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Fall from ladder verdicts and settlements
- $8,625,000 Recovery for the Wrongful Death of a 38-year-old worker in a construction accident case as a result of a fall from a ladder.
- $5,000,000 recovery in a New York Construction Accident Lawsuit for a man who suffered a brain injury when he fell from a ladder at a construction site. The recovery included an agreement for workers' compensation payments to continue despite the settlement.
- $5,000,000 settlement for a 50-year-old man who suffered a cervical herniation requiring fusion surgery after falling from a ladder at a construction site.
- $3,975,000 settlement in a New York Construction Accident case on behalf of a construction worker injured under the New York State Labor Law when he fell off of a slippery dump truck ladder and was impaled on vertical rebar left uncapped at a construction site.
- $1,250,000 recovery for a carpenter who fell from an A-frame ladder and underwent a microdiscectomy of his lumbar spine.
- A verdict of $1,073,295 in the Brooklyn Supreme Court on behalf of a 38-year-old construction worker who fell face-first from a defective ladder and sustained a fractured jaw and seven lost teeth.
- $4,997,986 settlement on behalf of a Manhattan resident who sustained brain damage when a chain-link security fence fell off the roof of a five-story building and struck him on the head while he was walking down the street.
- $2,975,000 settlement in a New York County construction accident case for a worker killed when a prefabricated wall panel fell on him.
- $2,500,000 settlement on behalf of a sheet-metal worker who sustained a crushed pelvis when the unsecured arm of a sign that was being hoisted became dislodged and struck him.
- $1,400,000 recovery by our New York City Construction Accident Lawyers for a 40-year-old mother whose right great toe was partially amputated after she was hit by a brick discarded from an active construction site.
- $1,400,000 settlement on behalf of a New York construction worker injured when the glass roof of a greenhouse he was installing collapsed causing him to fall to the ground.
- $1,200,000 recovery for a construction worker who had a finger amputated after it was crushed by a falling hydraulic piston.
- $272 Million settlement in the Tribeca crane collapse.
- A substantial but confidential settlement for the family of Wayner Bleidner, the crane operator who was killed in the crane collapse on East 51st Street
- $10,000,000 settlement in a crane accident lawsuit in New York County for a woman who was seriously injured when a 35-ton construction crane fell on her legs at an excavation site.
- $10,000,000 settlement in a Queen wrongful death claim for the widow of a crane operator who was crushed to death by a beam he was lifting.
- $1,000,000 settlement for a laborer who suffered an electric shock causing peripheral neuropathy in both hands.
- $3,000,000 settlement following Summations in a New York County construction accident case in which a worker suffered serious injuries to his heel while riding on a muck tram in a subway tunnel under construction.
- $2,200,000 settlement on behalf of a laborer killed in a construction accident.
- $2,025,000 recovery in Kings County for a construction worker who lost parts of his fingers when his hand was caught in an unguarded opening of a flatbed truck.
