If a crash on the Southern State Parkway, a fall at a Garden City store, or an accident on a Nassau construction site has left you hurt, a Nassau personal injury lawyer at Silver Law Group can tell you where your case stands — for free, and without pushing you to sign anything. The firm handles car and truck crashes, pedestrian injuries, slip and falls, construction accidents, medical malpractice, and wrongful death claims for injured people across Nassau County and Long Island. Every case starts with a free consultation, available 24 hours a day in English, Spanish, and Russian, and you pay no fee unless the firm wins. Call 212-470-4544 any time.
Why Nassau County Injury Cases Are Different
Your case will be decided in Nassau County, not New York City. Civil injury lawsuits filed here are tried in Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola, in front of Nassau juries and under local rules — a separate court system from the five boroughs, with its own judges and its own pace. A lawyer who works these courtrooms week to week knows how they run.
Nassau is suburban, and that changes who is responsible when you are hurt. The roads are a patchwork of state parkways, county roads, and town streets, each maintained by a different government. Many falls happen on private property, where the owner’s insurance company fights hard to blame you.
Some of the parties you may have a claim against are public:
- Nassau County, for a dangerous county road or county-owned property
- The Town of Hempstead or another town, for streets and sidewalks it controls
- Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) Bus, if a county bus was involved
Claims against these public entities run on a much shorter clock than an ordinary lawsuit, which is covered further down.
Where Nassau Accidents Happen and the Cases We Handle
Nassau County recorded close to 39,000 reported crashes in 2024, according to the state’s Traffic Safety Statistical Repository, and tens of thousands of people are hurt on its roads every year. A handful of corridors account for a large share of the serious wrecks.
- The Southern State Parkway, built in the 1920s with narrow lanes and no shoulders, funnels commuter traffic at highway speed with almost no room to recover from a mistake.
- Hempstead Turnpike is the county’s deadliest arterial, running through Elmont, Franklin Square, Hempstead, Uniondale, East Meadow, and Levittown, where constant turns and cross-traffic push drivers and pedestrians into the same space.
- The Meadowbrook and Northern State Parkways and the Long Island Expressway carry heavy volume and produce high-speed, multi-car collisions.
The cases the firm handles are tied to how and where people actually get hurt in Nassau:
- Car, truck, and motorcycle crashes on the parkways and turnpikes above
- Pedestrian injuries at busy intersections and in parking lots
- Slip, trip, and falls at retail sites like Roosevelt Field in Garden City, at supermarkets, and in lots where an owner left a hazard unfixed
- Construction accidents on Nassau job sites
New York gives construction workers unusual protection. Labor Law 240, the Scaffold Law, holds owners and general contractors liable for gravity-related injuries — a fall from a scaffold or ladder, or a load that drops on you. Labor Law 241(6) adds liability when a specific safety-code violation causes the harm. These laws can put responsibility on the owner and contractor even when the site was chaotic and no single person seems clearly at fault.
What Your Nassau County Injury Claim Is Worth
Your claim’s value has two parts. Economic damages cover money you can document — medical bills, lost wages, and the cost of future care you will still need. Non-economic damages cover pain and suffering and the loss of the things you used to enjoy doing.
To recover for pain and suffering after a car accident, you first have to clear New York’s serious-injury threshold under Insurance Law 5102(d): a fracture, a significant limitation of a body function, or another qualifying injury. Meet it, and the pain-and-suffering part of your claim opens up beyond what no-fault pays.
Some firms will tell you New York caps these damages. It does not. There is no cap on non-economic damages in a New York personal injury or medical malpractice case, no matter how large the harm.
Being partly at fault does not end your claim either. Under CPLR 1411, New York uses pure comparative negligence: if you are found 30% responsible, your recovery drops by 30%, but you still recover. Even a person found mostly at fault can collect the remaining share.
What to Do After an Accident in Nassau County
The first hours after a crash shape everything that follows. Take these steps in order:
- Get medical care right away. Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow and NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island in Mineola are the county’s main trauma centers. Go even if you feel able to wait — some injuries surface days later, and the record you create now anchors your claim.
- Report the crash and get the police report. It fixes the basic facts before anyone’s memory shifts.
- Photograph the scene, the vehicles, and your injuries while everything is fresh.
- Keep every record — bills, pay stubs showing missed work, and the names of anyone who saw what happened.
One deadline can quietly sink a car-accident claim: file your no-fault (PIP) application within 30 days of the accident. Miss that window and you can lose the medical and lost-wage benefits no-fault is meant to pay, regardless of who caused the crash.
How a Nassau County Injury Case Works
Most cases settle, but the ones that settle fairly are the ones the other side believes will go to trial. Here is how yours moves.
First, the firm investigates — pulling the police report, medical records, photographs, and any video, and identifying every party who may share fault, including a town or the county if a public road or bus was involved. Then comes the insurer. The adjuster’s job is to close your claim cheaply and fast, often with an early lowball offer before you know the full extent of your injuries; the firm takes over that contact so you are not negotiating from a hospital bed. If the insurer will not offer a fair number, the next step is filing suit in Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola, which starts formal discovery and puts a trial date on the calendar.
Silver Law Group prepares every case as if it will be tried. That posture does more than any advertisement: an insurer that knows your lawyer is ready to put the case in front of a Nassau jury has far more reason to pay fairly than one expecting a quick settlement.
What It Costs to Hire a Nassau County Personal Injury Lawyer
Nothing upfront. Silver Law Group takes injury cases on contingency, which means no hourly bill and no retainer to get started. The firm’s fee is a percentage of the money it recovers for you, taken out of the settlement or award at the end — so the fee only exists if there is a recovery. If the firm does not win, you owe no attorney fee at all. That arrangement lets an injured person hire a serious injury attorney without cash on hand, and it ties the firm’s payment to your result. The first consultation is free and available 24 hours a day, so you can learn where your case stands before you commit to anything.
Deadlines to File a Nassau County Injury Claim
New York gives you a limited time to sue, and the clock starts the day you were hurt.
- CPLR 214 gives you three years to file most personal injury lawsuits, including car, truck, pedestrian, and premises cases.
- CPLR 214-a gives you two and a half years for a medical malpractice claim.
- EPTL 5-4.1 gives a family two years to bring a wrongful death claim after losing a loved one.
Let one of these deadlines pass and the court will not hear your case, no matter how strong the evidence or how serious the injury. The safe move is to talk to a lawyer early, while there is still time to investigate.
The 90-Day Notice of Claim Against Nassau County or a Town
Suing a government in Nassau comes with a far shorter deadline than suing a private driver. If your claim is against Nassau County, the Town of Hempstead, North Hempstead, or Oyster Bay, an incorporated village, or NICE Bus, you must file a formal Notice of Claim under General Municipal Law 50-e within 90 days of the incident. The lawsuit itself then has to be started within one year and 90 days under GML 50-i. Miss the 90-day Notice of Claim window and the claim is usually gone for good, no matter how badly you were hurt. Because these cases turn on that first deadline, a fall on a county road or a crash with a NICE bus is worth a call within days, not weeks.
Why Injured Nassau Residents Choose Silver Law Group
You can reach a lawyer at Silver Law Group at any hour — the free consultation is available 24/7, not only during business hours. The firm works on contingency, so there is no fee unless it wins. Every case is built for trial, which is what gives an insurer a reason to take your claim seriously.
Two things matter for people hurt on Long Island. The firm serves clients in English, Spanish, and Russian, so you can explain what happened in your own language. And when your injuries make travel hard, the attorney comes to you, at your home or your hospital room, instead of asking you to reach a Midtown office. That office, at 49 West 37th Street in Manhattan, is a short drive or train ride from Nassau, and the firm represents Nassau clients in their own county court in Mineola. Call 212-470-4544 to start.