Month: November 2015

Most employees in the United States are entitled to workers' compensation should they suffer a medical illness or injury as a result of their job. This compensation is great not just for financial support, but also for providing emotional and mental relief. It would...

Imagine that you go to work one day and you suffer an injury due to something that happened while you were performing your job duties. You will almost certainly get some workers' compensation benefits as a result of this incident -- but you may also be thinking that...

As many New Yorkers know, scaffolding has a complicated presence in our state. Now, obviously, on a literal level, scaffolding isn't that complicated. It provides necessary structure for construction workers when they are on the job. Without scaffolding, construction...

Block O'Toole & Murphy is a construction accident law firm that has been involved in many significant building collapse cases, so we are very carefully following the facts of last Friday morning's tragic collapse at 25 West 38th Street in Manhattan as they...