Syracuse Brain Injury Lawyers

A brain injury changes the person, not just the body. If you or someone in your family suffered a traumatic brain injury anywhere in New York, you are likely facing two problems at once. The medical picture is uncertain and no one will give you a straight answer about recovery, while an insurance company has already decided the injury is not as serious as you say. A New York brain injury lawyer takes the second problem off your family’s plate so you can concentrate on the first.

Porter Law Group represents people living with brain injuries across New York State, from Syracuse and Central New York to Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and New York City. We handle the investigation, the medical records, the neuropsychological and life care evidence that shows an invisible injury is real, the negotiation with the carriers, and the trial if the offer never reflects what happened. Consultations are free, and we take brain injury cases on a contingency fee basis, so there is no fee unless we win.

Why Choose Porter Law Group for a New York Brain Injury Claim

Brain injury claims are defended differently from other injury cases. The carrier rarely argues that the crash or the fall did not happen. It argues about what the injury actually is. The scan was clean. The symptoms are stress, or age, or a pre-existing condition. Those defenses are answered with objective testing, treating records, and witnesses who knew the person before, not with argument.

When a Brain Injury Case Needs a Lawyer

You should speak with an attorney when any of the following apply:

• There was any loss of consciousness, memory gap, or confusion around the event, even briefly.
• Imaging came back normal, but the headaches, dizziness, light sensitivity, or fog have not gone away.
• Family, coworkers, or teachers have noticed changes in memory, temper, or personality.
• The injured person cannot return to the same job or responsibilities at home, or needs supervision, rehabilitation, or long term nursing care.
• An adjuster has asked for a recorded statement, offered a quick settlement, or called the injury just a concussion.
• A municipality, public hospital, or school district was involved, where much shorter deadlines apply.

Statewide Reach With a Syracuse Base

Porter Law Group is headquartered in Syracuse and maintains six offices across New York State. That matters in a brain injury case because the medicine and the proof are local. The trauma center, the rehabilitation hospital, the neuropsychologist who can perform defensible testing, and the court where the case is tried are all tied to a particular county.

How We Handle Brain Injury Cases

We build the medical record before we negotiate. That means collecting emergency and trauma records including the initial Glasgow Coma Scale scores, obtaining the imaging itself rather than the radiologist’s report alone, arranging neuropsychological evaluation, and gathering the employment and school records that show the change in performance. You work directly with the attorney handling your case. Read our client testimonials, review our case results, and meet the team on the Attorneys and Staff page.

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Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury

A traumatic brain injury is any force or trauma to the head that disrupts how the brain normally functions. It does not require a skull fracture, a bleed, or even a direct blow. A violent whipping motion of the head can injure the brain by itself, which is why people walk away from a rear-end collision and find themselves unable to concentrate at work three weeks later.

The Severity Spectrum

Clinicians grade brain injuries as mild, moderate, or severe using how long consciousness was lost, how long the person could not form new memories, and the Glasgow Coma Scale score recorded on arrival. A mild traumatic brain injury, commonly called a concussion, involves only a brief change in mental status. A severe traumatic brain injury can involve prolonged unconsciousness and neurologic changes that are sometimes permanent, and it is a catastrophic injury in the legal sense.

Mild describes how the injury presented in the first hours, not what it costs a person. Symptoms typically improve within days and generally resolve within about three months, but a meaningful number of people do not follow that curve, and those are the ones insurers fight hardest, because the scans are clean. Our pages on post concussion syndrome and what kinds of traumatic brain injuries can lead to legal action cover what happens when symptoms persist.

Primary and Secondary Brain Injury

The damage done at the moment of impact is the primary brain injury. What follows is the secondary brain injury, a cascade of cellular, chemical, and blood vessel changes unfolding over hours and days, as swelling raises pressure inside a rigid skull and more tissue dies. That is why a person can be lucid at the scene and critically ill by morning, and why a defense built on how someone looked at the scene does not hold up.

Closed, Open, and Penetrating Head Injuries

In a closed head injury, the skull stays intact and the brain is jarred against the inside of it, shearing the lining, nerves, and blood vessels. These are often classified by where the blood collects, including subdural, subarachnoid, and epidural bleeding, covered on our page on brain hemorrhage claims. In an open or penetrating injury the skull is broken, and a skull fracture, including a basilar fracture at the base of the skull, carries its own risks of bleeding, infection, and cranial nerve damage.

Bruising of the brain tissue itself is a brain contusion. When a moving head stops abruptly, the brain can strike the skull at the point of impact and rebound into the opposite side, producing the two bruises known as a coup contrecoup injury, which explains damage nowhere near where the head was struck.

Types of Brain Injury Claims We Handle

The diagnosis drives which specialists matter, what recovery looks like, and which defenses the carrier will run. We maintain detailed pages on the injuries we see most often:

• Traumatic brain injury claims in New York, across the mild to severe spectrum.
• Concussion claims, including the injuries insurers most often dismiss as minor.
• Post concussion syndrome, where symptoms persist for months or years.
• Closed head injuries, where the skull is intact but the brain is not.
• Basilar and other skull fractures, including the complications that follow.
• Brain hemorrhage and bleeding claims, including subdural, subarachnoid, and epidural bleeds.
• Brain contusion claims, where the brain tissue itself is bruised.
• Coup contrecoup brain injuries, with damage on both sides of the brain.
• Anoxic brain injury claims, where the brain is deprived of oxygen entirely.
• Hypoxic brain injury claims, where oxygen supply is reduced rather than cut off.

If your diagnosis is not on this list, that changes nothing about your rights. Diffuse axonal injury and injuries never given a precise label at the hospital produce serious claims.

How Brain Injuries Happen in New York

Brain injuries commonly arise from falls, motor vehicle crashes, workplace incidents, assaults, and medical events. The mechanism matters legally, because it determines who can be held responsible, which body of New York law applies, and how long you have to act. Assaults deserve a word of their own. Where an attack happened somewhere an owner controlled, such as a bar, a parking garage, or an apartment complex with a history of violence, the owner or its security contractor may share responsibility for failing to provide reasonable security.

Motor Vehicle Crashes

Collisions produce brain injuries through direct impact with a window, a steering wheel, or a headrest, and through pure acceleration and deceleration forces with no impact at all. Motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians absorb far more of the energy. Our car accident practice covers liability and no-fault issues in detail, and we handle truck accident and motorcycle accident claims where a severe brain injury is far more likely.

Falls and Property Hazards

A fall from standing height onto a hard surface is enough to cause a serious brain injury, and the risk climbs sharply with age and with blood thinner use. Upstate New York adds ice and snow to the hazard list for half the year. Unsalted walkways, unlit stairwells, broken handrails, and uneven flooring all support a claim where the owner knew or should have known about the condition. Our slip and fall practice and broader premises liability practice explain how notice is proven.

Construction and Workplace Accidents

Construction sites concentrate every mechanism at once. Falls from scaffolds, ladders, and roofs, objects dropped from above, collapses, and struck-by incidents all cause head trauma, and hard hats reduce injury without eliminating it. New York gives construction workers protections that exist in almost no other state, so a full injury claim against a general contractor or owner frequently sits alongside workers’ compensation. Our construction accident practice covers those claims.

Medical Negligence and Oxygen Deprivation

Not every brain injury involves a blow to the head. When the brain is starved of oxygen, cells begin dying within minutes. Anesthesia errors, an unsecured airway, delayed response to cardiac arrest, and missed strokes or bleeds all produce anoxic and hypoxic brain injuries. Oxygen deprivation during labor and delivery is a leading cause of permanent brain damage in newborns, addressed by our birth injury practice. Untreated head trauma in long term care falls under our nursing home abuse practice, and hospital-based claims run through our medical malpractice practice.

Why Brain Injury Symptoms Often Surface Late

One of the cruelest features of a brain injury is the delay. Symptoms may appear immediately, or days or weeks later. Adrenaline masks pain and confusion at the scene, secondary injury processes take hours to develop, and cognitive deficits stay hidden while a person rests at home, becoming obvious only on return to work, school, or driving.

There is also a self-reporting problem unique to this injury. The organ that would notice the deficit is the organ that is hurt, so people insist they are fine while family watch them lose their keys and lose their temper over nothing. Insurers exploit that delay, arguing that a symptom first documented six weeks after a crash must come from something else, which is why anyone with a head impact should be evaluated even when they feel fine.

Signs and Symptoms of a Mild Brain Injury

The Mayo Clinic groups traumatic brain injury symptoms into physical, sensory, and cognitive or behavioral categories. For a mild injury they include:

• Headache, nausea or vomiting, fatigue or drowsiness, problems with speech, and dizziness or loss of balance.
• Blurred vision, ringing in the ears, changes in taste or smell, and sensitivity to light or sound.
• Brief loss of consciousness, or no loss of consciousness but a state of being dazed, confused, or disoriented.
• Memory or concentration problems, mood swings, depression or anxiety, and sleeping poorly or more than usual.

Signs of a Moderate or Severe Brain Injury

Moderate and severe injuries can include any of the above plus symptoms that usually appear within the first hours to days:

• Loss of consciousness from several minutes to hours, or an inability to wake from sleep.
• A persistent headache, or one that keeps worsening, with repeated vomiting, seizures, or dilation of one or both pupils.
• Clear fluid draining from the nose or ears, weakness or numbness in the fingers and toes, and loss of coordination.
• Profound confusion, agitation or combativeness, slurred speech, and coma or other disorders of consciousness.

Any of these warrants emergency evaluation, as does any head injury in a person taking blood thinners, where a bleed can develop slowly and without dramatic warning signs.

Brain Injury Symptoms in Children

Infants and young children cannot report headaches, sensory problems, or confusion, so caregivers have to watch behavior instead. Signs include a change in eating or nursing habits, unusual irritability, persistent crying and an inability to be consoled, a change in attention or sleep habits, seizures, drowsiness, and loss of interest in favorite toys.

Childhood injuries also carry a problem adults do not have. Damage to a developing brain may not reveal its full effect until the child reaches an age where a skill was supposed to emerge and does not, so a child’s claim often means projecting forward with pediatric specialists rather than measuring where they are today.

How Long Recovery Takes

People with a moderate to severe injury may have long-lasting and possibly permanent problems requiring specialized physical, speech, neuropsychological, and occupational therapy. The greater the severity, the less likely a full return to pre-injury status, although many improve for years with the right care. Settling before the treating physicians can say where someone will end up almost always undervalues the claim.

How New York Law Handles Brain Injury Claims

There is no separate body of New York law for brain injuries. A claim runs on whichever theory fits how it happened, and the mechanism determines the rules, the defendants, and the deadline.

Negligence and Shared Fault

Most brain injury claims are negligence claims. The injured person must show that someone owed a duty of reasonable care, failed to meet it, and caused the injury. Causation gets more attention here than in most cases, because the defense will look for another explanation for the symptoms, including prior concussions, migraines, depression, and normal aging.

New York applies pure comparative fault under CPLR 1411 in most injury claims, so a share of responsibility assigned to the injured person reduces the recovery in proportion rather than eliminating it. Motor vehicle claims changed in 2026. In cases commenced on or after the law took effect in May 2026, an injured person whose share of fault is greater than the combined fault of everyone they are suing recovers nothing at all, so how fault is apportioned in a crash case can now decide whether there is a case. That matters here, because a person with a head injury often cannot explain their own conduct before the event, and the defense will fill that silence if no one else does.

The Serious Injury Threshold in Motor Vehicle Cases

New York is a no-fault state for motor vehicle injuries. Your own no-fault coverage pays medical bills and a portion of lost earnings regardless of fault, but it does not pay for pain and suffering. To recover those damages from the at-fault driver, an injured person must meet the serious injury threshold defined in Insurance Law 5102.

A significant brain injury is generally well positioned to meet that threshold. A mild one is where the fight happens, and the categories that matter are permanent consequential limitation of use of a body organ or member and significant limitation of use of a body function or system. New York narrowed the definition in 2026 by removing the category that allowed someone to qualify by being kept from substantially all of their usual activities for ninety of the first one hundred eighty days, so a claim now has to rest on objective, lasting limitation rather than on months of disruption. Meeting it is a documentation exercise, which is why neuropsychological testing and a consistent treatment record matter. No-fault also carries strict deadlines for filing the application and submitting bills.

Labor Law Protections for Injured Workers

New York gives construction and renovation workers protections that go well beyond ordinary negligence. Labor Law 240 imposes duties on owners and contractors regarding scaffolding, ladders, hoists, and other devices used for elevation-related work, reaching both falls from height and objects falling onto a worker below. Labor Law 241 requires that construction, excavation, and demolition areas provide reasonable and adequate protection, enforced through specific Industrial Code rules.

Workers’ compensation is generally the exclusive remedy against your own employer, but it does not bar a claim against a property owner, general contractor, equipment manufacturer, or another subcontractor. Those third-party claims are where pain and suffering damages are recovered.

Medical Malpractice Claims

Where a provider caused the brain injury, the case is a medical malpractice claim rather than ordinary negligence. The standard is a departure from accepted medical practice, expert proof is required, the filing deadline is shorter and calculated differently, and claims against public hospitals carry the notice requirements described below. Delayed diagnosis of a bleed, failure to monitor after a head injury, and airway and anesthesia errors are the patterns we see most often.

The Evidence That Proves an Invisible Injury

A broken femur shows up on a film a jury can look at. A brain injury frequently does not, and the defense strategy is built on that fact. Proving one means assembling several independent kinds of evidence that converge.

What Imaging Can and Cannot Show

The CT scan done in the emergency department is a screening tool. It looks for bleeding, swelling, and fractures requiring immediate neurosurgical attention, and it is good at that job. It is not designed to detect the microscopic shearing of nerve fibers that can cause persistent cognitive symptoms, so a normal CT is entirely consistent with a real and disabling brain injury. Conventional MRI picks up contusions and small bleeds a CT misses, but it too can read as normal after a mild injury.

Obtain the imaging files themselves, not only the radiologist’s report, because a neuroradiologist reviewing the original study sometimes finds what a rushed emergency read missed. Never let a normal scan talk you out of a claim.

Neuropsychological Testing

Neuropsychological evaluation is often the strongest objective evidence in a brain injury case. A neuropsychologist administers a standardized battery measuring attention, processing speed, working memory, verbal and visual learning, language, and executive function, then compares the results against normative data adjusted for age and education. The output is a profile of measured deficits rather than a description of how someone says they feel.

Modern batteries also include validity measures built to detect exaggeration, which matters because the defense theme in nearly every contested brain injury case is that the client is amplifying symptoms for money, and testing that passes those measures answers the argument with data. Where pre-injury testing exists, such as school evaluations or baseline concussion testing from a sports program, the comparison is more compelling still.

Treating Provider Documentation

Juries and adjusters give more weight to the physicians who actually treated someone than to experts retained for a lawsuit, so the treating record does much of the work. The most valuable come from a neurologist tracking the clinical course, a physiatrist managing rehabilitation, a speech-language pathologist documenting cognitive deficits with objective measures, an occupational therapist recording what the person can do independently, and a mental health provider treating the depression and irritability that follow.

Consistency is what makes that record persuasive. Gaps in treatment are the most common argument used to discount a brain injury, and it is an unfair one, because the executive function deficits caused by the injury are exactly what cause people to miss appointments. Our guide on obtaining medical records in New York explains how to collect the file.

Before and After Witnesses and Day in the Life Evidence

Test scores establish that deficits exist. Witnesses establish what they cost. The people who knew the injured person before describe concrete changes in a way no expert can. The organized project manager who now needs written reminders for tasks she used to hold in her head. The person who read a book a week and cannot follow a chapter.

Day in the life evidence carries this further. A careful video of an ordinary day, from the cueing needed to get through a morning routine to the fatigue that ends the afternoon, communicates a cognitive injury better than testimony. A dated symptom journal and employment files showing a demotion, reduced schedule, or termination are frequently the most concrete proof of loss in the file.

What to Do After a Head Injury in New York

The steps that matter most are the ones people skip because they feel fine.

Get Evaluated Right Away

Go to an emergency department or urgent care after any head impact, loss of consciousness, or memory gap, even if you can walk and talk. Tell the provider exactly what happened, including whether you remember the moments before and after, and report every symptom, including the ones that feel too small to mention. A headache noted on day one is worth far more than the same headache first described six weeks in.

Then follow the plan. See the primary care physician for follow-up, accept the referral to neurology, and ask for a neuropsychological evaluation if cognitive symptoms persist. Do not return to work, sports, or driving before a provider clears you, because a second head injury while still recovering can be far worse than either alone.

Preserve the Record

Evidence in these cases disappears quickly. Where you can, or where a family member can act for you, gather:

• Photographs and video of the scene, the vehicle, the hazard, or the equipment, before anything is repaired.
• The police report, incident report, or employer accident report, and the report number.
• Contact information for every witness, including anyone who can describe how the person was acting afterward.
• Written notice that surveillance video should be preserved, sent immediately, because most systems overwrite within days.
• The damaged helmet, hard hat, ladder, or equipment, kept and not discarded.
• A dated journal of symptoms and of the things that have become difficult, kept by a family member if the injured person cannot.
• Records establishing the baseline, including performance reviews, transcripts, pay records, and prior neurological testing.

Protect the Claim

Do not give a recorded statement to any adjuster before speaking with an attorney. A person with a brain injury is uniquely vulnerable there, because inconsistent answers caused by the injury itself are later replayed as evidence of dishonesty. Do not sign a blanket medical authorization, and do not accept an early settlement while the medical picture is still developing, because a release cannot be undone when a deficit turns out to be permanent.

Stay off social media, since defense counsel review public profiles routinely and one photograph of a good afternoon becomes an exhibit arguing nothing is wrong. Where the injured person cannot manage their own affairs, ask a lawyer early whether a guardianship is needed.

Damages in a New York Brain Injury Case

What a claim is worth depends on the facts, and no lawyer can quote a figure before reviewing the medical evidence. What can be described is which categories of loss New York allows and what proof each requires.

Economic Damages

Economic damages are the documented financial consequences. They include emergency and hospital care, neurosurgery, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, the full course of physical, occupational, speech, and cognitive therapy, medications, and assistive technology. They also include home modifications, accessible transportation, and attendant care, which in a severe case is frequently the largest single category and the one most often left out of an early offer.

Most of that loss lies in the future, and future loss must be proven with the same rigor as a past medical bill, which is why a certified life care planner builds the projection with the treating providers and an economist reduces it to present value. The claim also covers wages already lost and the reduction in earning capacity going forward. A person may return to work and still suffer an enormous vocational loss if they can no longer supervise others or work full days. Where other serious injuries occurred in the same event, those losses belong in the same claim.

Non-Economic Damages

Non-economic damages compensate the human consequences, and in a brain injury case they are the heart of the claim. They cover physical pain, chronic headaches, dizziness, fatigue, and the loss of the ability to think clearly, remember reliably, and control emotion, along with the loss of independence, hobbies, and relationships. They are proven through testimony, records, and the day in the life evidence described above rather than receipts, which is why the symptom journal and the before and after witnesses do far more work than they appear to.

Family and Household Impact

A brain injury is a family injury. A spouse becomes a caregiver, a scheduler, and a memory aid, often while working and raising children. New York recognizes a derivative claim by a spouse for loss of services and companionship, and family-provided care belongs in the analysis rather than being treated as free. Where an injury proves fatal, the claim proceeds through our wrongful death practice.

How Long You Have to File a Brain Injury Claim in New York

Deadlines in New York depend on who caused the injury, and getting this wrong ends a case regardless of how strong the evidence is. Brain injury claims are especially exposed, because the injured person is often the least able to track a deadline.

• Ordinary negligence claims. Three years from the date of injury under CPLR 214, covering most crash, fall, and premises cases. Assault is different. A claim against the person who struck you runs on a one year deadline under CPLR 215, even though a claim against a property owner for failing to provide reasonable security is still a three year negligence claim.
• Medical malpractice claims. Generally two years and six months under CPLR 214-a, running from the act or omission, or from the end of a continuous course of treatment for the same condition. A hospital-caused brain injury can be time-barred while a crash claim from the same week is still alive.
• Claims against a city, county, town, village, school district, public hospital, or public authority. A notice of claim generally must be served within 90 days of the incident under General Municipal Law 50-e, and suit generally must be started within one year and ninety days under General Municipal Law 50-i. This catches municipal buses, public hospitals, city sidewalks, county roads, and school incidents, and 90 days goes quickly when a family is still in an intensive care waiting room.
• Wrongful death. Where a brain injury proves fatal, the estate’s claim is generally subject to a two-year period from the date of death under EPTL 5-4.1, and an estate representative must be appointed before it can be brought.
• Injured children. CPLR 208 extends the deadline for someone who is a minor when the claim accrues, so a child’s own negligence claim generally remains available until three years after their eighteenth birthday. Different and shorter limits apply to malpractice claims brought for a child, and a parent’s separate claim for medical expenses is not extended the same way.
• Adults who lack capacity. CPLR 208 also provides an extension for a person under a legal disability when the claim accrues, which can apply where a brain injury leaves someone unable to manage their affairs or protect their own legal rights. That extension is limited and frequently contested, so it should never be a reason to wait.
• Practical deadlines. Surveillance video is overwritten in days, vehicles are scrapped, scaffolds come down, and witnesses move. The legal deadline is almost never the one that decides a brain injury case.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a New York brain injury lawyer cost?

Porter Law Group handles brain injury cases on a contingency fee basis. You pay nothing upfront and nothing unless we win your case, and the initial consultation is always free. Having a lawyer review what happened before you decide anything costs you nothing.

My CT scan was normal. Do I still have a case?

Very possibly. A CT scan in the emergency department looks for bleeding, swelling, and fractures needing immediate surgical attention. It is not built to detect the microscopic injury to nerve fibers that can cause persistent cognitive symptoms, so a normal CT is fully consistent with a real brain injury. What proves the injury instead is the pattern of documented symptoms over time, neuropsychological testing with validity measures, treating provider records, and witnesses who can describe how the person has changed.

What if my symptoms did not start until weeks after the accident?

Delayed onset is normal with brain injuries and does not defeat a claim. Adrenaline masks symptoms at the scene, secondary injury processes develop over hours and days, and cognitive deficits often stay hidden until a person returns to work, school, or driving. Insurers will still argue the gap means something else caused the symptoms, and the answer is documentation, so get evaluated as soon as you notice anything and be specific with the provider about when it started.

Is a concussion serious enough to bring a claim?

Yes, when it causes real and lasting effects. A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury, and mild describes how it presented in the first hours rather than predicting the outcome. Many resolve within about three months. Some do not, and persistent headaches, dizziness, memory problems, light sensitivity, and difficulty working are compensable injuries. In a motor vehicle case there is an added step, because New York’s no-fault system requires an injured person to meet the serious injury threshold in Insurance Law 5102 before recovering pain and suffering damages.

How long do I have to file a brain injury claim in New York?

For most negligence claims against private parties, three years from the date of injury under CPLR 214. Medical malpractice claims are generally two years and six months under CPLR 214-a, calculated from the act or omission or from the end of a continuous course of treatment. Wrongful death claims are generally two years from the date of death under EPTL 5-4.1.

Claims involving a city, county, town, village, school district, public hospital, or public authority are far more urgent. A notice of claim generally must be served within 90 days under General Municipal Law 50-e, and suit generally started within one year and ninety days under General Municipal Law 50-i. Have the facts reviewed early rather than assuming you have three years.

Can I bring a claim if the brain injury happened at work?

Often yes, in addition to workers’ compensation. Benefits are generally the exclusive remedy against your own employer, but they do not bar a claim against another responsible party, such as a property owner, a general contractor, another subcontractor, or the manufacturer of defective equipment. That matters because workers’ compensation does not pay for pain and suffering. On construction sites, Labor Law 240 and Labor Law 241 impose duties on owners and contractors that go well beyond ordinary negligence.

Who pays for lifetime care after a severe brain injury?

Future care is part of the claim, and in a severe case it is usually the largest part. Proving it takes a life care plan prepared with the treating providers, itemizing physician follow-up, therapies, medications, equipment, home modifications, transportation, and attendant care over a lifetime. Recovery may come from more than one source, including the at-fault party’s liability coverage, umbrella and excess policies, and your own underinsured motorist coverage. Health insurance and public benefits that paid for treatment will assert liens, and coordinating those is part of resolving the case.

What if my loved one cannot make decisions for themselves?

Family members can act, and there are established ways to do it. If a valid power of attorney or health care proxy exists, the named agent may be able to handle much of what is needed. If none exists and the person cannot manage their own affairs, a New York court can appoint a guardian with authority tailored to what they need help with. Where a settlement is reached for someone who lacks capacity, court approval is typically required, which safeguards the injured person.

Where We Serve Brain Injury Clients in New York

Porter Law Group is based in Syracuse and represents brain injury clients throughout Onondaga County, including Liverpool, Cicero, DeWitt, Camillus, Manlius, North Syracuse, Baldwinsville, Fayetteville, Skaneateles, Solvay, Salina, and Clay, along with the city neighborhoods of Eastwood, Westvale, Strathmore, Tipperary Hill, and University Hill. We also work with clients across Central New York in Auburn, Cortland, Oswego, Ithaca, Utica, and Rome.

We take brain injury cases statewide, including Saratoga Springs and the Capital Region, the Southern Tier, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island. See our office pages for Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and New York City, browse all of our New York offices, or read the latest updates on the Porter Law Group blog.

Contact a New York Brain Injury Lawyer

If a brain injury has changed your life or the life of someone you love, the sooner someone starts building the record, the better your position will be. Video can be preserved before it is overwritten, witnesses interviewed while they still remember how the person was acting, and the right specialists brought in while symptoms are documented rather than reconstructed later. Insurers begin working these cases the day they are reported.

Our Syracuse office is at 100 Madison Street, Suite 1500, Syracuse, NY 13202. If you cannot come to us, we will come to you at your home, a hospital room, or a rehabilitation facility. We also meet clients at our Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Saratoga Springs, and New York City offices.

Call 833-PORTER9 or email info@porterlawteam.com for a free, no-obligation consultation. We handle brain injury cases on a contingency fee basis, so you pay nothing unless we win.

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