Syracuse Premises Liability Lawyers

If you were hurt by a dangerous condition on someone else’s property anywhere in New York, a New York premises liability lawyer can explain who was responsible for that property and what has to be proven to hold them accountable. Premises liability covers far more than a wet floor. It reaches assaults that happened because a building’s locks and lighting were ignored, drownings at unfenced pools, elevator failures, carbon monoxide poisoning, and porches and railings that gave way under normal use.

What these cases share is a company or person who controlled the property, knew or should have known about the hazard, and did nothing in time. Porter Law Group represents injured people across New York State, from Syracuse and Central New York to Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and New York City. We document the condition before it is repaired and demand the records that decide these cases. Consultations are free, and we work on a contingency fee basis, so there is no fee unless we win.

Why Choose Porter Law Group for a New York Premises Liability Claim

These claims are decided by records that belong to the other side. The maintenance log, the inspection sheet, the security incident file, and the tenant complaint that went unanswered all sit with the company being blamed. That is why the standard defense is not that the hazard never existed but that nobody knew about it in time to fix it.

When a Premises Liability Case Needs a Lawyer

Not every stumble on a neighbor’s walkway is a case. You should speak with an attorney when any of the following apply:

• The injury required surgery, a hospital stay, or time out of work, or you have been told the damage is permanent.
• You were assaulted or robbed where the locks, gates, cameras, lighting, or security staffing had been a known problem.
• A child was hurt at a pool, on a stairway, or anywhere the owner should have expected children to be.
• The hazard was repaired within days, so the condition no longer exists to be photographed.
• More than one company may be responsible, such as an owner, a tenant, a manager, or a snow removal contractor.
• The property belongs to a city, county, town, village, school district, housing authority, or transit agency, where the deadlines are far shorter than most people expect.
• An adjuster has asked for a recorded statement, offered a quick payment, or told you the condition was obvious and therefore your own fault.

Statewide Reach With a Syracuse Base

Porter Law Group is headquartered in Syracuse and maintains six offices across New York State. The law here is statewide while the work is local. Building department violation histories, fire marshal reports, health department pool inspections, and police calls for service are held by local agencies with their own procedures, and the lawsuit is filed where the property sits.

How We Handle Premises Liability Cases

We investigate before we negotiate. That means preservation demands for video and maintenance records before they are overwritten, experts retained while the scene can still be inspected, and the ownership and lease structure traced so no responsible party is missed. 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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How New York Premises Liability Law Works

Premises liability is ordinary negligence applied to real property. Anyone who owns, occupies, or controls land or a building in New York has a duty to keep it reasonably safe for the people who can be expected to come onto it. The dispute is almost never whether that duty exists. It is whether the hazard was known, how long it was there, and who was responsible for dealing with it.

The Duty to Keep Property Reasonably Safe

New York does not sort visitors into rigid categories that decide how much protection they receive. The question is whether the owner acted reasonably under the circumstances, weighing how likely an injury was, how serious it would be, and what avoiding it would have required. A paying customer, a social guest, a tenant, a delivery driver, and a contractor’s employee are all owed that same standard of reasonable care.

Why you were there still matters, but as a fact rather than a legal ceiling. Even a person on the property without permission is owed a measure of care where their presence was foreseeable, and children are treated with particular care, because owners are expected to know a child will not appreciate an obvious danger such as an unfenced pool or an open excavation.

Actual Notice and Constructive Notice

Most premises cases turn on notice, which means what the responsible party knew or should have known. New York recognizes two forms, plus a third route that skips the question entirely.

• Actual notice. Somebody knew. A tenant complained, an employee saw the broken step, a work order was opened, a violation was issued, or the same thing had happened to someone else at that spot before.
• Constructive notice. Nobody admits knowing, but the condition was visible and had been there long enough that a reasonable inspection would have caught it. A puddle that appeared ninety seconds earlier is treated differently from a handrail loose for a season.
• The owner created the condition. When the defendant’s own act made the hazard, such as buffing a floor and leaving it wet or shoveling snow into a pile that melted and refroze across a walkway, notice does not have to be proven separately.

Where a dangerous condition recurs, such as a roof that leaks onto the same landing every hard rain, the responsible party can be charged with notice of the recurring condition itself. Proving any of this depends on documents in the defendant’s hands, which is the strongest reason not to wait.

The Elements of a Premises Liability Claim

Every property injury case is built on four elements, and each is proven with different evidence:

1. Duty. The defendant owned, occupied, leased, managed, or otherwise controlled the area, or took on responsibility for it by contract.
2. Breach. A dangerous condition existed and reasonable care was not used to correct or warn about it.
3. Causation. That condition, and not something else, caused your injury. Defendants attack this element hard where a client has prior treatment to the same body part.
4. Damages. You suffered real harm, documented through medical records, wage records, and the testimony of people who see the difference in your daily life.

Comparative Fault, Open and Obvious Conditions, and Trivial Defects

New York applies pure comparative fault. If a jury decides you share part of the responsibility, your recovery is reduced by that share rather than eliminated, which is why property insurers invest so heavily in the argument that you were distracted or hurrying. Our explanation of New York’s comparative negligence law covers how the reduction works.

You will also hear that the hazard was open and obvious. In New York that argument does not end a case. An owner still has to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition, and the visibility of a hazard goes to how fault is divided rather than to whether a duty existed at all.

A third defense claims the defect was too trivial to be actionable. There is no measurement in New York below which a defect is automatically harmless. Courts weigh its width, depth, elevation, and appearance together with the time, place, and circumstances of the injury.

Property Hazards That Lead to Premises Liability Claims

Slip, trip, and fall injuries are the most common category of property claim in New York, and we cover those on our slip and fall accident page. The sections below deal with the rest of the field, the property failures that injure people in ways a fall claim does not describe.

Negligent Security and Assaults on Property

A landlord or business is not an insurer against crime, but one that knows its property has been the site of criminal activity has to take minimally reasonable precautions against foreseeable harm. When a building’s front door lock has been broken for weeks, or a garage’s lighting has been out and its cameras have recorded nothing for months, the resulting assault is not a random event.

Foreseeability is proven from history. Police calls for service at the address, prior incident reports, tenant complaint letters, security guard logs, and work orders for locks and lighting all build it. The defense will argue the criminal act broke the chain of responsibility, which is why the record of what the owner was told, and when, decides these cases. Apartment complexes, parking garages, hotels, bars, shopping centers, and student housing are the usual settings.

Swimming Pool Accidents and Drownings

Pools are heavily regulated, so pool cases usually come down to a requirement that was ignored. Residential pools in New York must be enclosed by a barrier of a specified height with self closing and self latching gates, and most require an approved pool alarm. Public, hotel, camp, and apartment complex pools carry additional obligations enforced by county health departments, including supervision, depth markings, safety equipment, and compliant drain covers.

The failures repeat themselves. A gate propped open or with a broken latch. A fence section removed during landscaping and never replaced. No lifeguard where one is required. Children are the most frequent victims, because a pool is precisely the attraction an owner must anticipate a child will not resist, and a non-fatal drowning that deprives the brain of oxygen can produce a lifetime of care needs that overlap with our brain injury practice.

Elevator and Escalator Injuries

These injuries follow from maintenance that was deferred or performed badly. An elevator that stops out of level with the floor causes a trip the passenger never sees coming. Doors that close because the safety edge failed, sudden drops, and entrapments that end in an unassisted attempt to climb out all produce serious injuries. Escalators cause a different pattern, including sudden stops, missing comb plate teeth, and side gaps that catch feet.

These claims usually involve at least two defendants, the building owner and the elevator maintenance company under contract. Callback logs, repair tickets, the maintenance contract, inspection certificates, and recorded controller fault codes can all be obtained, but only if demanded before the routine retention period runs out. Our page on elevator and escalator accidents covers this in more detail.

Carbon Monoxide, Fire, and Building Code Hazards

Carbon monoxide poisoning is a property failure that leaves no visible hazard at all. It comes from a cracked heat exchanger, a blocked flue, an unserviced boiler, an unvented space heater, exhaust drifting in from an attached garage, or a generator run too close to a building. New York requires carbon monoxide alarms in nearly all residences, and multiple dwellings, hotels, and commercial buildings carry their own detector and inspection obligations.

Because the symptoms imitate the flu, these exposures are often identified late, and prolonged exposure produces lasting neurological injury. Fire and life safety failures follow the same logic. Blocked or chained exits, disabled smoke alarms, sprinklers taken out of service, illegal basement conversions with no second means of egress, and overloaded wiring turn a small fire into a fatal one. Older housing brings lead paint and mold exposure, which our toxic exposure and toxic torts practice addresses.

Falling Merchandise, Fixtures, and Structures

Being struck by something that fell is a distinct category with its own proof. In warehouse retail formats, injuries come from overhead racking loaded past its rating, stock stacked above the safe shelf line, items pushed through from the far side of a shelf by an employee restocking, and heavy appliances displayed without anti-tip restraints. These chains maintain written stocking policies, and their own policy is often the strongest exhibit against them.

Buildings themselves also fail. Ceiling collapses where a leak went unrepaired, light fixtures never properly anchored, and falling facade material are recurring hazards. New York City requires periodic facade inspections for taller buildings, and those reports become public records showing how long a condition was known. Where the object fell from work overhead, the case may belong on the construction side, which our page on falling debris injuries covers.

Inadequate Lighting and Deferred Maintenance

Lighting is the quiet factor in a large share of property injuries and property assaults alike. A stairwell with fixtures burned out, an unlit parking lot, a dark rear entrance, and a walkway with a broken photocell all create risk that is usually documented in a work order file nobody looked at. Our page on poor lighting accidents explains how these claims are built.

Deferred maintenance produces the same pattern everywhere. Missing handrails, stairs altered with inconsistent riser heights, unsecured floor mats, and potholes left for another budget year all leave a paper trail. The question is rarely whether the condition was dangerous. It is how long the owner had been living with it.

Porch, Stair, Deck, and Railing Collapses

Structural collapses are among the most preventable premises cases, because the failure develops over years in plain view. Wooden porches and decks on older upstate housing stock rot where the ledger board meets the building, fasteners corrode, and posts settle. A railing that gives way under the weight of a person leaning on it was almost never sound the week before.

These claims are proven with building department permit and inspection files, code enforcement violation history, prior repair records, photographs of the failed connection points, and an engineer’s inspection of the remaining structure. Decks built without a permit are common, and the absence of a permit is itself evidence. Because these failures happen at height, the injuries are severe.

Snow, Ice, and the Storm in Progress Rule

New York property owners are not required to keep every surface clear at all times during winter. Under what is known as the storm in progress rule, an owner generally has no obligation to remove snow or ice while a storm is ongoing and gets a reasonable time after it ends. Insurers in Syracuse, Buffalo, and Rochester invoke that rule almost reflexively.

The rule has real limits. It does not cover ice left from an earlier storm that was never treated, or ice the property created itself through a broken downspout, a clogged gutter, or a grade that drains meltwater across a walkway to refreeze overnight. It does not protect an owner whose own clearing made things worse. Snow and ice falls generally are covered in depth on our slip and fall accident page.

Winning that dispute takes hard weather data. Certified climatological records for the nearest reporting station establish when precipitation started and stopped and what temperatures did overnight, so these cases come down to a timeline rather than an argument. Snow removal contracts and salting logs matter as much, because a contractor that agreed to maintain the lot can be a defendant alongside the owner. In New York City, responsibility for most sidewalks sits with the owner of the adjoining property rather than the city, subject to an exception for smaller owner occupied homes. Fall injuries from winter conditions are covered on our slip and fall page.

Who Can Be Held Responsible in a New York Property Injury Case

The person who holds the deed is often not the only party responsible. Liability follows control, and control is usually divided by contract. Identifying every party with a duty is what protects a claim when the most obvious defendant turns out to carry thin coverage.

Businesses and Commercial Property Owners

Stores, restaurants, supermarkets, hotels, gyms, and shopping centers invite the public in for their own benefit and are expected to inspect for hazards on a schedule rather than wait for a complaint. Most national chains have written sweep and incident reporting procedures, and the gap between the written procedure and what happened that day is where these cases are won. Where a business leases its space, the lease allocates responsibility for the entrance, the sidewalk, the lot, and snow removal. Our page on commercial property premises liability covers claims against businesses.

Landlords and Residential Property Owners

Landlords owe tenants and their guests a habitable and reasonably safe building, and the Multiple Dwelling Law and local housing codes add specific requirements on top of that duty, covering common area lighting, functioning door locks, heat, egress, and structural repair. A landlord who has moved out of possession can still be responsible where the lease reserves a right to enter and repair, or where the injury flowed from a significant structural defect violating a specific safety provision.

The evidence is usually written down somewhere. Complaint letters, texts to a superintendent, repair requests through a tenant portal, housing code violations, and testimony from other tenants who reported the same problem all establish notice. Our page on residential property premises liability covers landlord and tenant injury claims. A dog attack in a hallway or leased yard can also reach a landlord who knew the animal was dangerous, which our dog bite practice covers.

Government and Public Property

Injuries on public sidewalks, in parks and playgrounds, at public schools, in government buildings, in public housing, and in transit stations are all possible claims, but they run on a much faster clock. A notice of claim generally must be served on the public entity within 90 days of the incident, with a shortened period to sue afterward, and missing that step can end a claim regardless of how clear the negligence is.

Municipal cases carry a second trap. Many New York cities, towns, and villages have prior written notice laws, meaning the municipality cannot be held responsible for a sidewalk or roadway defect unless it received written notice of that defect beforehand. Narrow exceptions apply where the municipality created the condition itself. Our page on whether you can sue New York City for an injury on government property walks through the process.

Managers, Contractors, and Security Companies

Property management companies, condominium and cooperative boards, homeowners associations, janitorial contractors, elevator service companies, snow removal contractors, and security firms all take on duties by contract. A contractor whose work created or worsened a hazard, or who displaced the owner’s maintenance obligation entirely, can be liable directly to an injured person.

People hurt while working on someone else’s property have particular rights worth understanding. Workers’ compensation covers an employee against their own employer, but it does not bar a separate claim against the owner or another company whose negligence caused the injury. Where the injury arose from elevation related or construction work, Labor Law 240 and the related requirements of 241 impose obligations stronger than ordinary premises rules. Those claims belong on our construction accident page rather than here.

Injuries in New York Premises Liability Cases

Injury patterns follow the hazard. A fall from a collapsed porch, an assault in a stairwell, and a carbon monoxide exposure produce very different medicine, and the proof each requires is different too.

Traumatic brain injury. Head contact with a hard surface, or blows to the head during an assault, can cause anything from a concussion with lasting cognitive symptoms to permanent impairment. These injuries are frequently missed in the emergency room because imaging looks normal, and are proven instead through neuropsychological testing and the observations of family and coworkers. Our brain injury page covers how they are documented.

Spinal injuries. Falls from height, structural collapses, and heavy impacts herniate discs, fracture vertebrae, and in the worst cases damage the cord itself. Cases involving permanent neurological loss require life care planning to capture the ongoing cost of treatment, equipment, and attendant care.

Fractures and orthopedic injuries. Hip fractures in older adults are among the most consequential injuries in this practice, because a fracture that requires surgery frequently ends independent living. Wrist, ankle, shoulder, and pelvic fractures are common in falls. Our fracture injury page covers how these cases are evaluated.

Burns, smoke inhalation, and poisoning. Building fires, scalding water, and electrical faults require specialized burn care and often staged reconstruction. Carbon monoxide poisoning and exposure to lead or mold cause harm that is internal and cumulative rather than visible, so early testing carries unusual weight.

Soft tissue injuries, lacerations, and scarring. Ligament and tendon tears require months of therapy and are routinely dismissed by insurers as minor, which makes consistent documentation essential. Deep cuts from broken glass or sharp fixtures leave permanent scars, and significant visible scarring is compensable as disfigurement in its own right.

Psychological injury. People assaulted on a property, parents of a child hurt at a pool, and survivors of a fire carry consequences no imaging shows. Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and avoidance of the place where it happened are recognized injuries, and a documented course of treatment is far more persuasive than a description of how a client feels.

What to Do After an Injury on Someone Else’s Property

What happens in the first hours often decides the case, because the hazard that injured you may not exist by the end of the day. Our guide on what to do if you are injured on someone else’s property in New York goes further.

1. Photograph the condition before anything changes. Take wide shots showing the location, close shots showing the defect, something in frame for scale, and the lighting as it actually was.
2. Report it and ask for a written incident report. Tell the manager, superintendent, or owner and request a copy. If they refuse, write down the date, time, and the names of everyone you spoke with.
3. Get medical care the same day. Adrenaline masks injuries, and head, spine, and soft tissue damage often declares itself the next morning. Same day treatment creates the record tying the injury to the incident.
4. Identify witnesses and responding staff. Get names and phone numbers, including from the employees who came over, because employees change jobs and become hard to locate months later.
5. Note every camera you can see. Surveillance video is the most valuable evidence in a property case and the most perishable, since many systems overwrite in days or weeks.
6. Keep the physical evidence. Save the shoes and clothing you were wearing, unwashed, along with any broken object involved. Do not return a damaged item to the store.
7. Do not give a recorded statement or sign anything. Do not sign a medical authorization, and do not accept a quick payment before anyone knows what your treatment will require. Stay off social media about the incident as well.

Evidence That Strengthens a Premises Liability Claim

These cases are built out of ordinary business records, most of which the other side controls. Bring whatever you have to your consultation, and we will pursue the rest.

The scene and the condition

• Dated photographs and video of the hazard, the surrounding area, the lighting, and any warning sign that was or was not there.
• Surveillance footage from the property and neighboring businesses, requested in writing before it is overwritten.
• Weather records for the date and location where snow, ice, or rain is part of the story.

Records held by the property owner

• Incident and accident reports, including reports of earlier incidents at the same location.
• Inspection sheets, sweep logs, maintenance schedules, work orders, and repair invoices.
• Tenant and customer complaints, emails and texts to management, and building portal tickets.
• Leases, management agreements, snow removal and elevator maintenance contracts, and security post orders.
• Employee training materials and the company’s own written safety policies.

Public and agency records

• Building department permits, inspection files, and code enforcement violation history.
• Fire marshal reports, health department pool inspections, and elevator inspection certificates.
• Police reports and calls for service at the address, which matter enormously in negligent security cases.
• Deed, tax, and corporate records establishing who actually owns and controls the property.

Your injuries and their effect

• Emergency, hospital, surgical, therapy, and mental health records, plus every bill. See our guide on obtaining medical records in New York.
• Proof of lost wages, missed shifts, used leave, and any change in your ability to do your job.
• A dated journal of pain, sleep, mobility, and the activities you have had to give up.
• Names of family, friends, and coworkers who can describe the difference between before and after.

Damages Available in a New York Premises Liability Case

What a premises claim is worth depends entirely on the facts, and no lawyer can responsibly quote a figure before reviewing the medical evidence and the liability record. What can be described is which categories of loss New York allows.

Economic Damages

Economic damages are the documented financial consequences of the injury. They include emergency and hospital care, surgery, rehabilitation, medication, assistive equipment, home modifications, and future care that is medically expected but has not happened yet. They also cover lost wages and diminished earning capacity where an injury permanently limits the work a person can do. Where impairment is lasting, a life care plan and an economist’s analysis turn that future need into something provable at trial.

Non-Economic Damages

Non-economic damages compensate the human consequences. Physical pain, permanent scarring and disfigurement, loss of mobility and independence, post-traumatic stress after an assault or a fire, and the loss of activities the injury took away are all recoverable, and New York does not cap them. A spouse may have a derivative claim for loss of services and companionship. Because these damages are proven through testimony and treatment records rather than receipts, the journal and the witnesses described above do more work than they appear to.

Wrongful Death and Punitive Damages

When a property hazard kills someone, the family’s claim takes a different shape. A wrongful death action brought by the estate compensates survivors for their financial losses, and a separate survival claim covers what the person endured before death. Punitive damages are rare and reserved for conduct that goes beyond carelessness into conscious disregard.

How Long You Have to File a Premises Liability Claim

In New York, the statute of limitations for a personal injury action, including a premises liability claim, is three years from the date of the injury under CPLR 214. Miss that deadline and the claim is barred no matter how strong the evidence is. Several qualifications change the arithmetic, and most of them shorten the effective window rather than lengthen it.

• Claims against a city, county, town, village, school district, housing authority, or transit agency. A notice of claim generally must be served within 90 days of the incident, with a shortened period to sue afterward. This is the deadline that ends the most otherwise viable cases.
• Injured children. The limitations period is generally tolled during childhood, so a child’s own claim typically remains available until three years after their eighteenth birthday. A parent’s separate claim for the child’s medical expenses is not tolled the same way.
• Wrongful death. Where a property hazard causes death, the estate’s claim under EPTL 5-4.1 is generally subject to a two-year period running from the date of death.
• Practical deadlines. Video is overwritten in weeks, hazards are repaired in days, and witnesses move. The legal deadline is almost never the one that decides a premises case.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a New York premises liability lawyer cost?

Porter Law Group handles premises liability 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.

What is notice and why does it decide so many premises liability cases?

Notice is whether the responsible party knew about the dangerous condition, or whether it existed long enough and visibly enough that a reasonable inspection should have found it. A spill that happened moments before is treated very differently from a railing loose for months. Notice does not have to be proven separately when the defendant created the condition itself. Because it is established through the owner’s own inspection logs, work orders, and complaint records, how quickly those documents are demanded often decides the case.

How long do I have to file a premises liability claim in New York?

Generally three years from the date of injury under CPLR 214. If the property is owned by a city, county, town, village, school district, housing authority, or transit agency, a notice of claim generally has to be served within 90 days of the incident and the period to sue afterward is much shorter. Claims on behalf of injured children are usually tolled during childhood, and wrongful death claims run on a two-year period from the date of death.

I was assaulted on someone’s property. Is that a premises liability claim?

It can be. A property owner is not responsible for every crime that occurs on its land, but one that knew its property had been the site of criminal activity has to take minimally reasonable security precautions against foreseeable harm. Broken exterior door locks, unlit parking areas, cameras that were never functional, and unanswered tenant complaints about access all support this kind of claim, and the fact that a criminal committed the assault does not eliminate the owner’s share of responsibility.

The property owner says the hazard was open and obvious. Does that end my case?

No. In New York, the fact that a condition was open and obvious does not relieve a property owner of the duty to keep the premises reasonably safe. It goes to how fault is divided between the parties, not to whether the owner owed you a duty. Because New York applies pure comparative fault, even a finding that you were partly responsible reduces your recovery rather than eliminating it.

Can I sue if I was injured in a store, restaurant, or shopping center?

Yes. Businesses that invite the public onto their property owe a duty of reasonable care and are expected to inspect for hazards rather than wait for someone to complain. Most chains have written inspection and incident procedures, and the difference between the written procedure and what happened that day is often what proves the claim. Where the business leases its space, the landlord, the property manager, or a maintenance contractor may share responsibility.

I slipped on ice during a snowstorm. Do I still have a case?

Possibly. Under the storm in progress rule, an owner generally is not required to clear snow or ice while a storm is ongoing and gets a reasonable time after it ends. But that rule does not cover ice left from an earlier storm, ice created by the property itself through a broken downspout or poor drainage, or a situation where the owner’s own clearing made conditions worse. Certified weather records usually settle the timing question. Snow and ice falls are covered in depth on our slip and fall accident page.

What if I was injured on city, county, or state property?

You can still bring a claim, but you have to move immediately. A notice of claim generally must be served on the public entity within 90 days of the incident, and the deadline to file suit afterward is much shorter than the ordinary three years. Many municipalities also have prior written notice laws, meaning the city cannot be held liable for a sidewalk defect unless it had written notice of that defect beforehand.

Where We Serve Premises Liability Clients in New York

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

We maintain offices across New York State including Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Saratoga Springs, and New York City, and we take property injury cases statewide. See our local pages for Syracuse, Rochester, and Albany, browse all of our New York offices, or read the latest updates on the Porter Law Group blog.

Contact a New York Premises Liability Lawyer

If a dangerous property condition injured you or someone in your family anywhere in New York, the sooner someone starts building the record, the better your position will be. Video can be preserved, maintenance files requested, code enforcement histories pulled, and witnesses interviewed while they still remember. Property insurers begin working the case the day it is reported, and there is no reason to start later than they do.

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 or a hospital room. 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 premises liability cases on a contingency fee basis, so you pay nothing unless we win.

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