After you’ve been hurt at your construction job and you have made the important decision to seek compensation through the court system, you can expect that the entities you’ve sued won’t go down without fight. They will likely be well armed with skillful attorneys who know how to make persuasive arguments to defeat the claims of workers like you.
That doesn’t mean that you should fear or despair, and it definitely doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sue. All that previous warning should illustrate to you is just how important it is to make sure that you have an experienced and effective New York City construction injury attorney of your own to fight for you.
One of the more common techniques that an employer may use to try to defeat your case is to cast you as entirely at fault. If you have strong proof that you were hurt and that you were not provided with safety protection equipment, then the employer may resort to trying to pin the blame 100% on you. A bridge worker from western New York faced that hurdle in his case, and his success is an example of how to defeat that defense argument.