Construction Accidents

We regularly defend and prosecute all manner of suits arising from construction accidents and workplace mishaps. New York’s Labor Law Secs. 200, 202, 240 and 241 provide extremely effective means for individuals injured while certain work is being performed on buildings and other structures to secure a recovery. In many instances, these suits give rise to strict liability without regard to the culpable conduct of the injured person. Quite frequently, the effective presentation of an injured person’s bodily injuries, together with the monetary and social impact on the injured person, results in significant awards of damages.

These accidents and resultant liability give rise to a complicated interplay amount the parties involved. New York has limited the rights of owners, tenants and others to seek contribution and indemnity from the employers of injured persons. In cases where the owner or tenant is the party found liable, their recourse to parties more closely involved may be limited to instances where the injured person has sustained an injury defined by Workers Compensation Law Sec. 11 as a “Grave Injury.”

These restrictions sever only emphasize the contractual nature of the relation between the parties involved and to emphasize the strategic framing of contractual claims against those responsible as well as determining the existence of available insurance and the preservation and maintenance of claims against the parties’ insurers.

Our seasoned litigators have many years of experience in successfully handling these matters and have secured extremely favorable outcomes for our clients.