New York City employs literally thousands of construction workers who work on the municipal construction or repair sites throughout the city. Apart from that, thousands of other construction workers work on various state, private, and commercial construction sites throughout the state. While construction workers involved in scaffolding, digging a trench, or repairing an elevator shaft are constantly at high risk of suffering injuries, the more obvious risks come from the site environments. Accidents like being hit by a hard object, falling down from a ladder, or becoming deaf due to battling sound explosions are pretty common at construction sites. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration

All too often, regular maintenance issues like poor lighting, wet floors, unsteady hand rails, or torn carpets cause trip and fall accidents to victims. Surprisingly, even in well-maintained facilities in New York, these accidents can happen to anyone anytime, and some due to personal carelessness like walking without looking at the floor. On public roads or parks, pedestrians or visitors can have trip and fall accidents due to rain, ice, or a potholes, but each and every case may not lead to a personal injury lawsuit. Tip and fall accidents on private or public properties In most cases, a person injured in a trip and fall accident

Thousands of people in New York get injured from slip and fall accidents every year, but every incident does not warrant legal action against the property owner. In fact, even when a property owner has been somewhat negligent in property maintenance, it can be quite difficult to prove that the owner of the property is directly responsible for a slip and fall accident. Moreover, property owners cannot be held responsible for accidents that any reasonable person could have avoided just by being more careful! Generally, here are some common rules of thumb to assess intentional negligence of property owners in a slip and fall related personal injury

Generally, a personal injury lawsuit in New York can go in many different directions, depending on the merits of a particular case, the skill of the attorney, and the availability of strong evidence, but the legal process involved in filing a case and proceeding with the case is the same. In this article, the primary steps of evidence gathering and filing a personal injury case are outlined, which are: Gather medical evidence of personal injury Consult an attorney File initial court papers Find facts during trial (discovery) Motions before trial Trials Collect compensation Appeal against a court verdict In a step-by-step personal injury case, here