Business groups are again calling for an end to New York's fall-from-heights liability law, and they're hoping that if the governor won't take action, Congress will.
The Scaffold Law Reform Coalition, made up of 75 construction firms and other businesses in the state, sent a letter this week to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, asking him to use his executive authority in the state budget process to scrap the 1880s-era law.
The “scaffold law,” as it's known, pre-exists the workers' compensation exclusive remedy. It holds contractors and property owners to “abs...
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