Two people are struck by the same turning car on the same New York street on the same afternoon. One was on a stand-up electric scooter. The other was on a moped. Their injuries are identical. One of them has their medical bills paid from week one and the other does not.That is not a quirk of their insurance policies. It is a consequence of how New York law classifies what they were riding, and it is the single most important thing to establish after a scooter accident in this city. Everything else, liability, value, timing, follows from it.First, What...
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