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$1,950,000 Settlement for Union Carpenter Who Suffered Rotator Cuff Tears and Spinal Injuries After Scaffold Fall Court and County Supreme Court, New York County Description of Case At the time of the accident, the Plaintiff was 59 years old and working as a union...
Construction Accident Law in New York Construction accidents are, unfortunately, a fairly common occurrence in New York. According to the NYC Department of Buildings website, on average about 34 construction accident reports are filed monthly – and these are just the...
Guide to Personal Injury Lawsuits It’s an unfair fact of life that you can suffer serious injuries and incur thousands of dollars in medical bills and have the fabric of your life turned completely upside down due to somebody else’s carelessness, negligence, or...
Partner David Scher shared his labor law expertise when he taught a continuing legal education (CLE) course on January 7, 2020, focusing on strategies for pleading a construction accident case. His lecture was part of a larger seminar presented by the New York State...
On Monday morning, November 11, 2019, at least four construction workers were injured, one seriously, in a scaffolding collapse accident at 50 Hudson Yards in New York City. Police and FDNY responded to a call received around 7:30 a.m. about an incident in which four...
Block O'Toole & Murphy Partner David L. Scher recently presented at a continuing legal education (CLE) lecture on how to properly frame and plead a Labor Law (construction accident) case. The lecture, titled "Construction Accidents from the Trenches: Strategies to...
Liability in Personal Injury Lawsuits Liability is the legal responsibility, or in lay terms “fault”, for an accident, an essential factor in personal injury cases. It determines who is accountable and enables victims to seek compensation. Once liability is...
Five construction workers were injured in a frightening construction accident on Tuesday afternoon at an Inwood work site. According to news reports, three workers were seriously injured and two suffered mild injuries when the crane on a boom truck collapsed....
On June 22, 2023, shortly after 9:00 a.m., a construction worker fell approximately 30 feet at a construction site on Broome Street in Lower Manhattan. The worker then became stuck in a confined space between two buildings and was thankfully rescued by FDNY members...
Last week, an unidentified construction worker employed was performing carpentry work on the twelfth floor of the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters at 270 Park Avenue. Witnesses recalled that as he was working, the man suddenly lost his balance and fell through an open...
