Personal Injury in the Workplace and When to Sue
Most people think that if they’ve been injured on the job, they can only collect from workers compensation. While that is true in some cases, there are exceptions to the rule that enable injured...
View ArticleIs Workers Compensation My Only Option if I Suffer Serious Injuries on a...
When you suffer on-the-job injuries at a construction site, or any other place of employment, the Workers Compensation program can provide important benefits to help you obtain immediate medical...
View ArticleFive Common Workplace Injuries
According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately three million nonfatal workplace injuries in 2011 — representing 3.5 percent of all workers. Some industries, such as mining or...
View ArticleReasons to Make a Workers Compensation Claim
Workers compensation claims aren’t always about firefighters injured on the job or a construction worker maimed by a collapsing trench. The accidents and injuries that can fuel a workers compensation...
View ArticlePersonal Injury in the Workplace and When to Sue
Most people think that if they’ve been injured on-the-job, they can only collect from workers compensation. While true in some cases, there are exceptions to the rule that enable injured employees to...
View ArticleIs Workers Compensation My Only Option if I Suffer Serious Injuries on a...
When you suffer on-the-job injuries at a construction site, or any other place of employment, the Workers Compensation program can provide important benefits to help you obtain immediate medical...
View ArticleFive Common Workplace Injuries
According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately three million nonfatal workplace injuries in 2011 — representing 3.5 percent of all workers. Some industries, such as mining or...
View ArticleReasons to Make a Workers Compensation Claim
Workers compensation claims aren’t always about firefighters injured on-the-job or a construction worker maimed by a collapsing trench. The accidents and injuries that can fuel a workers compensation...
View ArticleConstruction Accidents: More than Workers Comp
Trapped over three hours in mud the consistency of quicksand, a New York construction worker had begun to lose feeling in his legs after falling 15 feet into a trench. The mud, intensified by falling...
View ArticleDanger on the Job: Firefighters at Risk
Not many careers require entering burning buildings on a daily basis. As a firefighter in New York, saving lives and property is just part of the job — even when hazardous to your health. In recent...
View ArticleConstruction Negligence Injures Innocent Pedestrians
Times Square was recently the scene of a construction accident when severe rains and winds of 43 mph caused a massive plywood retaining wall to fall down and injure three pedestrians. It took more than...
View ArticlePersonal Injury in the Workplace and When to Sue
Most people think that if they’ve been injured on-the-job, they can only collect from workers compensation. While true in some cases, there are exceptions to the rule that enable injured employees to...
View ArticleIs Workers Compensation My Only Option if I Suffer Serious Injuries on a...
When you suffer on-the-job injuries at a construction site, or any other place of employment, the Workers Compensation program can provide important benefits to help you obtain immediate medical...
View ArticleFive Common Workplace Injuries
According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately three million nonfatal workplace injuries in 2011 — representing 3.5 percent of all workers. Some industries, such as mining or...
View ArticleReasons to Make a Workers Compensation Claim
Workers compensation claims aren’t always about firefighters injured on-the-job or a construction worker maimed by a collapsing trench. The accidents and injuries that can fuel a workers compensation...
View ArticleBronx Frozen Ice King Dies in Workplace Accident
The owner of Delicioso Coco Helado, a beloved Bronx institution since the 1960s, was killed early in the morning on September 19 when he was crushed underneath a security gate. Surveillance footage...
View ArticleFirefighter Files Lawsuit After Suffering Injury in Gas Explosion
A New York firefighter is filing a lawsuit against the city, Con Edison and a landlord of a building in East Harlem after being injured while responding to a major explosion caused by a gas leak this...
View ArticleUpper East Side Crane Accident Leads to Wrongful Death Trial
A May 2008 accident featuring the collapse of a 200-foot-tall crane on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has had a lasting legal impact. Now, a wrongful death trial that had previously been postponed is once...
View ArticleWorker Dies in Construction Accident in Manhattan
An accident in the Garment District in Manhattan led to the death of a construction worker, according to the Fire Department of New York. The FDNY was present on the scene responding to an accident...
View ArticleCourt Says an Extension Cord is not Proper Hoisting Equipment
An appeals court told the City of New York that it has to give laborers doing brick work at a public school suitable materials, such as a mechanical hoist, to raise and lower buckets of cement from one...
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