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Long Island City Personal Injury Lawyer

The most active construction zone in Queens, wrapped around Queens Plaza and the bridge approaches. Free consultation, and you pay nothing unless we win.

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Injury cases in Long Island City

Long Island City has been among the busiest construction environments in New York City for more than a decade, and that dominates the local case mix. High-rise residential towers, conversions of industrial buildings, façade and hoisting operations, and interior fit-outs generate the full range of Labor Law § 240(1) elevation cases — falls from scaffolds, ladders and platforms, and objects falling on workers below.
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    Where the statute applies, the owner and general contractor face absolute liability and comparative fault does not reduce the recovery.

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    The traffic side is Queens Plaza, Jackson Avenue, Vernon Boulevard, Northern Boulevard and the approaches to the Queensboro Bridge and the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, where commuter, truck and cyclist traffic mix at high volume.

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    The neighbourhood also has substantial warehouse, film-production and last-mile logistics employment, which produces workplace injuries where a third party — a site owner, a contractor, an equipment supplier — is liable alongside the employer.

How we help injured people in Long Island City

The cases we handle most often here. See all of our practice areas.

Car Accidents

No-fault filed on time, the serious-injury threshold, hit-and-run and uninsured drivers.

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Slip and Fall

Store floors, stairwells, parking lots and ice — won on evidence secured in the first days.

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Construction Accidents

Labor Law 240 and 241 give construction workers rights no other worker has.

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Pedestrian Accidents

The vehicle's no-fault coverage pays your bills, even though no policy of yours is involved.

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Workers' Compensation

Comp plus the third-party claim most injured workers are never told about.

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All practice areas

Truck, motorcycle, medical malpractice, product liability, wrongful death and more.

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Local, and on your side

Why people in Long Island City call this firm

  • A New York personal injury firm since 1957, with over $350 million recovered
  • Our Kew Gardens office serves Long Island City — and we come to you if you cannot travel
  • A partner works on your case directly, not an associate
  • Free consultation, and you pay nothing unless we win
  • Open 24 hours — call when it happens
  • Cases handled in English and Spanish

Verdicts and settlements

Results obtained by this firm

  • $7,500,000

    Verdict for wrongful death, against landlord, caused by fire that spread through apartment that was without smoke detectors.

  • $4,400,000

    Verdict for motor vehicle accident causing spinal injuries requiring surgery.

  • $4,000,000

    For a truck driver struck in the rear by a bus sustaining a brain injury.

All results

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different, and the result in any case depends on its own facts.

In their words

What our clients say

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If there was more than 5 stars Seth Fields and his associates would get them all. Mr. FIelds went to trial with a jury in Suffolk Cty Riverhead Supreme Ct & won w/ a verdict in minutes for 100% Liability. The defense worked with Mr. FIelds in a settlement before the damages trial began. I would stop here searching any further & contact Seth Fields if you want a Smart, Attainable for your questions, concerns, Empathetic to your needs but a Bull Dog with your case, then you found your attorney.I can’t thank you enough for all your long hours, weekends, holidays that you put into 7 yrs of all my medical, motions, hearings & trial etc. WE WON! You did it and obtained a large settlement that I couldn’t be more happy after this long tough journey. I would refer everyone to you that has a case that needs fighting for. 🙏
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Questions from Long Island City

Not answered here? A lawyer will answer it, free and at any hour.

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I fell on a construction site in LIC.
You likely have both a workers' compensation claim and a Labor Law claim against the owner and general contractor. Under § 240(1) an elevation-related fall generally carries absolute liability, and being told the accident was your own fault does not change that.
Who else could be responsible on a site like that?
The owner, the construction manager, the general contractor, other trades' subcontractors, and equipment manufacturers or lessors. Identifying every entity early decides how much insurance stands behind the claim.
I am paid off the books.
That does not remove your rights. The Labor Law protects the worker on the site, and workers' compensation covers employees regardless of how they are paid or of immigration status.

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