PILNY is not a law firm and does not represent anyone. We explain how injury claims work where you live, give you free tools to check your deadline and estimate a claim, and connect you with an independent attorney who handles cases in your area. Start with your borough or state below.

New York City, borough by borough

Most of our guides focus on the five boroughs. Each borough is its own county, and a personal injury lawsuit is usually filed in the Supreme Court of the county where the accident happened or where a party lives. The borough guides cover the roads, hospitals, courts and deadlines that matter locally:

• Brooklyn (Kings County) — car, truck, motorcycle and slip and fall guides for Brooklyn
• Queens (Queens County) — including crashes on the Long Island Expressway, Van Wyck and Grand Central Parkway
• Bronx (Bronx County) — including the Cross Bronx Expressway and Hunts Point truck routes
• Manhattan (New York County) — pedestrian, cyclist, rideshare and construction-zone injuries
• Staten Island (Richmond County) — including bridge and expressway crashes, where the road owner sets the deadline

What changes from place to place

Three things decide most injury claims, and all three depend on where the accident happened:

• The filing deadline. In New York most injury lawsuits must be filed within three years, but a claim against the City, NYCHA or NYC Transit needs a notice of claim within 90 days. Other states set their own limits, and some are as short as one or two years.
• Shared fault. New York reduces your recovery by your share of the blame, and since May 2026 it bars pain-and-suffering damages in some motor vehicle lawsuits where the injured person is more at fault than the defendants. Some states cut off recovery at 50% or 51% fault, and a few bar it entirely if you were even slightly at fault.
• Insurance rules. New York and Florida are no-fault states, so your own policy pays first for medical bills and lost wages after a car crash. Most other states go straight to the at-fault driver’s insurer.

See our New York filing deadline guide for the details, or use the state tools below.

Free injury tools by state

Injury law changes at every state line. These tools apply the local rules — filing deadlines, shared-fault limits and damage caps — to your own situation.

• California — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• Florida — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• Georgia — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• Illinois — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• Arizona — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• New Jersey — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• North Carolina — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• Ohio — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• Pennsylvania — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker
• Texas — settlement calculator and filing deadline checker