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Proving Liability in Slip-and-Fall or Trip-and-Fall Cases
When you get injured on someone else’s property as a result of a fall, proving liability is one of the important steps to ensure that you get fair compensation for your losses. In New York, premises liability cases, including slip-and-fall or trip-and-fall cases, are determined by the law of negligence (carelessness). If you have been …
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What Are the Dangers Posed by Ladders on New York City Construction Sites?
Construction work in New York and in other parts of the nation involve working from elevations. A large number of construction workers such as ironworkers, steelworkers, carpenters, masons, laborers or electricians carry out their work with the help of ladders, scaffolds, platforms etc. Despite being used often in construction sites, ladders continue to pose serious …
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Five Common Injuries Caused by Van or Truck Accidents
Large trucks or big rigs weigh more than 10,000 pounds and can be either single-unit vehicles or combination vehicles such as tractor-trailers. On average, drivers of large trucks travel many more miles than passenger vehicle drivers and a large portion of those miles are on interstates. In 2017, large trucks accounted for 4% of registered …
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Proving Negligence (Carelessness) in a New York Slip-and-Fall or Trip-and-Fall Accident
If you have been injured in a slip-and-fall or trip and fall accident, especially on a sidewalk or someone else’s property, you may be able to seek compensation for the injuries, damages and losses you have suffered. Such accidents have the potential to result in major injuries such as head trauma, spinal cord damage, broken …
Crane Accident Scatters Debris on Manhattan Street
A crane on top of a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row went out of control due to strong winds the evening of Oct. 29 sending debris from the under-construction building raining down on the street below. According to a report in The New York Times, the crane, which was on top of a …
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