How do I choose a personal injury lawyer in Nassau County?

Ask whether the firm has tried cases in Nassau courts recently. Ask whether a lawyer, not an intake service, will handle your file. Ask whether the reviews come from real local clients. We have more than 900 Google reviews and a Garden City office you can walk into.

Where is your Nassau County office?

We are at 600 Old Country Road, Suite 450 in Garden City, NY 11530, near the Mineola courthouse complex. It is our home base for all of Long Island. If you cannot travel, we will come to you.

I was hurt on a construction site in Nassau. Do I only get comp?

Often you have more than compensation alone. Comp covers medical bills and part of your wages, but it does not pay for pain or full lost earnings. If a third party caused your injury, such as a property owner or contractor on a job site, construction accident law may allow a separate lawsuit. We evaluate both claims together, for free.

What does it cost to hire Schwartzapfel Holbrook?

Nothing up front, ever. Injury cases run on a contingency fee, so we are paid only from what we recover for you. Workers' compensation fees are set and approved by the state board. If we do not win, you owe us nothing.

Nassau County Personal Injury Lawyers

Fighting for Injured Families in Nassau County

If you were hurt in Nassau County, you want attorneys that already work in these courts on a regular basis.

Schwartzapfel Holbrook tries personal injury and workers' compensation cases from our office at 600 Old Country Road in Garden City.

That office sits minutes from the Mineola courthouse complex, where are team tries cases.

Please read some of the 900 five-star Google reviews from the people who trusted us with their case.

Local Experience

Nassau County is where this firm does much of its work. We try cases in Supreme Court in Mineola. We handle compensation hearings for Nassau workers year after year. The opposing lawyers here know we prepare every case as if it will go to trial.

That record matters when a carrier decides what your claim is worth. Insurers pay differently when they expect to face a jury-ready file.

Our Nassau results come from decades of trial and negotiation experience.

On a monthly basis, thousands of Nassau and Suffolk residents are in need of an injury lawyer. Most have never hired an attorney, and don't know where to begin.

We are here to speak with you and answer any questions you have. Our office is always available to walk ins.

Our Office and Practice Areas

Centrally located in Garden City, handling Long Islander's injury cases

The Garden City Office

Our office at 600 Old Country Road, Suite 450 in Garden City is where Long Island clients meet us. It sits close to the Mineola courts and the hospitals where most Nassau injury records are kept. If you cannot travel because of your injuries, we come to you. Home visits and hospital visits are part of the job, not a favor.

That proximity is practical. When a hearing is set on short notice, your lawyer is already here. When records need to be pulled from NYU Langone Long Island or Nassau University Medical Center, we can get there quickly.

Construction and Trade Injuries in Nassau

Nassau builds constantly. Housing developments pop up in Hempstead while medical offices rise along Old Country Road, and roadwork never stops on the parkways. Falls from height carry protection under Labor Law § 240, the Scaffold Law, which can hold owners and contractors strictly liable. An ironworker's case can be different from an electrician's case. Knowing how each trade works is part of our process.

Many injured tradespeople have two claims at once. A compensation claim against the employer's insurance, and a lawsuit against the owner or general contractor under Long Island construction accident law. Missing the second claim can cost people much of what the case is worth.

Crashes on Nassau Roads

The parkways and the LIE produce some of the worst crashes we see. Commercial trucking adds another layer. Truck accidents bring federal rules, driver logs, and corporate insurers that move fast to limit blame. Evidence from a truck crash disappears in days, not months. Call before the carrier's investigators finish their file, not after.

If another driver hurt you on a county road, start with the car accident rules that apply in New York. That includes no-fault benefits and the serious injury threshold under Insurance Law § 5102(d). Most lawsuits against another driver must be filed within three years under CPLR § 214. If a county road condition caused the crash, General Municipal Law § 50-e gives you 90 days to file a Notice of Claim.

Recent Results

$26,500,000

For an operating engineer seriously injured in a car wreck

$24,750,000

For a union laborer who suffered a double leg amputation

$9,500,000

for an elevator apprentice struck by the cab

What Kind of Case Do You Have?

Most people don't know what kind of case they have. They know they got hurt in Nassau County and someone should have prevented it.

Sorting out the rest is our job, and here's how it usually goes.

Hurt on the job? New York's workers' compensation system pays medical bills and part of your lost wages regardless of fault.

But the benefits are limited, the deadlines are short, and the insurance carrier's doctors don't work for you. Our Long Island workers' compensation lawyers handle the hearings and the wage fight so the system pays what it owes.

But Workers' Comp may not be your only option. New York's Labor Law lets injured construction workers recover from owners and general contractors separately. This is usually how to recover the largest amount of money.

Our construction accident team runs both claims together so nothing is left on the table.

Hurt in a car, on foot, on a bike, or on someone else's property? Those are the cases we've tried in Nassau courtrooms for forty years, from our office in Garden City, minutes from where these cases are decided.

Tell us what happened; we'll explain the options you have.

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How We Work

Every matter the firm handles is prepared as if it will go to trial. That is how we have consistently delivered record results to clients for over 45 years.. Our award winning trial team has a track record that speaks for itself.

Many people we've helped didn't think they had much of a case when they called. They had an injury they were trying to work through, a job they needed, and no wish to fight anyone.

What they needed was someone in their corner who treats an injury as what it is: a threat to how you provide for your family. That's the case we take seriously, whatever size it looks like at the start.

From Garden City we cover Nassau, Suffolk, and all five boroughs. If you want to talk through what happened, we are always available, and the consultation is free.