In his Construction Accident Litigation column, Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo partner Brian J. Shoot writes that until the Court of Appeals' decision last year in 'Salazar v. Novalex Contracting,' whether a construction worker's fall into a trench came within the ambit of Labor Law §240(1) depended on in which department of the Appellate Division one happened to be. Now, in the wake of the Court of Appeals' ruling as to the fell-into-a-trench accident in Salazar, the answer is?almost precisely the same.
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Trenchant Divisions Regarding Trenches
New York Law Journal
July 17, 2012
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