personal injury
Suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) is just that: traumatizing. Individuals can suffer TBI as a result of car accidents, slips and falls, concussions, violence, and any action that results in trauma to the head. While some TBI is the consequence of unfortunate and unlucky circumstances, other instances have resulted from negligent behavior or activity.…
Read MorePreliminary data from the 2017 NYS Crash Summary report, compiled by the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, identifies “Driver Inattention/Distraction” as the leading cause of accidents in New York State. Out of the 308,519 crashes in New York in 2017, police reported that 56,863 of them involved driver inattention or distraction. Nearly half…
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Girvin & Ferlazzo is excited to announce that three of our attorneys have made the list for Upstate New York 2018 Super Lawyers: Sal Ferlazzo (Alternative Dispute Resolution), Patrick Fitzgerald (Business and Corporate), and Ryan Mullahy (Rising Star). Out of the practicing attorneys in Upstate New York, only five percent made the Super Lawyer list.…
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The arena of personal injury law is already complex, and adding questions of taxation into the fold doesn’t necessarily simplify matters. When it comes to personal injury settlements, one of the questions our Albany law firm gets most frequently involves whether settlements are taxable. As with most legal and tax-related matters, the answer is that…
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