or start by phone at (516) 227-2662 or by video.

All of Nassau County, including Hempstead, Garden City, Mineola, Uniondale, Freeport, Long Beach, Glen Cove, Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington, Hicksville, Levittown, Massapequa, Valley Stream, Rockville Centre, Oceanside, Westbury and East Meadow.