What We Do
Zivotov Law | New York City and Long Island
Serious injuries deserve more than a formula
The type of accident is only the beginning. A strong case depends on understanding how it happened, preserving the evidence, recognizing every injury, and explaining what the harm has changed in a person’s life.
Start with what happened
Different accidents call for different law, investigation, experts, and deadlines. Choose the setting that best describes what happened. If none fits neatly, contact us. Real cases rarely arrive in perfect categories.
Motor-vehicle accidents
Car, pedestrian, bicycle, rideshare, commercial-vehicle, and multi-vehicle collisions. We look beyond the police report, preserve available evidence, identify every source of insurance, and account for New York’s changing motor-vehicle law.
Explore motor-vehicle casesConstruction accidents
Falls from ladders, scaffolds, roofs, openings, and other elevation-related hazards, together with unsafe worksite conditions. These cases demand early investigation and command of Labor Law Sections 240, 241(6), and 200.
Explore construction casesPremises liability
Falls and injuries caused by ice, water, broken stairs, defective walkways, inadequate lighting, unsafe railings, and other property conditions. Conditions can disappear quickly, making prompt investigation especially important.
Explore premises casesThen understand the whole injury
The same accident may produce injuries that require very different medical and legal development. A diagnosis is not the end of the analysis.
Traumatic brain injuries
A TBI may be missed when there was no loss of consciousness, imaging appears normal, or treatment focused on more visible injuries. We examine the person’s actual changes in cognition, sleep, mood, work, relationships, and daily function.
Learn about traumatic brain injuriesFractures and orthopedic injuries
An X-ray may show the first injury without showing the entire future. Altered gait, overuse of another limb, arthritis, chronic pain, additional surgery, and the emotional consequences of lost function may unfold over time.
Learn about orthopedic consequencesOther serious injury matters
Zivotov Law also evaluates wrongful-death, medical-malpractice, product-liability, and other negligence claims. Some matters overlap several areas of law. A free consultation allows us to identify the issues, the applicable deadlines, and whether another trusted lawyer should be involved.
How Zivotov Law approaches a case
We do not stop at the easiest label or the first explanation. The work is to understand the facts deeply enough to find what others missed.
Investigate early
We identify responsible parties, secure records and video, examine the scene, and preserve witness accounts before the evidence changes or disappears.
Question assumptions
Police reports, incident reports, defense narratives, and even an injured person’s first account can be incomplete or wrong. We test them against the physical, medical, and testimonial evidence.
See the whole loss
We follow recovery, ask what has changed, connect the medicine to daily life, and develop consequences that can be overlooked when a case is treated as a quick transaction.
Selected results
These matters illustrate the depth of analysis required when the obvious story was incomplete.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case depends on its own facts, injuries, evidence, available insurance, and law.
Do not wait to learn which category applies
The consultation is free. Some claims involving municipalities or public authorities may require action within as little as 90 days, while video, scene conditions, and witness memories can disappear much sooner. Tell us what happened; identifying the legal path is our job.