New York Personal Injury Attorney
Eric Turkewitz
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If you’re looking for a personal injury attorney you’ve likely been injured by the negligence of others. On the other side is a person or company resisting the obligation to provide fair compensation for your injuries. Personal injury lawyers level the playing field so that individuals have their cases heard in court on equal footing with multi-billion dollar companies.
We believe in personal responsibility. If people or companies injure or kill others through their negligence they should be accountable for the losses. That is fair and just, and that accountability not only provides for the needs of the injured but also makes our communities safer.
This firm is, therefore, dedicated to helping accident/collision and medical malpractice victims gain fair compensation for their injuries, as well as the families of wrongful death victims. Eric Turkewitz, the firm’s founder and principal trial attorney, has argued for over 30 years in front of judges and juries for just that purpose.
For ten years in a row, 2009-2018, he was selected by Super Lawyers Magazine, as a “Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney” attorneys in New York. He is also the publisher of the award winning New York Personal Injury Law Blog, established in 2008. He has written over 1,500 posts, on a very wide number of subjects relating to personal injury law or law practice, of which three recent (and frequently updated) ones are linked below.
New York's statute of limitations has been tolled since March 7th due to the virus. On November 3rd, 241 days after it started, it comes to an end for personal injury cases.
Read More >>Alabama has laws to keep insurance companies in check when they negotiate in bad faith. New York does not. Hard to believe, but true.
Read More >>I wrote an op-ed for the New York Law Journal 5 years ago on this. Now the Legislature has finally acted. The bill, if signed by the Gov., will make it more difficult for people bring frivolous cases just to shut down your opinions.
Read More >>Eric Turkewitz has tried personal injury cases to verdict in New York, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess and Albany counties. He has argued appeals in the the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Appellate Division First Department and Appellate Division Second Department.
Over the years, Mr. Turkewitz has examined hundreds of medical witnesses under oath in New York court proceedings, litigating across a wide spectrum of medical specialties. He has done this both for his own firm as well as for other attorneys that have sought him out. The media often seeks him out for guidance in understanding stories of popular interest.
Mr. Turkewitz also represented victims of the September 11 attack as a member of Trial Lawyers Care, the largest free legal services project in American history.
Not only did Marc and Eric win the case, they served us well, with exceptional briefs, procedural finesse (a skill not to be underestimated) and near-instantaneous responsiveness. Even so, this is the level of performance that clients should expect of their lawyers.
Continue >>We cannot begin to thank you for what you have done for us. We want you to know how much we appreciate everything that you have done for us, knowing we only see part of what you do to prepare for things like this. The time and effort you have given to us...
Continue >>From the moment he agreed to act as our local counsel, we could not have been trusted to better-skilled counsel. Though the matter took much longer to resolve than either respondents or counsel anticipated, Turkewitz' attention to the needs of the case and of his clients never once flagged.
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