Sentences with phrase «as the scaffolding law»

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Alliance executive director Tom Stebbins said trial lawyers have profited handsomely while driving up the cost of doing business in New York by blocking needed reforms to provisions such as the «scaffold law,» which holds contractors and property owners fully liable no matter what if workers are hurt in falls from heights under unsafe conditions.

Russell worked as trial counsel for various firms concentrating in personal injury matters, including motor vehicle accidents, tractor trailer accidents, labor law and scaffolding cases, premises injuries and other complex litigation.

New York State Labor Law § 240, in particular, protects workers injured in scaffold falls, including window washers, painters, power washers who fall as a result of a defective or broken scaffold.