Ivan M. Diamond: Your Bronx Personal Injury Lawyer and Accident Attorney
Injuries can be both physically and emotionally devastating to you and your loved ones. The aftermath can be just as devastating and confusing—after all, what happens now? Who do you turn to? What exactly should you do to protect your rights? The insurance companies certainly don’t have your interests at heart, as they will do what’s best for those who caused your injuries, their claimants, and not you.
Have you or a loved one suffered injuries in an accident in the Bronx or New York metro area? Do you wonder whether you can obtain financial compensation for your injuries? As a leading personal injury and accident law firm for Bronx residents, the Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond is here to help.
There are dozens of attorneys to choose from who will promise you they will fight for what’s best for you. The reality is that many attorneys want to churn out cases without truly fighting for what their clients deserve.
Ivan M. Diamond, a lawyer based in the Bronx, helps injured people in the five boroughs of New York City. He believes that when it comes to representing the injured, a one-on-one relationship with an attorney from the very beginning is crucial to obtaining maximum compensation. We are a small firm by design, and we are selective in the cases we take on.
From the initial intake to trial—and every step of the way in between—personal injury attorney Ivan M. Diamond represents you and personally fights for your interests. The results speak for themselves. That’s why we consider ourselves to be a “small firm with big results.”
As an attorney who regularly represents accident victims, I have the resources and experience to help victims of tragedy recover the compensation they deserve. I know how difficult it can be to recover financially from unexpected medical bills and time away from work, as well as to deal with the physical and emotional toll an injury or tragic loss can take.
I have years of experience representing injured accident victims and their families. My clients’ health and wellbeing are my number one priority. Contact me today to schedule a free case review.
A Track Record of Success Aiding Accident Victims
Not all injury and accident attorneys are created equal. When looking for the right injury and accident attorney in the Bronx, take a look at my proven track record of success representing accident victims. Of course, my past results are no guarantee of recovery in any future representation, but I am committed to working my hardest for every personal injury client I represent. To demonstrate that commitment, I am available for appointments on evenings and weekends. I am even available for home and hospital visits if necessary.
Common Types of Injuries I Handle
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 30.8 million hospital emergency department visits for injuries and 146,571 deaths due to unintentional injuries in a single recent year in the United States. The majority of these injuries were from slips and falls, motor vehicle accidents, truck accidents, and unintentional poisoning.
When potential clients call our office, they are often struggling with traumatic physical injuries of varying types and severity.
I help people with many different injuries, including:
- Traumatic brain injury – Any direct head trauma or violent jolt of the head can cause damage to the brain tissue. TBIs are always serious injuries that need immediate medical attention, even if the symptoms do not seem that severe right away. What appears to be a milder TBI can worsen and result in long-term effects and impairments, which can impact a victim’s cognitive, behavioral, and physical abilities.
- Spinal cord injury – With your brain, your spinal cord is one of the most critical parts of your body that facilitates bodily functioning. When your spinal cord suffers trauma, it can result in paralysis below the point of the injury. In instances of complete spinal cord injuries, paralysis is permanent, and it will completely change your life, often requiring long-term care and assistance.
- Burns – Burns are extremely painful injuries, and severe burns can be catastrophic. Third-degree burns damage all layers of your skin and possibly tissue below the skin. Victims often need to spend weeks in burn centers for infection preventing and healing. They likely need multiple skin grafts and other painful procedures. Also, even with proper treatment, burns can leave victims with permanent scars, disfigurement, or amputations.
- Broken bones – Often, people consider broken bones to be relatively minor injuries, but this is a mistake. Fractures always require immediate medical treatment and, without it, they can heal improperly and cause permanent impairments and chronic pain. Many broken bones, such as compound fractures, require emergency surgery, and multiple procedures over time. If an older adult sustains a broken hip, they often cannot return home and need to move to an assisted living facility.
- Amputations – Amputations are highly traumatic injuries, both physically and mentally. Amputations can happen in the course of an accident or might be surgically necessary due to crush injuries, burns, and more. Losing a body part is permanent and prevents many people from living life as they once did. Prosthetics can be costly and need replacement regularly.
- Internal injuries – These injuries are not visible, but they are often life-threatening and some of the most serious types of injuries. Internal organ damage or hemorrhaging needs immediate trauma care, including surgery, time in the intensive care unit, and more. Recovery time from these injuries can take a long time.
- Soft tissue damage – Sprains, strains, and tears need ongoing treatment and possible surgery to heal. These injuries cause pain and mobility issues, which can prevent you from working or participating in your everyday activities as usual.
When you suffer injuries because someone else was negligent, there are two options available to you. You can try to work with an insurance company to settle a claim yourself or work with a Bronx personal injury lawyer who can negotiate for you.
Insurance companies almost always attempt to settle claims for less than what you deserve. However, once you have the right legal representation, they know they cannot use their usual tactics to limit your settlement. Attorney Ivan Diamond knows how to stand up to insurers to get our clients the full amount they need to cover their losses and move forward following an injury.
Personal Injury Lawsuits
When you are injured because someone else was negligent, there are two options available to you. The first is working through an insurance company to settle a claim or to work with an Bronx personal injury lawyer. Insurance companies nearly always attempt to settle claims for less than what you may obtain by filing a personal injury suit.
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Common Types of Accidents That Cause My Clients’ Injuries
Injuries can result from a wide variety of life events, many of which are wholly unexpected. An accident can happen in an instant and have lasting physical, mental, and financial effects.
Many types of accidents result in serious injuries and lead to insurance claims or lawsuits. Our firm frequently represents clients injured in motor vehicle accident cases, including those involving drunk, distracted, or reckless drivers. We also handle cases stemming from motorcycle accidents due to negligent drivers, defective bikes, and more.
While we handle many traffic cases, that is far from all we do.
We can help people injured in many different ways, including:
Employer negligence or misconduct
Nursing home neglect or abuse
Slip and fall accidents
Medical malpractice and birth injuries
Subway injuries
Accidents from defective products
Dog bites
Below is some additional information about complex injury cases we take on.
Traffic Accidents
If you have ever driven a vehicle in the Bronx or anywhere in New York City, you know about the risks of accidents. With traffic, aggressive drivers, drivers who are unsure of where they are going, and more, there is no surprise that these crashes happen regularly.
Following an accident in the Bronx, always get the medical help you need, and then call injury and accident attorney Ivan Diamond. The aftermath of a car accident can be just as stressful as traffic in the Bronx, but we are here to help you take the right course of action to hold others responsible for their negligence and your losses.
We handle all types of car accident cases, including:
- Rear-end collisions
- Head-on collisions
- Red light accidents
- Distracted driving crashes
- Drunk driving crashes
- Motorcycle collisions
- Truck accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Reckless driving accidents
- Multi-vehicle pile-ups
- Single car rollovers
- Scooter accidents
- Uber and Lyft crashes
- Taxi accidents
Workplace Injuries and Accidents
Many injuries happen on the job and for many reasons, such as a crush injury that happened after an employer failed to implement appropriate safety measures for his employees, or failed to maintain work equipment in safe conditions. These injuries can require medical treatment, time off work, and have lasting consequences, and you may not know the right avenues to seek compensation.
Our firm helps injured workers obtain workers’ compensation benefits following an injury on the job, but our representation does not stop there. Often, a workplace accident happens because one or more third parties were negligent or violated safety regulations and standards. This can give injured workers the right to file injury claims against third parties, which can cover all of their losses.
Medical Malpractice
We rely on doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other medical professionals to help us when we’re sick or injured, assuming our conditions will improve. We trust them to take care of us, and in many cases, we put our lives in their hands. However, sometimes, these healthcare providers betray our trust and their duty of care when they make serious medical errors.
When doctors, hospitals, and others in the medical field make grave mistakes, catastrophic, even deadly, consequences can result.
The illnesses and injuries that can result from medical malpractice are almost endless and include:
Birth injuries
Failure to diagnose cancer or other serious illness
Surgical errors
Medication and prescription mistakes
Hospital-acquired infections
Delay of treatment
Our small firm, big results approach to medical malpractice is client-centered and targeted to achieve maximum compensation for our clients. Because of this, our Bronx-based lawyer serving the five boroughs of New York City has achieved multiple million dollar recoveries in all types of medical malpractice cases. We face off against hospitals, doctors, and their insurers to protect your rights.
Common Types of Damages My Clients May Recover
- Medical bills, especially ones not covered by insurance, that piled up because of treatment for their physical injuries.
- The estimated cost of future medical treatment they will need for serious and lasting injuries.
- The expense of adapting their lives to unexpected temporary or permanent disabilities.
- The pain and emotional suffering they’ve endured, and the loss of enjoyment of life and relationships.
- Lost wages and household income that our clients would have earned if the victim didn’t need to take time away from work to heal.
- Future lost earning power if an injury prevents them from returning to their previous jobs.
- In extreme cases, punitive damages that intend to punish the wrongdoers.
- Damages for wrongful death if an injury was fatal.
It is my number-one goal to obtain the full amount each client deserves in every single case. The insurance companies will try to do the opposite. They are businesses trying to protect their bottom lines, so you need the right legal advocate trying to protect your best interests.
If someone else was responsible for causing your injuries, they should be responsible for covering your losses.
Our firm will:
- Identify all potentially liable parties
- File the necessary insurance claims with supporting evidence
- Negotiate for the settlement you deserve
- Advise you whether to accept a particular settlement or not
- File a lawsuit in court when necessary to obtain the amount you deserve
You should focus on your physical recovery, so let The Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond focus on your financial recovery.
My injured clients often deserve compensation for a variety of expenses and damages they’ve sustained as a result of an accident. My clients frequently recover payment for:
- Medical bills, especially ones not covered by insurance, that piled up because of treatment for their physical injuries.
- The expense of adapting their lives to unexpected temporary or permanent disabilities.
- The pain and emotional suffering they’ve endured, and the loss of enjoyment of life and relationships.
- Lost wages and household income that would have been earned if the victim didn’t have to take time away from work to heal.
- In extreme cases, punitive damages intended to punish the wrongdoers.
Construction Injuries and Accidents
Some work sites can present specific and increased hazards, such as construction sites. Construction is one of the most accident and injury-prone industries, with common accidents resulting in catastrophic or even fatal injuries regularly. This is especially true in the landscape of New York City’s five boroughs.
Victims of scaffolding accidents, slip and fall accidents, or ladder-related accidents often need a personal injury attorney to treat them fairly and help them recover financially from the high cost of medical treatment, lost wages, and more.
Why Hire an Experienced Attorney Like Ivan Diamond
If you want to recover the maximum compensation that you deserve, you need an experienced personal injury attorney like Ivan Diamond on your side. Someone who understands the tactics insurance companies and opposing lawyers sometimes use to avoid liability and paying settlements.
Insurance adjusters, in particular, know that you’re going through a difficult time. They may try to take advantage by offering you a lowball settlement, hoping you’ll jump at quick money before you talk to a lawyer. Don’t help them out. Instead, let an experienced attorney handle the negotiations.
The same goes for preparing your claim. A skilled, knowledgeable litigator like me understands what facts and arguments are most important to prove your claim to a judge and jury, if it comes to taking a case to trial. I know how to guide my clients through depositions, discovery, and efforts by opposing lawyers to trap them into saying things that might undermine their case.
Don’t Wait to Get Help from a Bronx Personal Injury Lawyer You Can Count On
The Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond fully dedicate ourselves to our clients, who are injured accident victims just like you. If you’re wondering about your options following a serious injury, look no further. We’re here to stand up for your rights to insurance companies and fight for the full financial recovery you deserve. Contact us today to learn more!
A Tough, Compassionate Bronx, New York Injury Lawyer
My primary goal in any case I take on is to obtain the maximum compensation for my clients. The people I represent work hard. They didn’t ask to be injured and now they’re left to contend with lost income, enormous medical and hospital bills, pain and suffering, emotional strife and the loss of self-esteem that often occurs after a serious injury. We realize money is never going to bring you back to the way you were before the accident, but it’s a start.
When you’re injured and struggling to recover after an accident, you certainly don’t have extra money to pay an attorney—especially if your ability to earn income is compromised by an injury. That’s why I take cases on a contingency fee basis. You don’t have to come up with thousands of dollars to talk to me or to finance your representation. You pay nothing up front and I get paid my fees only if you recover compensation through settlement or a jury verdict. And, of course, the initial case review with my office is always free of charge.
Call Today for Your Free Consultation
If you were injured due to someone else’s negligence or medical malpractice, or if you have lost a family member in a wrongful death, act quickly. The law limits the time you have to file a claim. The insurance companies on the other side begin investigating immediately and they won’t hesitate to challenge your rights at every turn. They may even pressure you to accept a settlement worth far less than what you deserve.
If you were injured in a Bronx-area accident that wasn’t your fault, or you’ve lost a loved one to a tragedy, you may be entitled to compensation. Having an experienced injury and accident lawyer on your side can be your best shot at recovering the maximum you deserve. Don’t wait.
At the Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond, your Bronx-based, small firm, big results New York City injury attorney, we can help get your life back on track and obtain the full compensation you deserve.
Email the Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond or call us at (718) 588-2000 to schedule a free case review. You can also visit us in person at our Bronx location on 888 Grand Concourse #1L—or, if necessary, we’ll come to you.
Additional Personal Injury Frequently Asked Questions [FAQs]
The following are only some of the many questions our Bronx personal injury lawyers at the Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond can answer. For specific questions, please contact our office directly.
When can I seek compensation after a personal injury?
Not all accidents entitle injured victims to compensation. To recover compensation for your accident-related losses, your accident must have been the result of someone else’s negligence. Negligence occurs when a person fails to use the degree of care that would ordinarily be used by a reasonable person in the same or similar circumstances.
In addition, under a legal doctrine known as negligence per se, a person can be deemed negligent as a matter of law when they violate a safety regulation and cause the type of harm the regulation was intended to prevent. For example, if a person is violating the speed limit and causes an accident, the law may deem that person negligent.
What is my personal injury claim worth?
Every personal injury case is different, and there is no way to advise you on the value of your case without evaluating your specific injuries and losses. Claims stemming from relatively minor injuries will be worth significantly less than cases involving catastrophic injuries. That being said, if someone else’s actions led you to incur any losses at all, you deserve to receive compensation.
The best way to know the potential worth of your claim is to consult with a Bronx personal injury attorney at the Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond.
However, the following are some common damages that we can add up to determine the value of a claim:
- Medical bills for emergency care, hospitalization, surgery, physical therapy, medication, and more
- The estimated costs of medical treatment that doctors recommend for the future
- Lost income if your injury or treatment prevented you from working
- Lost future earnings if you can’t return to your previous job
- Physical and mental pain and suffering
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Permanent disfigurement or disabilities
Less serious cases will focus mostly on financial losses like medical bills and lost wages. Severe and long-term injuries can lead to many intangible losses, as well. Furthermore, if the at-fault party’s conduct was particularly egregious, you might even be entitled to punitive damages, which can increase the value of your case substantially.
Do I need a lawyer for your personal injury case?
Yes.
After an accident, you may wonder if you really need to retain an attorney to represent you, especially if the insurance company has indicated that it wants to settle your case. The fact is that insurance companies are highly incentivized to pay out as little as possible, and often take advantage of accident victims who try to represent themselves.
Some of the ways they may try to settle your case for less than it is actually worth include:
- Making an unreasonably low initial offer
- Making an offer before you have had a chance to speak with an attorney
- Misrepresenting your legal rights (for example, telling you you cannot recover for pain and suffering through an insurance claim)
- Waiting until your medical and other bills are piling up before making an offer
- Requesting overboard medical record authorizations to find a pre-existing condition
Call us. We can protect you from those tactics.
Will my case go to trial?
Many people think that by calling a lawyer, it means that they are on the way into court. In reality, a very small percentage of personal injury claims make it to the trial stage. In fact, many claims do not even require filing a lawsuit in civil court. Instead, a personal injury attorney can often resolve the matter directly with the insurance company.
If an insurance company is willing to offer a settlement that covers your damages, you can accept the offer and move forward with your life. If you cannot resolve your case with the insurance company, your attorney might file a lawsuit, though this still does not mean you are heading to court. Instead, lawyers will negotiate through every stage of the litigation process.
Many defendants and their insurers want to avoid the uncertainty of trial. In a trial, the jury will decide who wins and what to award the injured plaintiff if they prevail. However, in settlement negotiations, the defendant and their insurer have greater control over what damages they agree to. For this reason, many cases settle out of court and with a favorable amount that covers your losses.
Should I accept an insurance settlement?
Whether you should accept an insurance settlement depends on whether the insurance company is making an offer that adequately compensates you for all of your losses, as well as other factors. Victims of accidental injuries are entitled to compensation for their economic and non-economic losses, including their medical expenses, lost income, property damage, physical and emotional pain and suffering, and lost quality of life.
You only get one chance to settle your case, so any settlement you accept should compensate you for your current losses and any losses you expect to experience in the future. That’s why you need to call us. We know how to handle personal injury claims and accurately value a case.
If you do not settle your case with the insurance company, your only recourse for recovering compensation will be going to trial. For this reason, another factor to consider when determining whether you should settle includes the relative strength of your case. In addition, keep in mind that what happens in court is a matter of public record, so if there’s anything about your injuries or medical history you would like to keep private, settling is probably your best option.
When is it time to call a Bronx personal injury attorney?
Following an injury, it is natural that you are first focused on your diagnosis and treatment. Recovering from an injury can be an arduous process, and you likely do not want to add anything else to your plate. However, the sooner you can consult a Bronx personal injury attorney, the better.
New York law puts a three-year time limit on most personal injury cases. This might seem long, but the insurance process can take a long time, as can preparing a lawsuit. Additionally, evidence and witness recollections can disappear or fade, which can make it more difficult to prove your claim the longer you wait. Instead, speak with a Bronx personal injury lawyer at the Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond today.
The Law Offices of Ivan M. Diamond
888 Grand Concourse #1L Bronx, NY 10451 Phone: (718) 588-2000
Ivan M. Diamond is available for home and hospital visits, as well as weekend and evening appointments.