Personal Injury Case Update
Members of the community and many of our clients have been inquiring about how the courts are dealing with personal injury cases caused by car accidents during the latest variant of Covid-19. Clients are concerned, of course about their health, but also about the progress of their pending personal injury cases. And people who have gotten into various types of accidents while the Omnicron variant was raging wonder if they should do anything different.
Before the Omnicron Variant of the Covid-19 virus became prevalent, the courts in Suffolk County and throughout the state were beginning to “open up” and conduct “in person” appearances for conferences and other matters. When these appearances become more commonplace and seemed to be conducted without seeming dangerous to the court personnel, litigants and lawyers, trials started to be held. First, the courts scheduled criminal trials in cases where defendants were incarcerated. Then serious felony cases began to be tried. In the fall, the courts started trying civil cases, as a backlog of personal injury accident trials had developed.
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