So, when somebody’s injured in an automobile accident, they can file a lawsuit regardless of whether they are the driver or operator of a car, a passenger in a car, or even a pedestrian struck by a car.
How an accident happens sometimes dictates whether one particular attorney or law firm can represent both a driver and a passenger.
We do have something called a conflict of interest. So, if the driver of a car may or may not have gone through a red light and there’s a question about the traffic lights, and nobody can really say who did what and neither the police nor anybody else witnessed the accident, it would not be proper to represent both the driver and the passenger.
If they both came to us, we would explain why we can only represent one party. The other party would need separate legal representation.
But certainly, anybody involved in an accident, whether a driver, passenger, or pedestrian, can bring an action or file a lawsuit stemming from a car accident here in New York.