Deadline Alert
If you were in Lower Manhattan on 9/11 or in the months that followed, the deadline to register your 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund claim has been extended to July 2021. Contact us immediately.
11 Park Place, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10007
combined experience in
personal injury litigation
for injured emergency workers
for line-of-duty injury and 9/11 law
If you were in Lower Manhattan on 9/11 or in the months that followed, the deadline to register your 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund claim has been extended to July 2021. Contact us immediately.
Why Barasch & McGarry
New York affords strong legal protections to emergency workers who are injured while in the line of duty. At Barasch & McGarry, we help injured firefighters, police officers, and EMS workers recover the maximum amount of compensation from those who violate the law or behave negligently.
$5,500,000each for the families of two firefighters who died in the line of duty at a Housing Authority building
$5,350,000for an officer who suffered hand and knee injuries during the rescue of a woman trapped in an elevator
$5,100,000settlement prior to trial for a firefighter who was struck by a cab resulting in the loss of his leg
$4,000,000for a firefighter who sustained facial burns in a fire caused by inadequate ventilation during floor-refinishing work
$3,400,000to the family of an FDNY officer who fell down an open elevator shaft
$3,160,000for a police officer who suffered severe injuries when a fence collapsed as he tried to climb it to reach a suspect
$3,000,000for a police officer who sustained severe back and knee injuries when he fell over a makeshift step
$2,300,000for an EMT who suffered a herniated disc in his lower back when he slipped on debris in a poorly lit stairway
$1,500,000for an EMT for disabling injuries suffered when her ambulance was struck by a minivan in an intersection
Barasch & McGarry has a proven record of winning high-value cases in support of firefighters, police officers, EMTs and other municipal workers injured in the line-of-duty throughout New York and the United States. Our practice areas include:
Your lawyers, case managers, and legal assistants have been there for me and my family from the very beginning. Mr. Barasch shook my hand more than 10 years ago, and I knew that he would, as we say in the job, do the right thing.
Retired FDNY Lieutenant
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