The Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Action In New York State    

Editor-in-Chief                                                                                                                                            
Patrick J. Higgins
Powers & Santola, LLP
Albany , NY 

Key Benefits                                                                                                                                               
• Master your handling of personal injury cases, including development in related areas such as special needs trusts, structured settlements, Medicare and Medicaid liens, health insur­ance subrogation, bankruptcy, Frye and Daubert motions, post–Burns Kelly calculations, CPLR Articles 50-A and 50-B hearings, and demands for confidentiality agreements.
• Learn how to pre­pare, try, or win a case—and how to shepherd a client through the pro­cess. 

Product Description                                                                                                                                 
The New York State Bar Association has created the most up-to-date, focused and comprehensive review of the plaintiff’s personal injury practice in New York.

This treatise answers the tough questions faced by the plaintiff’s personal injury attorney every day—liens, special needs trusts, structures, Medicare and Medicaid, conflicts of interest, workers’ compensation, no-fault, bankruptcy, representing a party in infancy, incompetency, and wrongful death.

New York’s most experienced personal injury lawyers, and nationally recognized experts, teach cutting-edge skills for the practicing trial lawyer, while also laying out the most current substantive law—from medical malpractice to mass torts.

Contents at a Glance                                                                                                                                
SECTION I—ETHICS

SECTION II—SUBSTANTIVE LAW

SECTION III—CLIENTS WITH DIFFERING CAUSES OF ACTION AND NEED

SECTION IV—STARTING THE ACTION AND DISCOVERY

SECTION V—LITIGATING THE PERSONAL INJURY ACTION IN DIFFERENT FORUMS

SECTION VI—MANAGING CLIENT OBLIGATION AND SETTLEMENTS

SECTION VII—PREPARING FOR TRIAL

SECTION VIII—TRIAL

SECTION IX—LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FOR THE PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEY

Product Information and Pricing                                                                                                          
PN: 4181 | 2009 | 1,734 pages | loose-leaf | two volumes
NYSBA Members $175| Non-members $225

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