{"id":32185,"date":"2025-03-11T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/?p=32185"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:59:41","slug":"can-i-sue-someone-personally-on-long-island-following-a-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/can-i-sue-someone-personally-on-long-island-following-a-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I sue someone personally on Long Island following a car accident in which they either don\u2019t have insurance or their insurance company offers a low settlement or refuses to negotiate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the driver who hit you had no insurance, you might file a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/personal-injury\/\">personal injury lawsuit<\/a> against them. However, uninsured drivers often don\u2019t have enough personal funds to pay for damages. You may also file a lawsuit if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/geico-claims-process-after-car-accident-in-long-island\/\">settlement<\/a> negotiations with the at-fault driver\u2019s insurer fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the driver who hit you had no insurance, you might file a personal injury lawsuit against them. However, uninsured drivers often don\u2019t have enough personal funds to pay for damages. You may also file a lawsuit if settlement negotiations with the at-fault driver\u2019s insurer fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-32185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","tag-car-accidents"],"meta_box":{"video_link":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlgny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}