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  1. Georgia Injury Law Blog

    Worker Killed in Forsyth County, Georgia Construction Accident

    By Robert Katz

    There has been yet another construction worker death linked to a trench collapse accident in Georgia. These types of construction accidents often result in the wrongful death of the worker…

  2. Pennsylvania Law Monitor

    Construction Site Accidents

    By Stark & Stark

    In this video, Eric Ludwig, Shareholder in Stark & Stark's Accident & Personal Injury Group, discusses the many components of successfully prosecuting a construction site accident case. Mr. Ludwig states…

  3. MS Litigation Review & Commentary

    Updated Information on Friday’s Verdict in Durr v. MBS Construction

    By Philip Thomas

    More information is emerging about the $3 million jury verdict rendered in federal court in Jackson on Friday. On August 26, 2006 the Plaintiff Megan Durr was a Target employee…

  4. Pennsylvania Law Monitor

    What To Do If You’re Injured on a Construction Site

    By Stark & Stark

    In this video, Eric Ludwig, Shareholder in Stark & Stark's Accident & Personal Injury Group, discusses the most common causes of construction site accidents and what you should do if…

  5. New York Injury Cases Blog

    Another $1,000,000 Elbow Fracture Verdict Sustained on Appeal in New York

    By John Hochfelder

     Kerwin Park was a 36 year old day laborer doing construction work on a residential building in Manhattan on September 7, 2000 when a wooden plank he’d been standing on collapsed and sent…

  6. Insurance Law Hawaii

    Policy’s Failure to Define “Additional Insured” Leads to Expansive Definition

    By Tred R. Eyerly

       Although the excess insurer sought a narrow reading of "additional insured," the policy's failure to define the coverage allowed a broad reading of the term in Kerrigan v. RM Associates,…

  7. New York Injury Cases Blog

    Inside Story of Lawsuit over Catastrophic Injuries at Construction Site – Did Attorney’s Rejection of Settlement Offer Cost His Client $7,000,000?

    By John Hochfelder

    A 35 year old healthy construction worker was helping to build a new Lowe's Home Depot in Orangeburg (Ulster County), New York on November 14, 2002 when he fell off…

  8. New York Injury Cases Blog

    New Wrist Fracture Case Upholds $3,100,000 Pain and Suffering Damages Award

    By John Hochfelder

    It was hardly two weeks ago that we discussed wrist fracture cases in New York and how they can command settlements and verdicts between $450,000 and $900,000. Now comes the…

  9. New York Attorney Malpractice Blog

    Peeling Away the Layers of Legal Malpractice

    By Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

    The Fourth Department handed down four legal malpractice decisions this week, which is surely a record. Three were decisions without reasoning.  The fourth, KEITH LONG, , v CELLINO & BARNES,…

  10. Business and Commercial

    4 killed, 5 hospitalized in Las Vegas freeway truck crash

    By Ken Shigley

    Las Vegas, NV, 11/17/06.   A tractor trailer hauling paper products may have been going 60 mph when it slammed into a stop-and-go line of cars proceeding in two lanes through…