Truck Accident cases in Albany NY

Someone suggested we add a truck accident page to our website, so I did that today. Accident cases involving tractor-trailers are typically higher-value cases, due to higher insurance coverage and the severity of the injuries. Fortunately they are also rare.I revised some other pages on the personal injury section of the website while I was doing that. The neatest thing now is I added a map in

Huge verdict in Albany personal injury case - $3.85 million

What a week! I had a trial in Albany (4/23 to 4/27) on a personal injury case involving a motorcycle - car accident. My client was on the motorcycle. An SUV came across the centerline and drove him into another SUV. Client's foot was partially amputated by the force of the accident itself, and he had a surgical below-the-knee amputation about 12 days later. The jury came back on Friday with a

For all those who think I'm wonderful ...

In case you think I'm wonderful, there are those who disagree. Our recently fired paralegal has posted her thoughts on us on her MySpace blog. I'm the "asshole" in the story, by the way.Let's just say that I don't quite agree with everything she wrote, and in particular I didn't know a workplace was supposed to have a specific rule about being on time for work. My general sense is that when you

New blog -- Albany Injury Lawyer blog

I decided to try out typepad and created a new blog there. We'll see if I like that better. I'll try to focus the injury posts on that blog.

Albany Injury Lawyer

My practice is a bit diverse, with a heavy volume of relatively low revenue speeding tickets, some moderately higher revenue dwi and criminal defense cases.The biggest revenue opportunity for someone in my type of practice is personal injury cases. This includes car accidents and a variety of other accidents. Because there is so much revenue potential, there is a lot of competition as many

Personal Injury

On my way into work this morning I was thinking about some of my personal injury cases.One client was just in a motorcycle accident, and lost part of his leg. I've seen him a couple of times in the hospital now. It's sad to see that happen to someone, especially someone you know. He's a great guy, and I'm sure he'll recover well. I've never driven a motorcycle. I've been driven on them a couple

Good Personal Injury Blog

Noticed a good personal injury blog from Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to the blog, it has a great list of other blogs.

Personal Injury and Insurance Defense

I used to work for Allstate, in-house, as an Insurance Defense lawyer. That means Allstate paid me a salary to work in their office, but my clients were Allstate customers. I noticed a Georgia personal injury blog that discussed the ethical issues for insurance defense lawyers in a couple of recent posts:One and another.I saw these pressures in my work. A good example is when the insurance