Feb 22, 2021 | Injury Law
A grandmother who saw her 2-year-old granddaughter gravely injured by falling debris from a crumbling Manhattan building façade in 2015 has the same legal rights as a parent when it comes to witnessing a horrific death or injury, the New York Court of Appeals ruled...
Dec 18, 2020 | Injury Law
A construction worker was injured Monday night in Ithaca when he fell from the roof of a five-story building into a Dumpster filled with construction debris in the street below. Ithaca police have not released any information about the condition of the 37-year-old...
Dec 15, 2020 | Injury Law
The Ziff Law Firm in Elmira has been fortunate in 2020. Amid the pandemic, our hard-working lawyers and staff have been able to keep working from our home offices, continuing to offer the best representation possible to our clients. But we know thousands of other Twin...
Nov 24, 2020 | Injury Law
The Ziff Law Firm has done it again. In a ranking decided by our peers, our law firm was rated as the Best Law Firm in the Southern Tier of NY – from Binghamton to Steuben County – in the 2021 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers in America “Best Law...
Nov 24, 2020 | Injury Law
Big rig trucks are a common sight on the highways and byways of Elmira and throughout the Twin Tiers region of New York and Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, when they get into a collision, their sheer size and weight can produce catastrophic injuries to occupants of the...
Aug 31, 2020 | Injury Law
In lieu of a post about my normal fare of articles about NY personal injury laws, I thought in these turbulent times, a nice, off-topic, feel-good post might be appreciated. My wife and I raised three great kids on the shore of Seneca Lake, and we’ve built some deep...
Aug 24, 2020 | Injury Law
Congratulations to my law partner Christina Bruner Sonsire for being named the Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year” in the field of Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs for the Binghamton region, an area that includes all of the Southern Tier. I...
Aug 13, 2020 | Injury Law
A 24 year old Penn Yan man, Justin Niver, is facing just Vehicle and Traffic tickets for causing a crash Sunday evening with a horse-and-buggy in Yates County that seriously injured seven members of a Mennonite family, including an infant and a 7-year-old boy. The...
May 26, 2020 | Injury Law
The great folks living in the Twin Tiers have listened to the medical experts and stayed home for months, making personal and professional sacrifices to protect themselves, their family and friends, and ultimately, everyone else from the pandemic. I have been so...
May 6, 2020 | Bike Accident, Injury Law
So sad and so horrible. A respected Cornell University professor who was highly regarded by her students for tirelessly giving her time to them was killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver Sunday evening in the Tompkins County Town of Groton as she was riding her...
Apr 18, 2020 | Injury Law
An 84-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed by a car while walking April 14 in Sayre, Pa., the latest victim in an endless series of pedestrian crashes that have soared in recent years. According to a recent study by the Governors Highway Safety Association,...
Apr 14, 2020 | Injury Law
A 17-year-old who was driving a vehicle involved in a fatal crash on March 4 in the Steuben County town of Avoca has been charged with Driving While Ability Impaired By Drugs, a misdemeanor, and more charges are likely, according to Steuben County Sheriff Jim Allard....
Apr 13, 2020 | Injury Law
It is nice to know that our decision to heavily invest in top-of-the line technology years ago is now helping us weather the storm of the mandatory shutdown of our office during the coronavirus crisis. It is hard to believe now, but when I first started practicing law...
Mar 26, 2020 | Injury Law
It is 5 a.m. and I am at my home computer. For more than a week, my law office has been closed and our dedicated team of lawyers and paralegals has been working remotely. Despite the fact that our office is closed, we still can easily be reached by calling...
Mar 18, 2020 | Injury Law
President Trump, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf have declared states of emergency to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and health officials have strongly recommended “social distancing”. To do our part in...
