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Injured Workers Are Not Required to Prove Accident was Foreseeable to Win Summary Judgment on Labor Law 240(1) Claim

By Leandros Vrionedes | Posted on April 30, 2012

In Cesar Ortega v. New York, a construction worker was injured when a heavy metal pipe caused the platform/scaffold he was working on to topple over, sending him down eight feet to the ground. The construction project at issue was the Second Avenue Subway Tunnel Construction Project in Manhattan, so the worker sued the… Read More »

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