When selecting a New York construction accident attorney, you want to see what level of confidence and experience they have with dealing with and addressing the New York State Court system. After all, this is a dispute or accident involving construction in New York, and typically these are handled in the New York State Court system. And the New New York State Court system is very complicated and nuanced, and it takes a person with a fair amount or a great amount of experience to understand the complexities. And someone who understands these complexities is very effective at representing clients in the context of New York construction, accidents and disputes surrounding those New York construction accidents. New York construction accidents are in or resulting from a construction site in New York. And New York comprises the whole state, and sometimes we are talking about New York, Justice New York City. And when it is New York just New York City it is the five boroughs of New York, which include Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island Island.
A New York construction accident Attorney should be familiar working on all of the burrows in New York City. Those burrows are important to work in because there are a lot of construction sites in those five burrows. And the CPLR addresses all of the procedural requirements in the context of the five bureaus and in the context of construction accidents and disputes surrounding the construction accidents that are and occur in the fibers of New York City. When somebody gets injured in a construction site in New York, it’s important that their rights are addressed fairly quickly, and the evidence is reserved, because when you preserve evidence, it is important to preserve evidence so that the evidence is available in the courtroom and for dealing with and addressing the facts of the case. Because you need to know the facts of the case in order to work on the best resolution for the parties involved. And the parties involved typically include a plaintiff and a defendant. The plaintiff is the one that’s typically injured, and the defendant is the one that may have caused the injury or is at least accused of causing the injury.
A New York Construction accident attorney either represents plaintiff, or defendant, or both. In my opinion, the attorney that is the most effective Kenssy both sides of the situation, and can effectively represent both plaintiffs and defendant. Of course the plaintiff and the defendants have to be in different cases, because the same attorney cannot represent a plaintiff in one case and the defendant in that same case. I’m sure that somebody would be able to come up with some weird exception, but nothing really comes to mind right now and then we do not need to waste our effort and think of a scenario where that may be appropriate because it probably isn’t. Even if there is a conflict waiver, that probably would not do the tricks because we are talking about the same lawsuit and the plaintiff on one side and the the defendant on the other side of the same side of fact, it just doesn’t work that way.
When a New York Construction accident attorney represents a plaintiff, that attorney is going to take all of the facts and understand what is going on and see what the evidence looks like. When we talk about the facts, we talk about things such as what was the construction site, where was the construction site, who was at the construction site, and what was the nature of the accident. We will also want to find out who owns the property, who the general contractor is, what other vendors were there, and what the insurance companies are. There are a lot of different constituents and a lot of different parties that can be involved in a construction accident lawsuit. And this is because there are a lot of different people who are on site, and a lot of different interests to our representative. And all of those or most of those parties should have their own insurance coverage, who deals with these types of lawsuits in cases. They may or may not be covered by Worker’s Compensation. But that is a different issue for a different time. And only the employer is typically the one who is entitled to avail itself of the workers compensation regime.
When there are a lot of people on a construction site, it is important to understand what the facts are and who is around and who is available and who the witnesses are. Sometimes it’s a very transient site for construction, and other times it’s not. A New York Construction accident attorney will be able to take all these details from the plaintiff at the time of the intake, and, as they are developing the record. The record is very important to be clean and clear and it is important for the documents to both be in a visual form and in electronic form. When the client has the paper form and the paper documents, there should be copies made, as well as there should also be copies made that are then transferred electronically to an electronic drive, like dropbox, that is helpful and not only Construction accident losses, but also when all the other types of losses and keeping trackers generally as well.
We had TheLawyerJames keep meticulous records, our preferences to keep them electronically. When we have electronic records, even in our construction cases and our construction accent cases, it’s important to have them electronically because then we can review them internally, very efficiently, send them to the court, send them to our adversary, send them to a New York Construction Accident Attorney on the other side, and send them and exchange them with the client as well as an important to keep a good and clean record system so that they are easily accessible, easily analyzed, and then easily decided and used to our advantage. When representing a defendant, on the other hand, it is important that you also keep good records as well. It’s also important to understand who the witnesses are, what time of day the accident happened out, what the Construction location site was, what the weather was outside, weather and weather was a factor or not cause the weather might not be a factor for instance if it’s inside. But if it’s inside, and there are no windows, whether it might be a factor. Or if it is outside in there during structural things on the outside, or for instance, on some other construction site where it’s important to know whether or not it is outside, that could also be important. Call us at 212-500-1891 to speak with an attorney at the office of The Lawyer James.