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The New York lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy have been paying attention to the ongoing dialogue on New York's Scaffold Law. New York's Scaffold Law has been instrumental in assuring that construction workers are provided a safe place to work for more than a...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined DISH Network because it blacklisted an employee who reported fraudulent billing. Even though the employee was trying to save the company money, he was blacklisted after reporting that a vendor was...
A New York City television station's investigative team found that there were more alcohol-related crashes in Long Island's Suffolk County than in any other county in New York State. Channel 4's I-Team examined records of car accidents from the New York State...
In the early 1990's, now legendary deceased New York City cop Jack Maple and police commissioner Bill Bratton began to develop the well-chronicled Compstat program. Compstat was a crime tracking program that was introduced during Bratton's first stint as New York...
The lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy hope the massive upswing in construction projects is coupled with a commitment to worker safety. Historically, the two have not gone hand in hand. The increase in construction around New York is generally viewed as a sign of...
Just days after a Metro North worker was killed in Manhattan, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a report to Congress about the safety of that railroad, the second-largest commuter line in the United States. Although the timing was coincidental, the...
The recent gas explosion that brought down two buildings in East Harlem highlights problems with the safety of the pipes that transport natural gas - a growing source of fuel throughout the United States. Even as the use of natural gas becomes even more widespread...
The proportion of women in the US workforce is as high as it has ever been and is now equals the number of men. Not only are more women working, but they also have an increased choice of jobs, including those traditionally done by men, such as construction and law...
James Romansoff, 58, of Yonkers was killed while working on the elevated Metro-North tracks on Park Avenue near 106th Street in Manhattan. The lawyers from Block O'Toole & Murphy covered this tragedy yesterday with a promise to follow-up as the investigation...
Around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday March 1, 2014, a woman, later identified by police as Marisol Martinez, 21, was struck and killed by an MTA bus at the intersection of Meeker and Union Avenues in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. We profiled this tragedy earlier and...
