When somebody’s looking for a Brownsville New York construction accident attorney how many people I wonder think about that in the first instance. The only people who would be thinking about that in the first instance is someone who is injured on the job in Brownsville, New York, at a construction site. Or it could be somebody who owns the construction site or runs the construction site or owns the property that the construction site sits on. In any event, accidents are never fun and by its very nature or by their very nature they involve somebody being hurt.
When someone’s hurt on a construction site it’s very important to make sure that you get all of the facts and all the details correct. and it’s important to have all of the facts on the details correct because you want to know the exact circumstances under which the injury happened. If it’s important you keep track of the weather, the time of day, the time of year, who else was there, and any other relevant factors. You might want to if the wind is a factor, keep track of the wind. and if other people are there, take down their names their contact information including their addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses, so that we can get in touch with them to continue to I have them perhaps give a witness statement or at least a factual account of what happened during the events leading up and then during the actual events of the accident and then the accident itself.
A Brownsville New York construction accident attorney would or should know the ins and outs of exactly what you should have when you are preparing your documents to put into a potential file for review by the attorney and the attorney staff at the law firm.
There are lots of different buildings that are tall buildings that are short buildings that are fat buildings and they’re skinny buildings. For some reason, we’ve known to call tall buildings skyscrapers. perhaps the tall buildings because they nearly scrape the sky. Curiously, there are no buildings that I’m aware of that are called treescapers although they tend to scrape the trees or at least have the ability to scrape the trees. I don’t know if that would be preposterous or not, however perhaps the word skyscrapers somebody thought was silly at that point that tree scrapers would be. Perhaps time will tell, perhaps it will not.
they’re also single-family homes there’s multifamily homes there’s apartment buildings there’s Office Buildings and there’s mixed use buildings. depending on the borough, and where in the borough, one type of Housing Development or complex or business Park wood or could be more popular or more prevalent than another.
And in fact there are new buildings that are being built all the time. There are office buildings, Medical buildings, and even places where a Brownsville New York construction accident attorney could put his or her office, in either new construction, existing construction, existing build, or a building that has been renovated, or that has been in the family or the law practice for years and years.
As you may know Brownsville New York is in brooklyn. and Brooklyn is in Kings county. and there are lots of different courts in Kings County as there are in the other counties of New York as well. and within the court system in Kings county, there are civil courts which deal with civil matters and then there’s a supreme court, which also deals with civil matters, but depending on whether you’re not in you’re in the civil court of New York it’s actually the city court of New York or the Supreme Court of New York depends on the dollar threshold of the amount in issue. the Civil Court typically deals with housing issues as well. Although that’s not to say that the Supreme Court can also do with housing issues but it’s on the contractual basis and not on a landlord tenant basis. The landlord tenant basis is in the housing court. but that topic is getting a little far afield from construction accidents or accidents at construction sites in Brownsville.
There are contractual relationships that should be at least explored in the context of a Brownsville construction accident or any accident for that matter and if it occurs in Brownsville then the Brownsville New York construction accident attorney that is working on the case will be able to or at least should be able to help with that. Now there are two perspectives at least that the Brownsville New York construction accident attorney works from. The first is from the perspective of the injured party, that’s typically the worker, the worker that is on site at the construction place where the injury occurred. The other perspective is from the perspective of the owner, or the general contractor or the subcontractor. or it could be any number of those people or factors that are involved with the incident or accident.
It’s important to understand the contracts because the contracts talk about the rights and obligations of the parties. Here there could be an indemnification provision or there could be a provision that limits liability, or shifts liability, and this also brings into play, when we’re talking about liability, how an insurance company may or may not be involved. and when there’s an insurance company that may be involved or is involved then we are also dealing with other contract language and the contract language that is applicable for insurance companies is what’s known commonly as the policy. The policy language will dictate what is covered and what is not. and often there’s fights between the insured and the insurer and the injured party as to what’s covered and what’s not covered of course the injured party wants to get recovery and it really doesn’t matter where it’s from just that it’s finally. and any good Brownsville New York construction accident attorney will tell you that and will tell you that the injured parties are the happiest under the circumstances when they are paid quickly and in and out that makes sense to compensate for their injuries. Call us at 212-500-1891 for help.