Jacob Galperin

I wanted to thank the amazing Autumn and Susie for all of your professionalism, expertise, compassion, care, and results! They got me a beautiful, hard-fought check. From start to finish, these two were A+. If I were just reviewing Autumn and Susie, that would be an easy 5 stars. But unfortunately, I... had to deal with Jake Galperin. In addition to my October 4th, 2022 accident, where I was hit-and-run by a drunk driver, I had another accident on March 9, 2023 where I was at fault. I felt horrible about it, as I am a 5-Star rideshare driver, with an excellent driving record. It was a huge blow to my trauma-recovery and self-worth, and I needed support to just deal with it and move forward. Thankfully everyone made it out safely, but I was sore and bruised pretty badly. I'd never had an airbag deploy before and I was knocked from one side of the car to the other. I called Galperin Legal on March 10, the day after my accident, and Autumn was not available. Hearing that I needed serious supoort, Susie transferred me to Jake, reasonably assuming he would be helpful. Jake got on the phone and began yelling, screaming, cussing, and berating me. I froze and broke down crying. Completely unfazed, Jake continued to humilate and degrade me for getting into the accident, screaming that it would jeopardize my previous accident check (as well as his). I believe I was in in double-shock; both from my accident and then Jake Galperin's completely uncalled for verbal and psychological assault. As I had disclosed to Autumn, I am a Survivor of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, and Jake Galperin's behavior that day was no different than my abusive ex-partners. Men who get off on belittling women like this, have no place in polite society. His behavior was completely unprofessional, unacceptable, sexist, misogynist, and full of hate. I will never forget that experience for the rest of my life and it is my hope and prayer that by speaking up and out, I may prevent it from happening to someone else. I pity any woman who has to deal with Jake Galperin and you will NEVER intimidate or humiliate me again like you did on March 10th, 2023. For my own safety, I must add that Jake Galperin is not to ever contact or speak to me again, or I will immediately notify the police. If that's how unhinged he becomes from me having an accident--and his profession is personal injury--I can only imagine how he behaves when held to account, but I doubt it's a healthy, well-regulated response. The most interesting part of the story, is that my March accident didn't end up impacting my October accident check one bit; Autumn was crytsal clear with me on that. So Jake Galperin's psychological and verbal assault upon me was completely unnecessy—and this kind of behavior is always unacceptable, whether seemingly justified or not. I did learn from this experience, that women who have histories of Domestic Violence have to be very careful, because other abusive men pick up on that and the second they have the opportunity, will berate us into tears and get off doing so. They shouldn't have this kind of power over us or anybody; such a blatant abuse of power. With the recent passage of historic legislation, such as The Child and Adult Survivor Acts in NY, victims of sexual assault are getting their voices and dignity back, as rich and powerful abusive men are losing their business and public support. It's about time.The tide is turning and I can only hope it will be a matter of time, before it trickles down to all forms of abuse. Thank you again to Autumn and Susie and all the best, —Nichol Edelstein-Widga