Many undocumented immigrants are afraid to go to an attorney and to bring a lawsuit because they are afraid of deportation. It is almost unheard of for a deportation to occur because the person brought a case. People get deported for committing crimes, not for getting injured.
In New York, the law on product liability is very complicated. To boil it down, if you are injured by a defectively designed or a defectively manufactured product, you might very well have a case. It would be a case against the store where you purchased the product, the distributor, and the manufacturer. In other…
It is unethical and illegal for an attorney to have somebody solicit a client in that way. You should always find an attorney on your own. I would be very hesitant to hire an attorney that you found because somebody gave you their card in a hospital room.
