During construction, the site itself poses significant risks to workers.
Unfortunately, severe and catastrophic injuries occur.
To help settle your case in front of a jury, you need an attorney with
trial experience, and one who quickly sends an investigator to the site
to take pictures of the unsafe area causing the accident. These pictures
can and do get admitted as evidence at the trial and are a powerful
image for the jury.
2. Who do I sue?
Worker's compensation benefits are not your only form of money recovery
if you are injured at your construction site. Most workers don't know
that you can sue any company other than your employer, such as the
building owner, general contractor, scaffolding company, manufacturer of
machinery, ladder manufacturer and subcontractor. This lawsuit does not
affect your ability to go back to work for the same employer, there are
strict Federal laws that guarantee that. Various kinds of accidents
include crane accident, defective machinery, heavy equipment, scaffolds,
and ladders.
3. What kind of compensation am I entitled to?
If we take your case, the lawsuit will be brought in either
the Supreme Court of New York or a Federal Court.
These Courts have no cap on the amount of money a jury may award.
How much you receive depends on how seriously you are injured,
and whether it is a permanent injury and how it will change your
life and enjoyment of life.
Your injury today may have a lifetime of consequences.
4. What is the value of my case?
Insurance companies and juries alike award money, known as
'damages', based upon the severity of your injury. Questions
that come into play are: what is the duration of injury,
and time out of work; is it lifelong; what is the pain and
suffering you feel as a result of this injury; is it
debilitating? Your settlement or jury verdict for damages
will depend upon prevailing on liability also known as
fault. Liability depends on establishing fault, unless as
in a construction accident cases, strict liability may
apply.
Damages must also reflect an amount for future pain
and suffering and future lost income for those who either
cannot go back to work or cannot do the same kind of work.
For example, just on the issue of future lost income alone,
if a 45 year old worker is injured and permanently disabled
and the jury is instructed by the Judge that the average
life span is 75 years old, and this worker made $100,000.00
per year, then the total lost future income, on a simplified
level (various additional formulas tweak this number) would
be: $3,000,000.00 (Three Million Dollars).
We are located in the Financial District of New York City,
two short blocks from Wall Street.
Directions
We accept cases throughout New York State,
including the NYC boroughs of Manhattan,
the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island
and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester.
We accept cases in many practice areas,
including without limitation
Airplane Accidents,
Amusement Park Accidents,
Birth Injury,
Brain Damage,
Building and Roadway Construction,
Car Accidents,
Coma,
Construction Accidents,
Cruise Ship Rape,
Erb's Palsy,
Failure to Diagnose,
Fatal Accidents,
Head Injury,
Hospital Liability,
Ketek Drug Recall,
Medical Malpractice,
Medicare Billing Fraud,
Medicare Double Billing,
Mesothelioma,
Motorcycle Accidents,
Negligent Security Cases,
Nursing Home Abuse,
Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch,
Paralysis,
Paraplegia,
Permax,
Product Liability,
Quadriplegia,
Railroad Accidents,
Rhabdomyolysis,
Sylicosis,
Slip and Fall,
Spinal Cord Injury,
Swimming Pool Accidents,
Taxi Accidents,
Train Accidents,
Trasylol Lawyers,
Truck Accidents,
Whistle Blower,
Workplace Accidents,
Wrongful Death,
Zicam,
Birth Injury Lawyers,
Medical Negligence,
Medical malpractice attorneys,
Birth Injury Lawyers,
Cerebral Palsy,
Erb's Palsy,
Littles Disease,
Static Encephalopathy,
Spastic,
Diplegia,
Hemiplegia,
Monoplegia,
Seizure,
Muscle Spasms,
Spastic Muscles,
Premature Birth,
Jaundice,
RH Incompatibility,
Stroke,
Toxicity,
Kidney Damage,
Physical Therapy,
Klumpke's Palsy,
Brachial Plexus Injury,
Brachial Plexus Nerves,
Shoulder Dystocia,
McRobert's Maneuver,
Stretch Injury,
Neuroma,
Rupture,
Avulsion,
Nerve Damage,
Excessive Force,
Forceps,
Vacuum,
Doctor Error,
Medical Mistake,
Brain Damage,
Facial Paralysis,
Surgery malpractice,
Hospital malpractice,
Hospital errors and mistakes,
Doctor malpractice,
Physician malpractice,
Plastic surgery malpractice.
