Flatbush sits in central Brooklyn, between Prospect Park and Midwood, and its avenues stay full of cars, buses, and people on foot from morning into the night. When someone in Flatbush, Brooklyn gets hurt because a driver, a landlord, a store, or a contractor was careless, Mashriqi Law can carry the claim for them. As a Flatbush personal injury lawyer, Attorney Yasmeen Mashriqi leads a small team that deals with insurers, forms, and deadlines while you recover. We work from 7707 Parsons Blvd in Flushing, Queens, and we take cases from every part of New York State.
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Maybe you were stopped where Flatbush Avenue meets Church Avenue, or crossing Nostrand Avenue near the Junction. One careless move later, there are doctor visits, missed paychecks, and an adjuster calling your phone. People who look for a Flatbush car accident attorney usually want someone who picks up and someone who keeps the file moving.
A dedicated case manager sends you regular updates, and you can reach your attorney directly any time you want to talk with her. Clients have given Mashriqi Law a 5-star rating on Google.
From week one, your case manager tracks the file and checks in on a schedule. Attorney Mashriqi stays within reach as well. If an offer lands or a choice worries you, your Flatbush injury lawyer will talk it through with you herself.
We explain each stage before it starts. You always know where your Flatbush claim stands.
Hard to get around Flatbush right now? Call, and your Flatbush personal injury lawyer or a team member can meet you at home, beside your hospital bed, or at another spot in New York. Rather skip meetings altogether? We can run the whole matter by phone, video, email, and e-signature.
Proof fades fast on Flatbush streets. Shop cameras along Church Avenue record over themselves, damaged cars get repaired, and witnesses drift back into their routines. A Flatbush accident attorney on our team moves early to save that evidence and open the right claims.
Your first meeting with a Flatbush personal injury attorney is free, and every case runs on contingency. No recovery means no fee and no charge for costs or expenses.
Flatbush Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, and Ocean Avenue carry north-south traffic through the neighborhood, while Church Avenue, Caton Avenue, and Linden Boulevard run east to west. The B and Q trains use the Brighton Line, the 2 and 5 trains end at Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College, and the B41 and B44 buses run the length of the area. A Flatbush personal injury lawyer has to know which rules fit each kind of crash or fall.
Car crashes bring us many Flatbush calls: rear-end hits near the Junction, turning collisions on Church Avenue, and side-swipes on narrow blocks lined with parked cars. Texting and holding a phone behind the wheel are banned in New York. State law also requires a reasonable, prudent speed given the weather and traffic, and NYC's default limit is 25 mph unless signs say otherwise. A Flatbush car accident lawyer uses those rules to show who broke them.
Under New York's no-fault system, people riding in a car usually claim through the policy on that car, whoever caused the wreck. No-fault generally covers up to $50,000 in necessary medical treatment plus a share of lost pay, generally 80% of wages, capped at $2,000 a month, for as long as three years. Pain and suffering are not part of it. File the no-fault application within 30 days, generally.
For a Flatbush car accident lawyer, suing the at-fault driver takes a "serious injury" under Insurance Law § 5102(d). That statutory list covers, among other things, fractures, significant disfigurement, permanent loss of use of a body organ or member, and significant limitation of use of a body function or system. Suits started May 26, 2026 or later no longer have the old "90/180-day" category. Our Flatbush car accident attorney requests the police report, preserves video, and finds every policy, including your own SUM coverage.
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Box trucks, delivery vans, and sanitation trucks share Flatbush Avenue and Linden Boulevard with everyone else, and NYC generally requires trucks to stay on its designated truck route network. A Flatbush truck accident lawyer looks at the driver, the carrier or employer, the owner, whoever loaded the cargo, the maintenance shop, and any parts maker. Interstate trucking falls under the FMCSA, whose hours-of-service rules limit driving time, and most commercial trucks track those hours on electronic logging devices, while drivers face federal drug and alcohol testing. Interstate for-hire carriers of general freight need at least $750,000 in liability coverage, and certain cargo, like hazardous materials, needs more. Engine or "black box" data can show speed and braking, so a Flatbush truck accident attorney sends spoliation letters quickly. No-fault, the serious-injury test, and the 2026 fault rule all reach truck cases.
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Riders are not covered by New York no-fault for their own injuries. Treatment and lost pay may depend on a claim against the driver at fault, along with health insurance or other coverage. A Flatbush motorcycle accident lawyer gathers photos, video, and witness accounts that show what actually happened.
People walk Flatbush Avenue, Church Avenue, and the blocks around Brooklyn College all day. New York drivers owe pedestrians due care, and at a crosswalk with no signal they must yield to anyone crossing in it. Under the NYC Right of Way Law, a driver who fails to yield to a pedestrian or cyclist with the right of way and causes injury commits a crime. For a pedestrian, no-fault generally flows from a car policy someone in your home carries, or else from the policy on the striking car. A parking-lot or driveway hit still qualifies. A Flatbush pedestrian accident lawyer treats these as motor-vehicle claims, so the serious-injury rule and the 2026 fault change apply. Fleeing a crash that injures someone is a crime in New York, and UM coverage or MVAIC may pay after a hit-and-run, subject to strict notice rules.
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Cyclists leave the Prospect Park loop and the Parade Ground area and merge into car traffic on Ocean Avenue and Flatbush Avenue. No-fault for a cyclist hit by a car generally comes from a household auto policy, or failing that, from the car that hit you. Once the serious-injury definition is met, a Flatbush bicycle accident lawyer can pursue the full claim against the driver.
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Yellow cabs and for-hire cars in NYC, Uber and Lyft included, hold TLC licenses and must be insured, and more than one policy may apply. We help passengers, occupants of the other vehicle, people on foot or on bikes, and rideshare drivers hurt by someone else. A Flatbush Uber accident lawyer checks each driver's coverage and any policy in your home.
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The B41, the B44, express buses, and school buses all move through Flatbush, and a Flatbush bus accident attorney handles crashes involving each. For a claim against the MTA, NYC Transit, or MTA Bus Company, serve a notice of claim generally inside 90 days and file suit generally inside 1 year and 90 days. Private companies often run city school buses under contract, and those claims generally follow the three-year limit unless a public body is involved. A rider thrown by a sudden stop generally must show the movement was unusual and violent, beyond ordinary jerks and jolts. Fault rules for vehicle cases changed in 2026, and a Flatbush bus accident lawyer will review what that means for your bus case.
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Crews renovate older Flatbush houses and put up new apartment buildings. For a Flatbush construction accident attorney, the starting point is often Labor Law § 240(1), the "Scaffold Law," which makes owners and general contractors answer for gravity-related harm, like a fall from a ladder, scaffold, or roof, or a blow from a falling object, where proper safety devices were missing. A worker's own carelessness generally is no defense, though exceptions exist, such as when that conduct was the sole cause. § 241(6) requires compliance with specific Industrial Code rules, and § 200 codifies the duty to keep a workplace reasonably safe. Owners of a one- or two-family house who neither direct nor control the job are generally exempt from §§ 240 and 241. Comp is generally the only remedy against your own employer, outside limited exceptions like certain grave injuries, yet a Flatbush construction accident lawyer can still sue owners and contractors as third parties. Immigration status generally does not bar the claim.
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Comp usually blocks suing your employer, though an outside party, like a careless driver or a property owner, may face a separate claim. Notify your employer in writing within 30 days, and get a claim to the state Workers' Compensation Board, generally inside 2 years. A Flatbush work injury lawyer can review both paths.
Owners must keep property reasonably safe. A Flatbush slip and fall lawyer sees wet grocery-store floors, broken apartment stairs, and icy entrances. You generally must prove the owner caused the hazard, or was aware of it (or ought to have been) and never fixed it.
Across NYC, the adjacent property owner usually maintains the sidewalk, though the City may be responsible for certain owner-occupied one- to three-family homes. A claim against the City needs a 90-day notice and may need proof of prior written notice of the defect. A Flatbush trip and fall lawyer sorts out who is responsible early.
An owner can be liable if they were aware, or ought to have been aware, that the dog had dangerous tendencies. Medical costs may be recoverable when the dog had been found "dangerous" under state law. Homeowner's or renter's insurance often covers bites, which gives a Flatbush dog bite lawyer a source to pursue.
A death claim belongs to the estate's personal representative, so families usually need the Surrogate's Court to name an administrator or executor first. Damages can include funeral costs and the family's financial losses, and a related claim may cover conscious pain and suffering before death. The general limit is 2 years from the date of death, and pure comparative fault still applies. A Flatbush wrongful death lawyer can guide the family through each step.
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Riders use the Church Avenue, Beverley Road, and Cortelyou Road stations on the Brighton Line and the Nostrand Avenue Line stops. Stairs, platform gaps, and closing doors cause injuries. Because the subway is an MTA agency, a Flatbush subway accident lawyer must serve notice within 90 days and sue within 1 year and 90 days.
Delivery riders on e-bikes and commuters on scooters cross Flatbush daily, and turning cars, open doors, and potholes knock them down. A Flatbush e-bike accident lawyer reviews the driver's policy, household policies, and any other coverage.
Brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations, and severe burns reshape a life. We work with your doctors, and outside professionals when useful, to document lifetime care and lost earning ability. A Flatbush catastrophic injury lawyer builds the claim around the years ahead.
Exceptions exist, and some deadlines run shorter, so talk to a Flatbush personal injury attorney early.
Falls, construction injuries, and other non-vehicle cases use pure comparative negligence: your share of fault lowers the award but never erases the claim. Wrongful death actions stay pure comparative too, as a Flatbush wrongful death attorney will explain.
Vehicle cases changed in 2026. Under CPLR § 1411(b), in a motor-vehicle injury suit started May 26, 2026 or later, a claimant more at fault than the defendants recovers nothing. A claimant whose share is not greater gets an award cut by that share. Juries decide fault before deciding whether the injury is serious, which makes the fault fight central for a Flatbush car accident attorney.
No-fault pays core economic losses regardless of blame but leaves out pain and suffering. Suing the driver for those losses requires an injury that meets the serious-injury definition, so we stay in close contact with your providers.
Damages may include:
Punitive damages arise only rarely, for especially reckless conduct. A Flatbush personal injury lawyer reviews each category that fits your facts. To get started, the Personal Injury Calculator lets you send us the basics, and an attorney follows up.
Adrenaline masks pain, and scans can reveal damage weeks later. After Flatbush crashes and falls we often see concussions, whiplash, traumatic brain injury, herniated discs, fractured wrists, hips, and ribs, torn knees and shoulders, spinal cord damage, scarring and burns, and anxiety or PTSD.
Early, steady treatment protects your health and gives a Flatbush car accident attorney the medical proof the claim needs.
Insurers pay on proof. Our Flatbush accident attorney team collects police and incident reports, video from buses, doorbells, and businesses along Flatbush and Church Avenues (much of it overwritten within days or weeks), scene photos, witness statements, medical records and bills, pay records, and company files for trucks, buses, and rideshare cars.
Several coverages may pay after a Flatbush car accident:
VTL § 388 generally makes an owner answer for anyone driving the car with permission.
Adjusters work for the insurer, not for you or your Flatbush car accident lawyer. Expect calls for a recorded statement, blame on an old condition, attacks on treatment gaps, social media digging, and fast low offers. Early offers are often low, and a signed release usually ends the claim. Once a Flatbush car accident attorney represents you, insurers call us.
1. Free Case Review. An honest first look at your claim, at no cost.
2. Treatment. You heal while we investigate and handle insurers.
3. Negotiations. Your Flatbush injury lawyer sends a full demand and presses for fair payment, ready to sue if needed.
4. Payout. After you approve a settlement, we handle disbursement until funds reach you.
Our office is at 7707 Parsons Blvd, 11366 in Flushing, and your Flatbush injury lawyer travels to you. A Flatbush lawsuit is often filed in Kings County Supreme Court, located in Downtown Brooklyn. We help people across Flatbush and next door, including:
Ditmas Park · Prospect Park South · Prospect Lefferts Gardens · East Flatbush · Midwood · Kensington · Crown Heights · Fiske Terrace
From Brooklyn College and Erasmus Hall High School to the Kings Theatre and the Parade Ground, a Flatbush personal injury lawyer from our firm can meet you nearby. We serve all of New York State, and we will come to you.
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A Flatbush personal injury lawyer from our firm charges nothing upfront. If there is no recovery, you owe us nothing, not an attorney's fee and not the case costs or expenses.
Usually 3 years. City and MTA claims need notice inside 90 days, and death claims generally have 2 years.
Yes. It pays medical bills and some lost wages regardless of fault, but not pain and suffering.
In non-vehicle cases, yes, minus your share. In vehicle suits begun May 26, 2026 or later, being more at fault than the defendants bars recovery.
That turns on your injuries, treatment, lost income, daily-life impact, and available insurance. A free review with a Flatbush injury lawyer is the place to start.
Some settle in months; serious injuries or a lawsuit take longer.
Tell your own insurer and file for no-fault, but call us before any recorded statement.
Have a lawyer review it first. A signed release usually ends your claim.
UM or SUM coverage may help, and MVAIC may pay if your household has no policy. A Flatbush accident attorney should check those notice deadlines fast.
Generally, no.
Yes. A Flatbush injury lawyer from our office can meet you anywhere in New York, or we can work fully remotely.
Yes. Mild soreness can turn out to be a disc or ligament injury.
Yes, as long as your deadlines are still open.
Yes. You have the right to switch.
Federal law generally does not tax physical-injury compensation as income, though parts may differ. Check with a tax professional.
Hurt in Flatbush? Reach out to a Flatbush car accident attorney today. Attorney Mashriqi will answer your questions, lay out your choices, and work for the compensation you are owed.
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