Construction Site Accidents

An understanding and expertise in the complexities of the laws governing Construction Site Accidents involving the Labor Law are essential to properly represent clients in New York.

The firm has been in the forefront in this area by providing pre-litigation advice to contractors and carriers, rendering coverage opinions, representing owners, general contractors and subcontractors at the trial level through to the Court of Appeals. We have had articles dealing with these Labor Law issues in the New York Law Journal and other publications and have lectured extensively before bar associations, claims organizations and the claims departments of major insurers.

Our attorneys have successfully addressed at the motion, trial and appellate levels issues such as the validity of contracts and their indemnity clauses, the applicability of Labor Law 240 with respect to various fact patterns, the recalcitrant worker, when injury producing activity is maintenance or repair, additional insured provisions and the interpretation of Worker’s Compensation Reform Act, which is the grave injury statute. We have prevailed on behalf of our defendant client on the issue of sole proximate cause in a Labor Law 240 case.