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Construction Accident
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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…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
Construction Site Accidents
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…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
Updated Information on Friday’s Verdict in Durr v. MBS Construction
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…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
What To Do If You’re Injured on a Construction Site
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…
New York Injury Cases Blog
Another $1,000,000 Elbow Fracture Verdict Sustained on Appeal in New York
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…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Policy’s Failure to Define “Additional Insured” Leads to Expansive Definition
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,…
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?
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…
New York Injury Cases Blog
New Wrist Fracture Case Upholds $3,100,000 Pain and Suffering Damages Award
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…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Peeling Away the Layers of Legal Malpractice
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,…
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…