May 15, 2019 | Injury Law
School districts in New York State may soon be allowed to install cameras on their school buses’ swinging stop-sign arms in hopes of catching motorists who pass stopped buses. Here is a staggering statistic for parents: The state’s Operation Safe Stop estimates...
May 14, 2019 | Injury Law
Do you know a military veteran or active-duty military service member home on leave you’d like to see honored in your community this summer? The Ziff Law Firm is the proud sponsor of the popular Veteran of the Game Program that will honor military veterans and...
Apr 30, 2019 | Injury Law
A GoFundMe account has been established for a Schuyler County man who was critically injured on April 18 when his vehicle was struck head-on by another driver who crossed the center line on State Route 13 in Schuyler County, just north of Alpine Junction. Douglas...
Apr 29, 2019 | Injury Law
The owner of a Town of Elmira landscaping company is facing two felony charges in the death last May of a Big Flats woman. Brian Demark, 32, the owner of the Premier Landscaping Co. on State Route 352, was recently indicted by a Chemung County grand jury on charges of...
Apr 23, 2019 | Injury Law
The Northern Tier truck driver accused of striking and killing a New York State Department of Transportation employee last month in Tioga County, N.Y., has been charged with Criminally Negligent Homicide. Lawrence E. Faucett, 37, of Ulster, Pa., pleaded not guilty on...
Apr 19, 2019 | Injury Law
Thursday’s three-vehicle crash on State Route 13 in Schuyler County that killed a Steuben County woman and critically injured a Schuyler County man hits home for me – I commute to and from my Schuyler County home to Elmira office on Route 13 and I have handled several...
Apr 10, 2019 | Injury Law
A federal judge recently ripped a subsidiary of the nation’s largest insurance company for caring more about its bottom line than its patients’ health, and accused its medical directors of being deceptive under oath during a 10-day trial. This judge saw what I have...
Mar 21, 2019 | Injury Law
New York State Police have identified 23-year-old Kayanna Lehman of Addison as the driver of the sedan who was killed Wednesday morning when her car crossed the center line on a Steuben County highway and struck an Addison Central School District bus head-on. Lehman...
Mar 20, 2019 | Injury Law
The New York State Department of Transportation worker who was seriously injured on March 13 when his truck was hit by a tractor-trailer on state Route 17 in Tioga County, NY, died Monday. Police said the driver of the tractor-trailer failed to obey the state’s Move...
Mar 14, 2019 | Injury Law
A tractor-trailer driver is accused of violating New York State’s Move Over Law after police said his truck struck a New York State Department of Transportation vehicle, injuring a DOT employee, Wednesday morning in a work zone on State Route 17 in the town of Nichols...
Feb 28, 2019 | Injury Law
A new national study of pedestrian safety has reported just how unsafe it is to be a pedestrian in 2019. According to “Dangerous By Design 2019,” published by Smart Growth America, the number of people struck and killed while walking has increased by 35 percent in the...
Feb 19, 2019 | Injury Law
Many of our vehicles are covered with ice and snow from our recent winter storm, and we are about to get hit with more over the next two days. If we don’t remove that snow and ice before hitting the road it will take to the air, often hitting other vehicles or...
Jan 30, 2019 | Injury Law
The number is staggering: 150,000 motor vehicles illegally pass school buses in New York State EVERY YEAR, according to state law enforcement agencies’ estimates. That’s 150,000 drivers in 180 school days a year! To address that stunning statistic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
Jan 22, 2019 | Injury Law
Roundabouts have arrived in the Twin Tiers, and the circular intersections have confused many drivers. Most drivers who rarely see roundabouts have had to learn to (1) slow down as they approach and be ready to yield, and (2), yield to traffic already in the...
Jan 15, 2019 | Injury Law
UPDATE ON JAN. 29, 2019: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sign the long-awaited Child Sex Act into law after the Democrat-controlled New York State Senate approved it unanimously on Monday, Jan. 28, in Albany. The new law will give victims of child sexual abuse,...
