Recently, a man in Louisiana went from living the American immigrant dream to the modern American immigrant nightmare. According to CBS News, he had arrived from Honduras and landed a construction job working on a big new hotel project in New Orleans. Then, after a building collapse injured D.R.P., ICE…
In any construction injury lawsuit, getting a truly successful outcome is about more than a judgment in your favor; it’s also about an award of damages — or a settlement amount — that accurately reflects the harm you suffered and adequately positions you and your family to deal with the…
Certainly, if you’re working at a New York construction site demolishing a wall, framing a window or installing electrical wire — and you were hurt in the process – then you potentially may be entitled to substantial compensation for your injuries, as these are activities clearly covered by the laws…
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…
Whether you’re a construction worker, an OSHA investigator, or a New York City construction accident attorney, you will, if you remain in the industry long enough, unfortunately begin to see certain patterns that emerge and certain factual issues that come up over and over. For example, one of the most…
The pieces of evidence that end up being the keys to success in your construction accident case can come from a lot of different places. This is one reason, among many, why it is so important to have an experienced New York City construction accident attorney on your side. You…
When you are working at a construction job, there are many ways that you can be injured. Not all construction accidents are collapsed walls, malfunctioning scaffolds/ladders or falling building materials. Even if your injury accident wasn’t one of those more common “I fell from a scaffold” or “a falling beam…
There are many aspects of construction work in New York City that are particularly dangerous. As recent incidents have shown, work that involves elevators and elevator shafts is one of those areas. Whether it is being struck by a moving elevator, being hurt when an elevator malfunctions and falls or…
To give yourself the best chance of the fairest and fullest possible recovery in your New York construction injury case, it pays to assert as many different claims as possible, and to fight for your right to argue all of them at your trial. Doing that effectively, of course, means…
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…