Personal Injury Lawyers in Nassau County
Our office sits on Union Turnpike in Fresh Meadows, a few minutes from the county line. This page is the practical detail for a Nassau case: which courthouse hears it, which department took the report, and which deadlines are shorter than you would expect.
Where a Nassau County injury case is filed
A personal injury case arising in Nassau County is generally brought in the Supreme Court, Nassau County, at:
- Nassau County Supreme Court — 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501
It sits in the 10th Judicial District of the New York State Unified Court System. Venue generally follows where the accident happened or where one of the parties lives, so a Queens resident hurt in Garden City may well have a Nassau case, and the reverse happens just as often. Our office is on Union Turnpike in Fresh Meadows, minutes from the county line.
What tends to be different about a Nassau case
Nassau is built around driving in a way the city is not. The Northern State and Southern State Parkways, the Long Island Expressway, the Meadowbrook and the Cross Island carry parkway speeds into surface roads like Hempstead Turnpike, Jericho Turnpike and Sunrise Highway, and the crashes that follow tend to happen at higher speed than their Queens equivalents. Wide arterial roads with long distances between crossings also put pedestrians in a harder position than a dense grid does.
Policing is arranged differently too, and it matters for getting the report. Most of the county is covered by the Nassau County Police Department and its numbered precincts, but several incorporated villages — Floral Park, Garden City and Mineola among them — run their own departments. Which one responded decides where the paperwork lives.
The deadlines that apply
Three years is the usual limit for a claim against a private driver, business or property owner, under CPLR § 214. Where the defendant is a public body — Nassau County itself, one of the towns, an incorporated village or a school district — a written Notice of Claim is generally due within 90 days under General Municipal Law § 50-e, with the lawsuit itself due within one year and 90 days. A wrongful death claim runs two years from the date of death under EPTL § 5-4.1.
Separately, the no-fault application to your own insurer is due within 30 days of a motor vehicle crash. No-fault does not pay for pain and suffering — that requires meeting the “serious injury” threshold in Insurance Law § 5102(d).
Nassau communities we write about
Each of these has its own page covering the roads, the responding department and the route to our office.
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