If someone else’s negligence put you in a Brooklyn emergency room, a Brooklyn personal injury lawyer at Silver Law Group can tell you whether you have a claim, free of charge, before you decide anything.
We represent people injured anywhere in Brooklyn: a driver rear-ended on the Belt Parkway, a pedestrian struck turning onto Atlantic Avenue, a worker who fell on a Downtown Brooklyn job site. The line is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in English, Spanish, and Russian; call 212-470-4544. If your injuries keep you home or in a hospital bed, an attorney comes to you.
Do You Have a Brooklyn Personal Injury Case?
Every injury claim in New York turns on four things you have to prove. Someone owed you a duty of care — a driver has to obey the light at Flatbush and Tillary, a store has to clean up a spill. They breached that duty by doing something careless. The breach caused your injury, not some unrelated event. And you suffered real damages: medical bills, lost paychecks, lasting pain.
Take a driver who runs the red where Tillary Street meets the Flatbush Avenue Extension, the busiest crash intersection in Brooklyn, and hits you in the crosswalk. Duty, breach, causation, and damages line up in a single moment. If another person’s carelessness caused what happened to you, you probably have a claim worth bringing. A free case evaluation is the fastest way to find out where yours stands.
Types of Personal Injury Cases We Handle in Brooklyn
The firm’s personal injury attorneys handle the full range of Brooklyn injury cases, from a fender-bender on Ocean Parkway to a fatal construction fall. Each case type below has its own dedicated Brooklyn page with the detail that applies to it.
Car, Truck, and Motorcycle Accidents
Crashes are the most common injury cases we see in Brooklyn. Atlantic Avenue has been documented as the borough’s “Boulevard of Death” and named a Vision Zero priority corridor; the approach to the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, where Tillary Street meets the Flatbush Avenue Extension, is the highest-crash intersection in the borough. The BQE and the Belt Parkway add high-speed collisions where the injuries tend to be worse.
Motorcyclists are treated differently under the law, and it works in their favor. New York’s no-fault system excludes them, so a motorcyclist hurt by another driver can sue from the first dollar of damages without first clearing the serious-injury threshold that car occupants have to meet.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Accidents
Brooklyn’s streets are hard on people on foot and on bikes, and the numbers show where the danger concentrates. Left-turning vehicles cause roughly three of every four turn-related pedestrian deaths across the city — the driver is watching for a gap in traffic, not for the person in the crosswalk. Fourth Avenue at Atlantic and the crossing at Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue have both been flagged by City officials as among the most crash-prone spots in Brooklyn.
If a car hits you while you are walking or riding, you are covered by that vehicle’s no-fault policy, even though you were never inside the car. That coverage pays your first medical bills while the case gets sorted out.
Slip and Fall and Premises Liability
A property owner in Brooklyn has to keep the place reasonably safe for the people who come onto it. When they don’t, the injuries are familiar: a broken or iced-over sidewalk, an unlit stairwell in a walk-up, a loose railing in a NYCHA building, a spill left in a store aisle. Winning usually comes down to notice — you have to prove the owner knew about the hazard, or should have known and had time to fix it, before you got hurt.
Construction and Workplace Accidents
New York gives construction workers protection that exists almost nowhere else. Labor Law §240, the Scaffold Law, holds owners and contractors strictly liable when a height- or elevation-related failure — a fall from a scaffold, a load dropped from above — injures a worker. Sections 241(6) and 200 add duties for unsafe conditions and code violations on the site. With cranes up across Brooklyn from Downtown to Gowanus, these cases are common here.
Filing for workers’ compensation does not bar a lawsuit. You can collect comp from your employer and still bring a separate Labor Law claim against a third party, such as a property owner or general contractor whose violation caused the fall.
Medical Malpractice and Birth Injury
A bad outcome is not automatically malpractice. You have a claim only when the care fell below the accepted medical standard and that failure caused harm good treatment would have prevented, which means proving both the substandard care and the causal link. These claims come out of Brooklyn’s major hospitals, including Kings County Hospital Center at 451 Clarkson Avenue, Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, and Brookdale in Brownsville.
Where you were treated changes your deadline. Kings County, Woodhull, and South Brooklyn Health are public hospitals run by NYC Health + Hospitals, and a claim against one requires a Notice of Claim within 90 days — far less time than you would have against a private practice.
Wrongful Death
When a Brooklyn accident kills someone, the wrongful death claim belongs to the estate. The personal representative brings it on behalf of the distributees — the surviving spouse, children, or other heirs. Under EPTL §5-4.1, the deadline is two years from the date of death, and New York measures the damages mainly by what the survivors lost economically: the income, support, and services the person would have provided.
New York’s Comparative Negligence Rule: Recovering Even If You Were Partly at Fault
The insurance adjuster’s first move is often to pin part of the blame on you. In New York, that tactic has a ceiling. Under CPLR §1411, the state follows pure comparative negligence: your recovery is reduced by your share of fault, but it is never wiped out. If a jury finds you 30% responsible for a crash, you still recover 70% of your damages.
That is a more forgiving rule than most of the country uses. In many states, being found more than 50% at fault bars you from recovering anything at all. New York draws no such line, so even a plaintiff who was mostly at fault can still collect the portion the other side caused.
No-Fault Insurance and the Serious Injury Threshold
After a car crash in New York, your own no-fault coverage pays first, no matter who caused it. It covers up to $50,000 in basic economic loss — medical treatment and lost wages — so you are not paying out of pocket while fault gets sorted out. Two deadlines protect that money: you have to file the NF-2 application within 30 days of the crash, and your medical providers have to submit their bills within 45 days. Miss the 30-day window and the insurer can deny the whole claim.
No-fault has a trade-off built in. It pays your bills fast, but it also blocks you from suing the at-fault driver for pain and suffering unless your injury clears a legal bar. Insurance Law §5102(d) sets that “serious injury” bar, and your injury has to fall into one of its categories:
- Death
- Dismemberment
- Significant disfigurement
- A fracture
- Permanent loss or limitation of use of a body organ or member
- An injury that keeps you from your usual daily activities for at least 90 of the first 180 days after the crash
Clear one of these and you can sue the at-fault driver for the pain, the lasting limitation, and the losses no-fault never covers.
How Much Is Your Brooklyn Personal Injury Case Worth?
No honest lawyer can quote your case’s value from a headline number, and Silver Law Group does not publish verdicts or settlement figures. What a Brooklyn injury claim is worth comes from two kinds of loss:
- Economic damages have receipts behind them — past and future medical care, wages you have already lost, and the earning capacity a lasting injury takes away.
- Non-economic damages cover what no invoice captures: the physical pain and the parts of daily life the injury shuts down.
Three things move that number more than anything else: how badly you were hurt, how strong the evidence of the other side’s fault is, and how much insurance is actually available to pay. A free case evaluation is where those pieces get weighed for your situation, instead of against someone else’s result.
What to Do After an Accident in Brooklyn
The hours after a crash decide how strong your case will be. Take these steps in order:
- Get medical care right away. Brooklyn emergency rooms — the Level 1 Trauma Center at Kings County Hospital, 451 Clarkson Avenue, and Maimonides in Borough Park — treat and document your injuries, and that record becomes the backbone of your claim.
- Call 911 and make sure a police report is filed.
- Photograph the scene, the vehicles, and your injuries, and write down the names and numbers of anyone who saw what happened.
- File your no-fault NF-2 within 30 days so your medical coverage stays intact.
- Say no to a recorded statement. The insurer will call within days, and a recorded statement exists to be used against you later.
- Call an attorney before you accept anything or sign anything.
What It Costs to Hire a Brooklyn Personal Injury Lawyer
Hiring a Brooklyn personal injury lawyer here costs you nothing up front. Silver Law Group works on contingency: the fee is a percentage of the money the firm actually recovers for you, and it comes out of that recovery, not out of your pocket. If the firm does not win your case, you owe no attorney’s fee at all. That structure lines up the lawyer’s interest with yours — the firm gets paid only when you do.
The first conversation is free as well. A free consultation lets you learn where your case stands and what pursuing it would involve before you have spent a dollar or made any commitment. For a family already worried about medical bills and a missing paycheck, that is the point: the help carries no financial risk.
Deadlines to File a Personal Injury Claim in Brooklyn
Every injury claim has a clock, and the shortest one that applies to you is the one that matters. For most Brooklyn injury cases, the deadlines are:
- CPLR §214 — three years from the injury for most personal injury claims
- CPLR §214-a — two years and six months for medical malpractice
- EPTL §5-4.1 — two years from the date of death for wrongful death
Claims against a government body run on a much faster track, and this is where strong cases die. If a city or MTA bus hit you, or you were hurt at a public hospital like Kings County, Woodhull, or South Brooklyn Health, GML §50-e requires a Notice of Claim within 90 days of the injury, and GML §50-i then gives you one year and 90 days to file the lawsuit itself. Ninety days is easy to miss while you are still recovering, and missing it can end a claim that would otherwise have been strong.
Why Choose Silver Law Group for Your Brooklyn Injury Case
The consultation is free and the representation runs on contingency, so for a Brooklyn injury client, cost is never the reason to put off calling. The firm handles cases in English, Spanish, and Russian, and serves Brooklyn’s large Russian-speaking communities in Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay, and Bensonhurst in their own language. Someone answers the phone every hour of the day.
If your injuries keep you from traveling, an attorney comes to your home or your hospital room. Every case is built as if it will be tried, and insurers deal differently with a firm ready to take a case to a jury rather than settle for the quick payout. That preparation runs through the Kings County Supreme Court, Civil Term at 360 Adams Street, the busiest civil term in New York State, where Brooklyn injury cases are heard.