Bronx Work Accident & Construction Injury Lawyer

If you are an eligible employee, workers' compensation covers medical care and part of your lost wages, whoever was at fault. You generally cannot sue your own employer. You can also sue an owner, contractor or other company that is legally responsible, for example under the Labor Law. The compensation carrier usually has a lien on part of that recovery, subject to statutory exceptions. Your employer may not retaliate for a compensation claim; complaints go to the Workers' Compensation Board within two years.

We do not rank job types or neighborhoods; we have no reliable public data for that here. Construction injuries typically involve falls from ladders, scaffolds and roofs, being struck by falling material, trench and excavation hazards, and machinery. On NYCHA, school, transit and City work in the Bronx, who owns the job matters too, because notice deadlines can be short.

Yes, but usually not your employer. You can keep collecting compensation and sue an owner, general contractor, another subcontractor, an equipment maker or a driver who is legally responsible. Notice of the lawsuit goes to the carrier. The carrier usually has a lien on part of the recovery, subject to statutory exceptions, and a settlement for less than the compensation provided needs its written consent or a court order.

Labor Law 240(1) requires owners, contractors and their agents to provide proper protection against falls and falling objects during building, demolition, repair, alteration, painting, cleaning or pointing. If a missing or inadequate device caused the injury, your own carelessness is not a defense. With no violation and your own conduct the sole proximate cause, there is no claim. Owners of one- and two-family homes who contract for but do not direct or control the work may be exempt, depending on the property’s use.

We do not publish ranges. Value depends on the injury and its permanence, lost earnings, medical needs, the proof of responsibility, any compensation lien and the insurance available. A successful lawsuit can recover pain and suffering and lost earnings that compensation does not pay. The firm-wide results on this page are shown exactly as recorded; none names a county, and they are not predictions.

Get medical care and tell the doctor it happened at work. Give your employer written notice within 30 days. Photograph the device or hazard, the site and any permit sign naming the owner, and collect co-workers’ phone numbers. Do not give a recorded statement to the owner’s or contractor’s insurer, or sign anything, before talking to us. If NYCHA, the City or the State owns the job, call early: a notice can be due within 90 days.

You can still claim. The Workers' Compensation Board says benefits are available regardless of citizenship or immigration status. In Labor Law cases, the Court of Appeals held that federal immigration law does not bar a lost-wage claim, absent proof that the worker gave false work-authorization documents to get the job (Balbuena, 2006). Tell us your situation at the start so we can prepare for questions that may come up.

Injury claims: against a private owner or contractor, generally three years. NYCHA: a notice of intention, then suit within one year and 90 days. The City: a notice of claim, usually within 90 days where required, and suit within one year and 90 days. The School Construction Authority: one year. The State: within 90 days, a claim filed with the Court of Claims and served on the Attorney General, or a notice of intention served on the Attorney General. Death claims follow separate rules, as do survival claims.

Compensation comes from your employer's carrier without proof of fault and pays medical care and, for eligible workers, partial wage benefits based on wages and disability; for accidents from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027, weekly wage benefits are capped at $1,281.50. A Labor Law lawsuit is against an owner or contractor, not your employer, and can recover pain and suffering and lost earnings if a violation caused the injury. You can have both; the carrier usually has a lien on part of the lawsuit recovery.

No public dataset we rely on ranks Bronx neighborhoods by work accidents, so we do not. What matters for a claim is the kind of work and who owns it: apartment renovations and facade work, NYCHA and school projects, transit and highway work, and new buildings each bring different parties and, for public owners, different notice deadlines. Tell us the address and we will identify the owner.

In an emergency, call 911. The State designates the Bronx's adult trauma centers: NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln (Level I) and SBH Health System (Level II). Wherever you are treated, say the injury happened at work so the record shows it, and keep every report and bill. This is orientation, not a recommendation.