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$5,900,000 for Bricklayer with Post-Concussion Syndrome, Herniated Discs, and Other Injuries after Ladder Fall COURT AND COUNTY Supreme Court, Bronx County AGE AND OCCUPATION OF PLAINTIFF Plaintiff was a 46 year old union bricklayer at the time of the accident....
Fatal Construction Accidents Despite the many New York worker safety laws and regulations that are in place to protect workers, such as the Scaffold Law, construction workers in New York continue to die in on-the-job accidents in alarmingly high numbers. In New York...
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...
Construction Site Injuries Construction workers often carry out tasks that come with a certain level of risk, such as lifting heavy objects, operating heavy machinery, and working at heights. Given the dangerous nature of their work, it’s imperative that those...
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...
Verdicts & Settlements Our Record of Results Speaks For Itself At the New York City law firm of Block O'Toole & Murphy, our attorneys are recognized for achieving some of the highest verdicts and settlements in accident cases. Year after year since 2012, Block...
A normal day at work was transformed into a life-or-death experience when two workers were left dangling from broken scaffolding at an office building in Lower Manhattan. The incident occurred at approximately 9:00 a.m. on Monday, October 5, 2020, at 250 Vesey St. As...
Two construction workers were rescued in Harlem on Friday, Dec. 13 after the hydraulic lift they were operating tipped over without warning, crashing into the building where they were working. They had been almost 50 feet up in the air when the fully extended lift...
Another tragedy at a New York City construction site.This time, an elevator mechanic was severely injured when he fell down an elevator shaft at a Brooklyn construction site. 42 Year-old Tracy Buyes showed up for his second day of work at a building in the Bushwick...
It was supposed to be an ordinary Wednesday at work.It turned out to be anything but that for 31 year-old Michael Buffamante, a Hawthorne, NY resident who was killed while working for Welkin Mechanical. Buffamante was working on a scaffold that was elevated above a 35...
