INJURY LAW BLOG

Truck Accident Lawyer Providing Representation Following Fatal Crashes

When a truck accident takes the life of someone close to you, it can be an emotional, draining and frustrating experience. Nothing can make up for the loss you have suffered. At the same time, you may want to seek justice against the negligent parties who caused the fatal accident.

Misread X-Rays

Failure to diagnose a serious illness or misdiagnosis can be the result of negligence by one or more responsible parties. When a patient reports suspicious symptoms to a doctor and the doctor orders tests, it is not enough to simply administer the test and process the results in a perfunctory manner.

Injuries That Occur Because Of Holes In Construction Site Flooring

The facts in every New York City construction site accident differ — but one thing is sure for people who have suffered serious or catastrophic injuries on the job: The injured construction worker and/or his or her family will need compensation to cope with injuries and losses such as the following:

Skilled New York City Taxi Accident Attorneys

New York's 13,000 taxicabs transport 240 million passengers annually. The large number of taxicabs in our city has lead to another large but unfortunate statistic; thousands of cab-related injuries each year.

Burn Injuries Occurring In New York City Restaurants

It happens more frequently than New York restaurants care to admit: A server spills a hot coffee on a patron, hot soup burns a patron's mouth, the grease in a to-go bag melts onto a patron's lap. If you have suffered a burn injury at a restaurant, can you sue the restaurant? In many cases, the answer is yes.

Attorneys Holding New York Restaurants Responsible For Injuries

Owners of restaurants and other retail establishments owe their customers a duty of care with regard to their safety. Hazardous areas, elements and conditions of a restaurant or retail store should be corrected by management before an accident happens. This may mean installing lights in dark hallways, repairing cracked and broken sidewalks in front of the restaurant or store, and in general, watching out for customers' well-being. It also means handling food safely to prevent contamination.

An Experienced New York City Prostate Cancer Attorney

As you may have recently learned under tragic circumstances, prostate cancer can spread extremely quickly.

While many advances have been made in screening for and treating prostate cancer, men struck by this disease still depend on their physicians to order the right tests, interpret them and act on results in a diligent and timely manner.

Injured by Falling Objects

Were you injured when you were struck by falling objects at a construction site? Did falling materials from a crane or bucket truck hit you on the head or shoulders and send you to the hospital? Perhaps the construction site manager failed to erect scaffolds or netting above where you were working then falling objects struck and injured you. This piece of information may be the key to ample compensation for your injuries — yet you are unlikely to know details of safety rules such as this recommended procedure for protecting workers underneath movement of objects that could fall.

Experienced Truck Accident Lawyers

When a truck hits a car, a pedestrian or a motorcyclist the truck almost always inflicts serious injury. Trucking companies are prepared for this eventuality; they (and their insurers) employ large teams of experienced defense attorneys. Determining ownership of the truck and the trailer can be mysteriously complex, casting confusion over who really owns the truck and who really owns the trucking company.

Experienced Demolition Injury Attorney

Demolition activities are inherently dangerous to workers and those passing by alike. Construction crew managers and equipment manufacturers are sometimes held responsible when demolition workers are injured.

A common demolition scenario is when a building is being demolished in order to create a new one in its place. That can be because the building is old, no longer safe, or doesn't suit the current needs of the owner as-is.

By law, construction managers must clear a safe distance around the demolition zone. This is for a few reasons:

• To ensure smoke or other harmful air contaminants don't pose problems for those nearby
• To prevent debris from hitting anyone passing by
• To prevent hearing loss from excessive sound pressure from the blast

A clear case of a demolition accident lawsuit would be where these precautions weren't properly taken, and as a result a passerby, or especially a construction worker, is injured or killed.

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NY Statute Rule 23 (Industrial Code)

Rule 23 lays out a series of different legal requirements for construction.

According to §23-3.2, construction companies must place adequate signage and other methods of notifying the general public that construction and demolition work is going on.

This includes drawing proper attention to wells, trenches, and other types of hazards that may not always be attended.

The manager must also inspect the walls of all adjacent structures to ensure they are strong enough not to be damaged by the demolition. If they aren't, the demolition could cause collapse to those structures as well, and that would definitely injure people.

Under Statute 23, if the construction manager has any reason to believe those adjacent structures are not strong enough, or any reason to believe other aspects of the perimeter might be unsafe, demolition cannot proceed until structures have been fortified and hazards have been alleviated.

As mentioned earlier, Statute 23 also contains provisions for taking adequate measures to contain dust and air pollutants.

How Those Apply To Demolition Accidents

Building a demolition accident case revolves heavily around demonstrating that the construction manager or the property owner did not take the right precautions throughout, and that any injuries sustained were a direct result of that negligence.

That includes both the preparation aspects pre-demolition as well as how the demolition was handled the day of.

While it's a dangerous line of work no matter what, most demolition accidents are the result of corners being cut, someone not paying attention, or collateral damage that likely should have been foreseen.

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