$300,000 Settlement for Construction Accident

$300,000 result for a 24-year-old student, who, while attending a New Year’s Eve party, fell 11 feet over the railing of a sidewalk bridge and into an exterior basement pit. Plaintiff suffered cervical fractures with instability that required surgery and left residual nerve damage. $300,000 for a laborer who suffered a comminuted tibia and fibula while removing a boiler from a commercial property. Plaintiff alleged that the work was conducted in a dangerous and hazardous manner and in violation of the New York Labor Law §200, 240(1) and 241(6).