NY Workplace Accident Lawyers
Workplace accidents can happen at any time. Many occur at construction sites or during building renovations. Others occur during the course of everyday business.
Q104.3's Maria Milito about Workplace Accidents with New York City personal injury lawyer Richard Gurfein.
In most states, including New York, if you are in an accident and sustain an injury on the job, you are entitled to receive Workers Compensation benefits. However, you are not entitled to bring a lawsuit for your real financial losses or for pain and suffering. There is one very important exception; when some third party, not related to your employer, caused your injury.
For example, a delivery truck operator is negligent at your loading dock and you are injured. Since you were on the job at the time, you’re entitled to workers’ compensation, but since the negligent party wasn’t a co-employee, you are also entitled to sue them for all of your damages.
Similarly, construction site accidents also, generally, allow you to collect workers’ compensation and bring a lawsuit. Since construction is always considered dangerous, there are many laws protecting the worker. If a safety law or rule is violated (and they frequently are when workers get hurt) you have a right to sue the owner and general contractor for your injuries and also receive workers’ compensation.
Workplace Accident Lawyers Settlements and Verdicts
$1,500,000 verdict in Federal Court in New York for a woman whose hand and wrist were crushed in a record press that made vinyl LP records. This 35 year old woman was using a hydraulic and steam press to make LP records. At the time of the accident the worker had placed her hand back into the machine to adjust the top label, but the electric beam was at the bottom of the opening affording her no protection at all.
$915,000 settlement against the New York City Board of Education in this Labor Law case for injuries sustained by an electrician when the ladder he was given gave way because it lacked the proper safety feet.
With degrees in engineering and biology hanging on walls right alongside their law diplomas, Gurfein Douglas are your Lawyers With An Edge when fighting.
With degrees in engineering and biology hanging on walls right alongside their law diplomas, Gurfein Douglas are your Lawyers With An Edge when fighting. Attorneys at Gurfein Douglas offer their clients extensive knowledge, passion and commitment to each case. Richard Gurfein holds a degree in engineering and Preston Douglas holds a degree in biochemistry. They both lecture locally and nationally to bar groups on topics ranging from medical malpractice to courtroom evidence and law office technology. During his tenure as president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA), Gurfein was instrumental in changing jury selection laws to end bias against the injured victim. Douglas has contributed multiple articles to various law publications and is currently the editor in chief of the NYSTLA’s New York Litigation Review.
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Protecting your rights does not have to be complicated or take up all of your time. When you have been injured, protecting your rights is as easy as hiring someone who knows the system and knows how to find path to maximum recovery.
Attorneys at Gurfein Douglas what issues insurance companies look for in evaluating cases, making settlement offers and how they prepare for trial. Most other personal injury lawyers in New York simply do not have this kind of experience.
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The attorneys for the insurance companies know who we are and they know we am not afraid to take a case all the way to trial if they don’t make a fair settlement offer. This allows me to get the largest possible settlement for you before trial. I won’t settle your case for pennies on the dollar. We will use the knowledge we have spent years building, and the inside knowledge I gained working for the other side, to maximize your recovery with the minimum impact on your busy life. If a fair settlement can’t be reached, I am the advocate you want in the courtroom.
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