If you’ve been injured working on a major project at a large commercial building, then you may understand that there are certain laws that can protect you and entitle you to compensation. What you may not know, though, is that the statutes’ protections go farther than that. They can apply…
The headlines and the attached new stories are seemingly everywhere. “Workers Clinging To High Rise FiDi Scaffolding Rescued”… “3 Injured After High Winds Take Down Scaffolding Atop Brooklyn Building”… “Midtown scaffold breaks loose, falling bricks hurt 2 pedestrians.” Wherever you look, it seems that there is a scaffold accident somewhere…
If you’ve been injured at your construction job in New York, you may be entitled to substantial compensation. To make that happen, though, you’ll need to be sure of several things. You need to be sure that yours is the kind of accident that is covered by the New York…
When you’re injured at your construction job, you may know exactly why it happened. You may have seen that piece of plywood break in half before you fell in that hole, or you may have seen that your scaffold had no guardrail before an accident caused you to fall to…
Sometimes, achieving success in your construction injury case may be very complex. It may involve large amounts and multiple varieties of proof, from eyewitness statements to documentation to expert opinions. Other times, the path to success can be very straightforward and may not involve that much evidence at all. Whether…
Too many times, construction and repair workers are given shoddy equipment with which to do their jobs and, too many times, that inadequate and unsafe equipment results in a worker getting hurt or killed. In a perfect world, that would never happen. Since the real world isn’t perfect, it is…
Not all injuries for which you can obtain compensation under the New York laws that protect construction workers are stereotypical ones. Just because you weren’t hurt moving a steel beam while 11 floors off the ground or using heavy equipment to demolish a wall, that doesn’t mean that you cannot…
An ancient Chinese proverb teaches that the “journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In other words, any great destination requires that you first take on, and clear, the first hurdle and take each challenge one at a time to achieve your goal. Your New York construction…
Construction work is dangerous work and, sometimes, fatal accidents truly are no one’s fault and could not reasonably have been prevented. Too often, though, that’s not the case. Too many times, the accidents that prematurely end the lives of the men and women working construction in New York are accidents…
When you’re injured whole on the job working construction, and you sue for much-needed compensation, you may have to take on a motion for summary judgment made by the defense. That is a very important point in the lawsuit process and winning this battle is extremely important, because if the…