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  • What a Bad, Stupid Law   
    Description: New York's Divorce "Reform" is a Nightmare
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    Description: Recent Cases Decided In New York Reveal Problems
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    Description: People Who Have Legitimate Claims Should Be Given a Fair Shake In Spite of Bogus Suits
  • Why You MUST Get a DNA Test if You Might Be the Father   
    Description: Getting Duped Into Believing You Are the Father of a Child is Fair Play in the Empire State
  • New York Injury Attorney Gives Advice that Could Save Your Life- And Your Case   
    Description: Comparative Negligence Law in New York Can Cost Injured Riders Their Case
  • What's Fair AND What Isn't   
    Description: What you really need to know about attorney fee agreements BEFORE signing one.
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    Description: Written Waiver of Liability Not Enforceable Against Minors
  • Slippin' On the Dock of The Bay   
    Description: Slip and Fall Case Tossed Out for Good reason
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished   
    Description: Why Being A Courteous Driver Can Be Costly Should An Accident Occur
  • Injury Lawyer Explain Why You Should Run Away From Big Box Mega Firms   
    Description: Who actually works on your file? The big warrior or his water boy?
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    Description: Do Pet Stores Have A Heightened Duty to Keep Store Floor Clean?
  • She Who Signs the Contract Gets Stiffed   
    Description: New York's Heart Balm Law Is Grossly Unfair
  • At Least We Are Not the Swiss   
    Description: While There is Much Room for Improvement, Out Legal System is Still the Best
  • Assumed Risk? You Decide.   
    Description: Whether or Not the families of the Olympic Luger who Died on the Track and that of Elliott Eklund can Sue Depends on Whether or Not the Men Assumed the Risk of Death or Injury
  • Personal Responsibility Is In the Eye of the Beholder   
    Description: Injury Lawyer Discusses Problems with Fight Against Bogus Lawsuits
  • What Are We Teaching Our Children?   
    Description: Hard Work and Saving is the Key to Success
  • You Can't Blame the Lawyer's Alone   
    Description: Frivolous Lawsuits or Fair and Just Claims?
  • Author of Books on Injury Cases and Insurance Issues Reveals Insurance Company Tricks   
    Description: What Every Injured Person MUST KNOW Before Meeting Insurance Company Doctor
  • Who We Are   
    Description: We are a small “boutique” law firm in the unique position of being able to pick and choose our clients. Each year, we accept a limited number of cases from the scores of people who ask us to represent them. If we review your case and it passes our strict internal test, your case will receive our personal attention.
  • Why Local Personal Injury Attorney Can Out Perfom Mega Firm- Smaller is Better   
    Description: What formerly was accomplished in twenty hours of research the old-fashioned way, I can now accomplish in minutes without ever getting up from my desk. This is no exaggeration. With the advent of very powerful Internet legal search engines that accept “natural language” search requests (for example, “Does suing for “anxiety” suffered by a plaintiff in a personal injury case allow the defense to investigate the plaintiff’s pre-accident mental health history?”), the advantage that large law firms had over smaller offices has completely vanished. The playing field has been leveled.
  • Who We Are NOT   
    Description: We are not a big box law firm that will hand your case off to a paralegal or an inexperienced attorney. We will not settle your case quickly just to maximize our profit, at your expense.
  • FINALLY FAIR FEES- Personal Injury Lawyer Changes the Way Fees Are Charged   
    Description: I recently saw a perfect example of this when I met a young girl who lost the sight in one of her eyes as a result of a BB gun accident. The insurance company for the homeowner immediately offered to pay the full amount of their insured’s policy of $300,000 to the young lady. I was flabbergasted when I learned from the parents of the child that two other attorneys agreed to take the case, but only if they received 1/3 of the recovery, or $100,000!
  • Construction Accident Attorney Tells the Truth About New York's Scaffold Law   
    Description: The Scaffolding Law in New York State has been on the books for over 100 years. It does not say that if you are at work and fall off a ladder or scaffold that you automatically recover money. What it does say is that if you are working at a height (because working at heights is considered so dangerous) the owner and general contractor on that project have a duty to make sure that you are provided with appropriate safety devices including ladders, scaffolds, hoists, etc. If they do not do that and you fall and are injured, you then have an absolute claim you can make against them for violating that law. Your claim is not valid simply because you fall. It is only valid if they did not do what the law, for over 100 years, has obligated them to do—provide you with safety devices to use when working at a height.
  • I Hate Giving People Bad News   
    Description: One of the more unpleasant things I must do as a lawyer is give a client bad news. This is particularly true when the client or a loved one has been badly injured in a car accident, and then we find out that the driver of the car that caused the crash either had no insurance or the minimum required by law in New York. Telling the parent of a child that has severe and permanent injuries that the responsible driver only had $25,000 worth of insurance is not a pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
    The good news is that such a scenario would have been avoided if the client had purchased adequate Supplementary Underinsured/Uninsured Motorist Coverage (SUM coverage) on his own auto policy.
  • Athlete and others and assumed risks in sports   
    Description: The general rule in New York is that athletes assume the risks associated with their sport, provided such risks are “known, apparent or reasonably foreseeable”. This assumption of risk can also be applied to spectators of the sporting event as well as the participants.
  • When a Loved One Has Been Killed in a Car Accident, What Can You Expect?   
    Description: When someone dies in such an accident and the other driver is at fault, the family of the driver who was killed can commence a lawsuit against the responsible person for the “wrongful death” of their loved one. However, under New York law, all that the family can sue for on a wrongful death claim is the present value of the financial or “pecuniary” loss sustained by the family of the deceased. This means that the family can only get the value of the deceased’s lost future wages and value of the work that the deceased would have performed around the house. When the deceased is a child or a retired senior, this amount is very small, often not more than $25,000 or so. In order to get any more than this financial or pecuniary loss, the family members would have to prove that their loved one was conscious after the accident for a prolonged period, known as “conscious pain and suffering”.
  • Personal Injury Lawyer Advises Against Jury Duty Scam   
    Description: This fraud has been reported in almost every state, including New York. It is particularly effective, because the threat of arrest is used in conjunction with a very believable claim of legitimacy to bully people into giving out their confidential information.
    I talked to Livingston County Commissioner of Jurors Jim Culbertson about this, and he advises that under no circumstances would anyone from his office ever ask for confidential information over the phone. In fact, he tells me his office would never phone in the first place, as they communicate strictly by mail. He further advises that in New York, jurors are not required to give their social security number at all (when a juror chooses not to disclose his social security number, the juror forfeits his fee for jury service).
  • In Construction Accident Case, Small Office Defeats Mega Firm in Fee Dispute   
    Description: After a lengthy trial, the Livingston County Supreme Court (Hon. Dennis S. Cohen) awarded the big box lawyers 2 ½ % of the fee, and awarded 97 ½ % to me and Joe Moran. The Court found that the work performed by one of the partners in the big box firm was “deficient”, and that his efforts “paled in comparison to the efforts of Cannon”. The Court further found that “Moran’s work was extensive, requiring enormous time, skill and knowledge.” The big box lawyers appealed Judge Cohen’s decision to the State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department in Rochester. By a unanimous 5-0 decision, that Court upheld Judge Cohen’s decision.
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