If someone else’s negligence left you hurt anywhere in Nassau or Suffolk County, a Long Island personal injury lawyer at Silver Law Group can tell you for free whether you have a claim worth bringing. The firm represents injured Long Islanders from its Midtown Manhattan office and sends an attorney to you — your home, your hospital room — anywhere on the Island. The line is answered 24 hours a day in English, Spanish, and Russian, and you owe no fee unless we recover money for you. Call 212-470-4544.
Do You Have a Long Island Personal Injury Case?
Every injury claim in New York rests on three things you have to prove. First, someone owed you a duty of care — a driver has to leave safe distance on the Long Island Expressway, a store has to clear a spill before a customer slips. Second, they breached that duty through carelessness. Third, that carelessness is what injured you.
Picture a driver who rear-ends you in stopped traffic on the LIE, a shopper who falls on an unmarked wet floor in a Nassau shopping center, a laborer thrown from a collapsing scaffold on a Suffolk County job site. Each one lines up duty, breach, and a real injury in a single event. If another person’s carelessness is why you were hurt, you likely have a claim. A free case review is the fastest way to know where yours stands.
Types of Personal Injury Cases We Handle on Long Island
Silver Law Group is a personal injury law firm that takes the full range of cases Long Islanders bring after someone else’s negligence, each built on facts specific to the Island rather than swapped-in boilerplate:
- Car, truck, and motorcycle crashes on the Island’s highways and parkways
- Pedestrian and bicycle accidents along its most dangerous surface roads
- Slip and fall and other premises liability claims
- Construction and workplace accidents
- Dog bites
- Medical malpractice
- Wrongful death
Car and Truck Accidents on Long Island
Suffolk County recorded more traffic deaths than any other county in New York from 2016 to 2020, and both Suffolk and Nassau rank among the state’s deadliest counties for traffic fatalities in NHTSA data. Most of those crashes cluster on a handful of roads.
The Long Island Expressway (I-495) and Sunrise Highway (Route 27) carry highway speeds that turn a rear-end tap into a spinal injury. The Northern State and Southern State Parkways add tight curves and older interchanges, and Jericho Turnpike (Route 25) mixes turning traffic with pedestrians at grade. When a truck is involved, the weight difference alone can decide whether you walk away or spend weeks recovering.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Accidents
Hempstead Turnpike (New York State Route 24) is the most dangerous road for pedestrians on Long Island. Nassau County and Hempstead Village police counted more than 320 pedestrians and cyclists struck there between 2011 and 2021, with 13 killed, and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign has repeatedly ranked it the deadliest road in the Tri-State area.
The design is part of why. Long stretches between marked crosswalks push people to cross mid-block, signal times are too short for anyone moving slowly, and drivers treat the wide lanes like a highway. Those same factors are what pin liability on a driver when your case is built.
Slip and Fall and Premises Liability
A property owner has to keep the premises reasonably safe for the people allowed on them. On Long Island that duty runs hardest in winter, where New York’s snow-and-ice rules can hold an owner responsible for a fall on an untreated walkway, though an owner generally gets a reasonable window after a storm stops to clear it. Falls happen in the same places across Nassau and Suffolk — shopping-center entrances, parking lots slick with black ice, apartment-complex stairwells. One trap catches people who fall on public land: if the hazard sits on town or county property, a much shorter Notice of Claim deadline applies, and missing it can end the claim before it starts.
Construction and Workplace Accidents
New York gives construction workers protection that reaches past workers’ compensation. Labor Law §240, the “Scaffold Law,” puts near-strict liability on owners and general contractors for gravity-related injuries, like a fall from height or an object dropped onto a worker below. Labor Law §241 covers broader construction-site safety, and §200 sets the general duty to keep a worksite safe.
Because these laws run against the property owner and contractor rather than your employer, they can support a third-party lawsuit on top of a workers’ comp claim, reaching money comp alone never pays. On Long Island, where residential and commercial building rarely slows, these cases come up constantly.
What Is My Long Island Injury Case Worth?
No honest lawyer can name your case’s value from a headline number, and Silver Law Group does not publish or promise dollar figures, because no two injuries carry the same losses. New York law lets you recover for:
- Medical bills already paid
- Future medical care your injury will keep needing
- Wages lost while you could not work
- Pain and suffering
- The loss of activities and enjoyment the injury takes from daily life
What moves the number is specific to you: how severe your injury is, how clearly the evidence shows the other side was at fault, and how much insurance coverage is actually available to pay a judgment. A free case review is where those factors get weighed for your situation instead of against someone else’s outcome.
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 the wreck. It covers up to $50,000 per person in medical bills and lost earnings, so the bills do not sit on you while fault gets sorted out. The catch is timing: you generally have to start the no-fault claim within 30 days of the accident, and missing that window lets the insurer deny it.
No-fault also blocks you from suing the at-fault driver for pain and suffering unless your injury clears the “serious injury” bar in Insurance Law §5102(d). Its categories include:
- A bone fracture
- Significant disfigurement
- Permanent consequential 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 180 days after the crash
Clear one of these and the pain, the lasting limits, and the losses no-fault never touches become part of what you can pursue.
What to Do After an Injury on Long Island
What you do in the first days after an injury shapes how strong your claim will be. Take these steps in order:
- Get medical care right away. Long Island’s trauma centers — Nassau University Medical Center at 2201 Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow, and Stony Brook University Hospital, the only Level I trauma center in Suffolk County — treat and document the injury, and that record becomes the backbone of your case.
- Report the incident, whether that means a police crash report or telling a store manager in writing.
- Photograph the scene, the hazard or vehicles, and your injuries before anything gets cleaned up or repaired.
- Get the names and phone numbers of anyone who saw it happen.
- Talk to a lawyer before you give any recorded statement to an insurer. The adjuster will call within days, and that recording exists to be used against you.
An attorney can come to your home or hospital room to do this, so a serious injury does not stop you from getting advice early.
What It Costs to Hire a Long Island Personal Injury Lawyer
Hiring a Long Island personal injury lawyer here costs nothing to start and nothing unless you win. The consultation is free, and you pay no money upfront and no hourly bills while the case runs.
The fee is a set percentage taken out of the money actually recovered for you, so it comes from the result rather than your pocket. If there is no recovery, there is no attorney’s fee at all. That is why you can hire a serious injury firm while you are out of work and worried about rent — the risk sits with the firm, not with you.
Deadlines for Filing a Long Island Injury Claim
Miss the filing deadline and the strongest case in Nassau or Suffolk is over before it begins. The clock depends on what happened:
- Most personal injury claims run three years from the date you were hurt (CPLR §214).
- Wrongful death claims run two years from the date of death (EPTL §5-4.1). That two-year limit still stands after the Grieving Families Act, which would have lengthened it, was vetoed again in December 2025.
- Medical malpractice claims run two and a half years (CPLR §214-a).
A separate, far shorter deadline applies when a government entity is involved. If your injury came from a NICE bus, Suffolk County Transit, a town or county vehicle, or a road defect the government was supposed to maintain, General Municipal Law §50-e requires a Notice of Claim within 90 days. Blow that 90-day window and the ordinary three-year clock never gets a chance to help you.
Where Long Island Injury Cases Are Filed
Where your case gets filed usually comes down to where the crash happened or where a party lives. A Nassau County injury suit goes to Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive in Mineola. A Suffolk County case goes to Suffolk County Supreme Court at 1 Court Street in Riverhead, with much of the civil work handled at the Cohalan court complex at 400 Carleton Avenue in Central Islip. Knowing how each of these courts actually runs, from the assigned judges to local filing practice, keeps a case from stalling on avoidable mistakes.
Partly at Fault? You Can Still Recover on Long Island
Being partly to blame does not end your claim in New York. Under CPLR §1411, the state follows pure comparative negligence: you can recover even if you were mostly at fault, and your award drops only by your own percentage of blame. Found 30% responsible, you still collect 70%.
Insurers know this, which is why an adjuster’s first move is often to pin as much fault on you as they can. A bigger share assigned to you is a smaller check they write. Do not accept their version of who caused the crash before a lawyer looks at it.
Why Injured Long Islanders Choose Silver Law Group
The reasons to choose Silver Law Group are things the firm can actually stand behind, not a wall of awards:
- The first consultation is free, and representation runs on contingency, so there is no fee unless we recover.
- Consultations happen in English, Spanish, and Russian, which matters across Long Island’s mix of communities.
- The line is answered 24/7, because injuries do not wait for business hours.
- Every case is prepared as if it will be tried, and that trial-ready posture is what pushes an insurer toward a fair offer instead of a lowball.
- An attorney travels to you anywhere in Nassau or Suffolk, so you are not driving to Manhattan with a broken leg to hire one.
Speak With a Long Island Personal Injury Lawyer Today
You can find out what your claim is worth without paying anything or committing to anything. Call a Long Island personal injury lawyer at Silver Law Group for a free consultation, in English, Spanish, or Russian, any hour of the day. There is no fee unless we recover for you, and if getting to an office is hard right now, an attorney comes to you anywhere on Long Island. Call 212-470-4544.