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The New York lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy carefully review all of the legal decisions that impact the hard-working women and men in the construction industry. The construction laws in New York are designed to protect workers and promote a safe working...
The New York lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy have been paying attention to the ongoing dialogue on New York's Scaffold Law. New York's Scaffold Law has been instrumental in assuring that construction workers are provided a safe place to work for more than a...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined DISH Network because it blacklisted an employee who reported fraudulent billing. Even though the employee was trying to save the company money, he was blacklisted after reporting that a vendor was...
The increasingly fashionable neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn had more traffic deaths than any other part of the city, according to data compiled by the blogger I Quant. Brooklyn officials responded with demands to Mayor de Blasio to start his Vision Zero...
Although the accident occurred in Boston, it could have easily happened in any American city, including New York. Three workers suffered non-life-threatening injuries when a roof collapsed inside a 33-story residential building under construction. The building, at 45...
A New York City television station's investigative team found that there were more alcohol-related crashes in Long Island's Suffolk County than in any other county in New York State. Channel 4's I-Team examined records of car accidents from the New York State...
The lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy have long been calling on New York to begin enforcing the laws in a meaningful way against reckless drivers. Far too often we have seen defenseless folks seriously injured or killed by a blatantly reckless driver only to see...
In the early 1990's, now legendary deceased New York City cop Jack Maple and police commissioner Bill Bratton began to develop the well-chronicled Compstat program. Compstat was a crime tracking program that was introduced during Bratton's first stint as New York...
The lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy hope the massive upswing in construction projects is coupled with a commitment to worker safety. Historically, the two have not gone hand in hand. The increase in construction around New York is generally viewed as a sign of...
The lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy have frequently been asked to represent victims in serious New York City bus crashes. Just because of the sheer size of a bus and the limited safety features for passengers, bus accidents can often be some of the most...
