About Korman Lynch Lustig & Sassower

Korman Lynch Lustig & Sassower is a New York City personal injury law firm. We represent people hurt in serious accidents of every kind, workers injured on the job, and the families of people killed by the carelessness of others. Our clients come to us after a collision on a city street, a fall from a height on a job site, an injury at work, a fall on a poorly maintained property, an injury from a defective product, harm from a medical provider's mistake, or the sudden loss of someone they love. What they share is a life that changed in an instant and a set of decisions that have to be made while they are still hurt, still worried, and still getting calls from an insurance company.

The firm is the result of the merger of two New York City personal injury firms, Korman Lynch and Lustig Sassower, now practicing together under one name. Bringing the two firms together means one team, one standard of preparation, and one voice for every client we represent.

Two Firms, One Name

Korman Lynch and Lustig Sassower each built a practice representing injured New Yorkers before joining together. Under the combined name, the same work continues as a single firm centered on personal injury, workplace injury, and trial practice. Clients who came to either firm before the merger are represented by the same combined team today.

If your matter was handled by Korman Lynch or by Lustig Sassower, it is in the same hands. The name on the door is new. The commitment to the people we represent is not.

How We Build Every Case

We build every file from the first day as if a jury will hear it. That means we investigate early, preserve the evidence before it disappears, and develop the medical record and the liability proof so the full weight of what happened to our client is on the table, not just the version the other side's carrier wants to work from.

Our posture is careful preparation, aggressive advocacy where the facts call for it, and trial readiness from the first conference. Settlement on the right number is welcome. Settlement on a number that shortchanges a client is not. Preparing a case as if it will be tried is what puts a client in a position to be paid what the loss is actually worth, whether the case resolves at a settlement conference, at a mediation, or in front of a jury.

The Areas of Injury Law We Handle

We handle the full range of personal injury and workplace injury work for people hurt across New York City. Our practice includes:

• Motor vehicle collisions: crashes on city streets, highways, and bridges, including rear-end and intersection collisions where the injuries are serious and fault is disputed.
• Truck and tractor trailer collisions: cases against commercial drivers and the companies behind them, where driving records, logs, and loading practices often decide who is responsible.
• Motorcycle collisions: cases for riders hurt by drivers who failed to see them or failed to yield.
• Pedestrian knockdowns: cases for people struck at intersections, in crosswalks, and along sidewalks, where the police report, nearby surveillance footage, and independent witnesses build the liability record.
• Bicycle and e-bike collisions: cases for cyclists struck by motor vehicles, delivery vehicles, and for-hire vehicles.
• Rideshare and for-hire vehicle collisions: cases involving the added layers of insurance coverage that come with app-based and for-hire vehicles.
• Subway, bus, and MTA related injuries: cases against public transit entities, where a short notice deadline applies.
• Workplace injuries and workers' compensation: cases for people hurt on the job, including the workers' compensation claim and, where someone other than the employer is at fault, the separate injury case that can run alongside it.
• Construction site injuries: falls from heights, scaffold collapses, falling object cases, and crane, hoist, trench, and excavation failures under New York's construction safety law, which places strict duties on owners and general contractors for the safety of the work site.
• Elevator and escalator injuries: cases in residential and commercial buildings where maintenance and inspection history is central.
• Slip, trip, and fall and premises liability: falls in stairwells, lobbies, supermarkets, restaurants, office buildings, and apartment buildings, along with cases arising from inadequate security and dangerous building conditions.
• Defective product cases: injuries caused by products that were dangerously designed, dangerously made, or sold without adequate warning.
• Medical malpractice: cases for people harmed by a preventable mistake in medical care.
• Claims against the City and other public entities: cases against the City of New York, the MTA, the New York City Housing Authority, and other public bodies, which carry their own early deadlines.
• Dog bite cases: injuries caused by an owner's animal.
• 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund claims: claims for people harmed by exposure at the World Trade Center site.
• Child Victims Act and sexual abuse claims: cases for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
• Wrongful death cases: claims brought on behalf of the families of people killed in any of these settings.

Where We Handle Cases

We represent clients in the New York State Supreme Court, civil term, in the five boroughs and the surrounding counties, which is where most New York personal injury cases are filed and tried. When diversity between the parties or a federal question pulls a case there, we handle matters in the federal courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. When a case goes up, we handle the appeal in the Appellate Division and, where the issue warrants it, the New York Court of Appeals.

We represent clients at every stage of a case, from the pre-suit investigation through the filing of the summons and complaint, through discovery and depositions, through motion practice, through settlement conference and mediation, through trial and verdict, and through any appeal that follows.

How We Work With You Through a Case

Our work starts before a lawsuit is filed. In the early days of a case we preserve the evidence that tends to vanish, including vehicles, defective products, scene conditions, and surveillance footage that a building may overwrite within days. We deal with the carriers so our clients are not answering an adjuster's questions alone while they are still in treatment.

Where the party at fault is the City of New York, the MTA, the New York City Housing Authority, or another public entity, we prepare and serve the notice of claim, which is the formal notice a person has to serve on a public entity before suing it, and we defend the client at the hearing that follows. For a client hurt at work, we handle the workers' compensation claim and look hard at whether a party other than the employer shares the blame, because that can open a separate case that the compensation claim alone would never reach. From there we handle the written discovery, the depositions, the defense of the independent medical examination, the motion practice, and the preparation of the case for trial. Through all of it, our aim is steady: build the case so the person we represent is in the strongest position the facts allow, and be ready to try it if the other side will not offer what the case is worth.

Talk to Korman Lynch Lustig & Sassower

If you or someone in your family was seriously hurt by someone else's carelessness at work, on the road, on someone's property, or anywhere in New York City, the sooner a case is built, the better the evidence holds. The other side's carrier has already opened a file. Reach out to Korman Lynch Lustig & Sassower and let us start building yours before they set the terms.