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Koenigsberg & Associates have a proven track record fighting for our clients. We're committed to securing your recovery and getting you back on your feet.
How our lawyers can help
The experienced attorneys at Koenigsberg & Associates will listen to your needs, organize the facts, evidence, and details of your case, and aggressively pursue legal action until you get the compensation that you deserve:
- Medical Treatment
- Lost Wages
- Pain & Suffering
Common causes of catastrophic injuries
The injuries are different — but the underlying events are often the same patterns we litigate every day.
High-speed motor vehicle crashes
Highway collisions, head-on crashes, and tractor-trailer impacts on the BQE, LIE, and I-95 routinely produce catastrophic outcomes.
Pedestrian & cyclist strikes
With nothing between you and the vehicle, pedestrian and bike crashes are over-represented in our catastrophic-injury caseload.
Construction site falls & struck-by
Falls from scaffolds and roofs and being struck by falling materials produce life-altering injuries protected by NY Labor Law.
Motorcycle crashes
Without no-fault and without a steel cage, riders suffer some of the most devastating injuries on New York roads.
Medical malpractice
Anesthesia errors, surgical mistakes, and failure to diagnose stroke or cardiac events can leave patients permanently disabled.
Defective product injuries
Industrial machinery failures, lithium battery fires, and vehicle component defects cause amputations and severe burns.
Premises liability incidents
Falls from heights, electrocutions, and assaults in inadequately-secured properties cause permanent injury.
Truck & bus collisions
Crushing impact from commercial vehicles routinely produces TBIs, paralysis, and amputations.
Industrial & workplace accidents
Crush injuries, electrocutions, and explosions on jobsites — supported by both Labor Law and product liability claims.
Common catastrophic injuries
These are the injuries that change every part of a client's life — and the cases we build with the most care.
Spinal cord injuries & paralysis
Quadriplegia, paraplegia, and incomplete cord injuries that require lifetime medical care, home modifications, and assistive technology.
Traumatic brain injuries
Severe TBIs that permanently change cognition, mood, behavior, and earning capacity — even when imaging looks "normal."
Severe burns
Third- and fourth-degree burns requiring grafts, reconstructive surgery, and lifelong scar management.
Amputations
Surgical and traumatic loss of fingers, hands, arms, feet, or legs requiring prosthetics, rehabilitation, and home accommodations.
Crush injuries
Compression injuries to the chest, pelvis, and limbs that often progress to compartment syndrome and amputation.
Multi-trauma & polytrauma
Multiple major organ-system injuries from high-energy impacts — the most medically and legally complex cases we handle.
Disfigurement
Permanent scarring, facial reconstruction, and visible disability that affect every part of daily life and identity.
Vision & hearing loss
Permanent blindness, deafness, and sensory loss from blast injuries, chemical exposures, and head trauma.
Wrongful death
When a catastrophic event takes a life, surviving family can recover full pecuniary loss, lost earnings, and the deceased's conscious pain and suffering.
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What is considered a catastrophic injury?
A catastrophic injury is one that produces permanent, life-altering consequences — including spinal cord injuries with paralysis, traumatic brain injuries, severe burns, amputations, and disabling orthopedic damage. These cases require lifetime medical care and often prevent the injured person from returning to work, which dramatically increases the value and complexity of the claim.
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How are damages calculated in a catastrophic injury case?
We work with life-care planners, economists, vocational experts, and treating physicians to build a full picture of lifetime medical expenses, lost earnings, home modifications, assistive technology, and pain and suffering. Catastrophic cases routinely involve seven- and eight-figure damages — but only when the underlying expert work is done thoroughly.
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What is a life-care plan and why does my case need one?
A life-care plan is a comprehensive, doctor-supported projection of every medical and non-medical service you will need for the rest of your life, with current costs attached. It anchors the economic damages portion of a catastrophic case and gives the jury a concrete number to award. Without one, even severe injuries can be undervalued.
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Can I recover for future medical expenses I haven't paid yet?
Yes. New York law allows recovery for the reasonable cost of future medical care, future lost earnings, and future pain and suffering, as long as those damages are proven to a reasonable degree of certainty through expert testimony. This is one of the most important — and most contested — parts of a catastrophic case.
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How long does a catastrophic injury case take?
Catastrophic cases typically take longer than ordinary personal injury matters — often two to four years — because injuries must stabilize before damages can be accurately projected, and defendants and their insurers fight hard against large exposures. We do not settle these cases prematurely. The right number, not a fast number, is what protects an injured client for life.
Offices across NYC
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Brooklyn Midwood
1213 Avenue U
Brooklyn, NY 11229
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Brooklyn Flatbush
282 Flatbush Ave, Suite 2
Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Queens
80-02 Kew Gardens Road, Suite 5001
Kew Gardens, NY 11415
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The Bronx
225B East 149th Street
Bronx, NY 10451