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(EMAILWIRE.COM, April 29, 2012 ) New York, NY - New York personal injury attorney Steven Wildstein will be signing a petition urging lawmakers to vote down an amendment to New York’s ladder law, and he asks New Yorkers to join him.
Under the New York State ladder law, or Labor Law 240, property owners and businesses are accountable for injuries that occur in ladder or scaffolding accidents. These safeguards for workers are in danger. New York is currently the only state with such a law, which enables injured workers to seek damages for injuries sustained on the job. Advocates of tort reform, supported by representatives of the insurance companies, have submitted an amendment to the law that would erode property owner and business liability, which these supporters contend will help reduce fraud and protect businesses from frivolous lawsuits. Unions and workers to not agree, however, and neither does Wildstein.
“I am signing this petition because these proposed reforms will make it harder for injured workers to receive the help they need after an injury,” Wildstein said. “Working construction is a dangerous job, and this law protects workers by using the threat of money damages to pressure employers to keep their work sites as safe as possible.”
The attorneys at the Law Office of Steven Wildstein have over half a century of experience between them. Wildstein has successfully taken on large insurance companies on behalf of his clients, and his firm’s multimillion dollar ceiling collapse case earned placement in the Top New York Verdicts in 2010 in Verdict Search, a research publication often referenced by sources like the New York Times and the National Law Journal. He earned his law degree from Hofstra Law School and has been in private practice for 30 years.
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