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Injured Bay Constable files Notice of Claim on the Town of Oyster Bay for Injuries he sustained....
Posted on 3/22/2012

Paul Hofmann obtains two important decisions in Maritime and Construction Law...
Posted on 2/14/2012

LOOPHOLE FOR ‘INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS’ BEING CLOSED...
Posted on 12/15/2011

Construction Injury involving Elevation difference, in conjunction with the weight of the object and lack of equipment, created sufficient elevation-related risk to trigger scaffold law liability....
Posted on 11/29/2011

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DISCLAIMER: Please note that every case is different and these verdicts and settlements, while accurate, do not represent what we may obtain for you in your case.

Fall from building

Verdict for 70 year old lady who fell 10 feet from one floor of an apartment to the other through an opening a contractor created but failed to cover. Verdict included $2,225,000 for pain and suffering for traumatic brain injury, loss of sense of taste, compression fractures of vertebra. March 2007.

Awarded: $2,252,000

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