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If you were seriously injured on Long Island, you need a personal injury lawyer who knows Nassau and Suffolk County — the courts in Mineola and Riverhead, the insurers who defend local claims, and the roads where these crashes actually happen. At Zlotolow & Associates, P.C., our main office is in Melville, and we have represented injured Long Islanders for more than 25 years.
We handle car and auto accidents, slip-and-fall and premises claims, truck and 18-wheeler crashes, back and broken-bone injuries, construction accidents, and wrongful death throughout Nassau County and Suffolk County — and across all five NYC boroughs. We have recovered over $14.4 million for our clients. We work on contingency: no fee unless we win, and your consultation is free. Call (631) 564-0498.
Long Island is not New York City, and injury claims here behave differently. Nassau and Suffolk are car-dependent counties — the Long Island Expressway (I-495), Sunrise Highway, the Northern and Southern State Parkways, Jericho Turnpike, and Route 110 through Melville and Huntington carry heavy commuter and commercial traffic, and most serious injuries out here begin with a vehicle. Suburban premises claims (icy parking lots, supermarket and big-box floors, apartment complex stairwells, poorly maintained sidewalks) make up much of the rest.
Cases are filed in Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola or Suffolk County Supreme Court in Riverhead, and the two counties do not move at the same pace or value cases the same way. We appear in both regularly.
Insurance companies have lawyers working to minimize what they pay you. An experienced Long Island personal injury attorney levels the field — investigating the accident, documenting your damages, meeting strict filing deadlines, and negotiating (or trying) for the full compensation you are owed. Local knowledge matters: which Nassau and Suffolk carriers fight hardest, how each county’s judges handle contested-injury defenses, and what a case is genuinely worth here rather than in Manhattan.
We handle the full range of serious injury and wrongful death claims across Nassau and Suffolk County. Explore each area:
Car and auto accidents are the single largest source of serious injury claims on Long Island. Nassau and Suffolk are car-dependent in a way the boroughs are not — residents commute by car, and the crash pattern reflects it: high-speed highway collisions on the LIE and the parkways, intersection and left-turn crashes on Jericho Turnpike and Route 110, rear-end chains in stop-and-go Sunrise Highway traffic, and pedestrian strikes in downtown Huntington, Mineola, and Patchogue.
After a Long Island car accident, New York’s no-fault system pays your initial medical bills and lost wages through your own insurer — but only if you file within 30 days, and only up to your PIP limits. To recover pain and suffering from the at-fault driver, your injury must meet the serious-injury threshold of Insurance Law §5102(d).
We handle collisions involving passenger vehicles, commercial trucks and 18-wheelers, motorcycles, cyclists, and pedestrians throughout both counties. Learn more about our New York car accident practice and our truck and 18-wheeler accident team.
Premises claims are the second major category of Long Island injury cases. Suburban hazards differ from city ones: unshoveled and untreated ice in strip-mall and supermarket parking lots, wet or poorly maintained floors in big-box retail, unlit or defective stairwells in apartment complexes and condo developments, broken sidewalks, and unsafe conditions at restaurants, gyms, and hotels.
Liability turns on who controlled the property and whether they knew (or should have known) about the hazard in time to fix it. Snow and ice cases add a further wrinkle — the storm-in-progress rule can bar a claim brought while a storm was still ongoing, which makes the timing of your fall and the weather records around it genuinely decisive.
If your fall happened in Nassau County, our Nassau County slip and fall attorneys handle these claims directly. For Suffolk County and general premises questions, see our slip and fall practice.
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Our main office is at 58 South Service Road, Suite 130, Melville, NY 11747 ((631) 564-0498), directly off the Long Island Expressway — convenient to both counties.
Suffolk County: Melville, Huntington, Babylon, Brentwood, Commack, Deer Park, Hauppauge, Smithtown, Islip, Patchogue, Riverhead, Sayville, and the East End including East Hampton and Southampton.
Nassau County: Mineola, Hempstead, Garden City, Carle Place, Westbury, Levittown, Freeport, Valley Stream, Great Neck, and Long Beach.
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New York sets firm deadlines that can decide whether your claim survives:
Generally three years from the date of the accident under CPLR §214. If your claim is against Nassau County, Suffolk County, or a Long Island town or village, you must file a Notice of Claim within just 90 days under General Municipal Law §50-e.
Nassau County cases are filed in Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola. Suffolk County cases are filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court in Riverhead. The two counties differ in pace and case valuation, so local experience in the right courthouse matters.
New York is a no-fault state, so your own insurer covers basic medical bills and lost wages regardless of fault. You must file within 30 days. To sue the at-fault driver for pain and suffering, your injury must meet the serious-injury threshold of Insurance Law §5102(d).
Yes. We handle premises liability claims across Long Island, including ice and snow falls in parking lots, retail and supermarket floors, apartment stairwells, and defective sidewalks. Snow and ice claims are time-sensitive because weather records and the storm-in-progress rule often decide them.
You can hire any New York attorney, but Nassau and Suffolk claims are litigated in Mineola and Riverhead, valued differently than city cases, and defended by carriers who know the local courts. Our main office is in Melville, and we appear in both counties regularly.
Nothing upfront. We work on contingency — you pay no fee unless we recover compensation for you, and the initial consultation is free.
Value depends on the severity of your injuries, medical costs, lost income, long-term impact, and available insurance. We have recovered over $14.4 million for clients, but every case is unique and no outcome is guaranteed.
Free consultation. No fee unless we win. Call now and speak with our team.
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