Nassau County Construction Accident & Work Injury Lawyers

If you are an eligible employee, workers' compensation covers medical care and part of your lost wages, whoever was at fault, and you generally cannot sue your own employer. You may also sue an owner, contractor or other company that is legally responsible. On a one- or two-family house job, the homeowner may be exempt from Labor Law 240(1) and 241(6), so the contractor's role matters. The carrier usually has a lien on part of any recovery, subject to statutory exceptions.

We do not rank job types or towns; we have no reliable public data for that here. Construction injuries typically involve falls from ladders, roofs and scaffolds, falling material, trenches and machinery. On a Nassau house job the homeowner exemption from Labor Law 240(1) and 241(6) may matter; on a County, town, village or school district job, a notice deadline may matter.

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We do not publish ranges.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. Write down who owns the property and who hired your employer; on a house job, note whether the homeowner gave directions. Photograph the hazard and any permit. If a town, village, school district or the County owns the job, call early: a notice can be due within 90 days.

Yes. 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. Against the County, a town, city, village or school district, a notice of claim is usually due within 90 days where required, and suit generally within one year and 90 days. 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. Your compensation claim has its own deadlines.

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 Nassau towns by work accidents, so we do not. For a claim, the type of job matters more: house renovations and roofing, commercial buildings along the main roads, school and village projects, and road work each bring different owners. Who owns the job affects whether the homeowner exemption or a public notice deadline applies. Tell us the address and we will identify the owner.

In an emergency, call 911. The State designates these adult trauma centers in Nassau: Nassau University Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital and NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island (Level I), and Mount Sinai South Nassau (Level II). Wherever you are treated, say the injury happened at work, and keep every report and bill. This is orientation, not a recommendation.