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The Scaffold Law is a New York State law that holds employers and property owners fully liable when an employee becomes injured due to a gravity-related fall while working at high elevations without proper safety equipment. The law was enacted in 19th century and is contained in New York State Labor Law § 240/241.
“Taken from one end to the other, New York City’s 8,500 installations of scaffolding would stretch about 400 miles — long enough to stretch from Manhattan to Montreal and a blight on every ...
Devlin v. Smith, 89 N.Y. 470 (1882) [1] was a seminal case decided by the New York Court of Appeals in the area of product liability law.. The Court held that a duty to third parties "exists when a defect is such as to render the article in itself imminently dangerous, and serious injury to any person using it is a natural and probable consequence of its use."
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The truck driver hit the scaffolding at West 29th Street near Eighth Avenue around 8:15 a.m. G.N.Miller/NYPost One of the injured people was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. G.N ...
New York uses a system called "continuous codification" whereby each session law clearly identifies the law and section of the Consolidated Laws affected by its passage. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Unlike civil law codes , the Consolidated Laws are systematic but neither comprehensive nor preemptive, and reference to other laws and case law is often necessary ...
A judge warned Monday he may move up the March 2026 trial date between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, as their attorneys accused each other of improperly seeking to sway public opinion. Judge ...
Laws of the State of New York are the session laws of the New York State Legislature published as an annual periodical, i.e., "chapter laws", bills that become law (bearing the governor's signature or just certifications of passage) which have been assigned a chapter number in the office of the legislative secretary to the governor, and printed in chronological order (by chapter number).