Bronx Scaffold Accident Lawyer

If you have been injured while working on a scaffold, give our lawyers a call at 800-893-9645 to set up your confidential consultation.

Scaffold Accident?
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Scaffold Accident Laws Still Protects Workers

Since 1800s, New York State sought to provided protection for construction workers who have been hurt on ladders and scaffolding. The laws involving scaffold protection offers workers on New York construction sites the chance to sue contractors and property owners directly for liability when an accident and injury has taken place on the construction site. This could include compensation for not only the cost of medical treatment and loss of wages, but punitive damages and pain and suffering as well.

For a more than a hundred years the New York City skyline has been filled with world-class skyscrapers.  The efforts to make this the Empire State would not be possible without the hard work of our construction workers operating on scaffolding.  This dangerous work is highly regulated and provides scaffold workers with safety standards.  When these standards are breached, those responsible can be held accountable for their injuries.

New Legislation Proposed

Recently new legislation has been proposed to change the scaffold accident law so as to favor the property owners and contractors. Up to now, if a construction worker is injured while using a ladder or scaffolding, then the contractor, in order to eliminate fault, would have to prove that the job site was actually safe.

The interest in changing the current scaffold accident law is to try to lower liability insurance costs for contractors / property owners and is also an attempt to reduce compensation payments to injured scaffold and ladder workers paid out by the insurance companies. Basically it is an attempt to reduce workers opportunities for claiming compensation payments when in many cases the accident and resultant injury were not his or her fault.

Construction site workplaces can be dangerous places and for the time being scaffold and ladder workers are entitled to determine if they are eligible to file a claim for compensation if injured while in the course of their duties.

If you or a member of your family has been injured in a scaffold accident on a construction site, you should contact our experienced personal injury lawyer to assess your eligibility to file a compensation claim while the law is still in your favor. A statute of limitation applies in New York and you have three years from the date of your injury to make a claim.

Call our scaffolding accident lawyers now at 800-893-9645 to set up your confidential consultation.