New York's highest court on Thursday added two decisions to the ever-growing mountain of case law on the type of activities that will bring a worker under the protection of Labor Law Section 240(1) – otherwise known as the "scaffold law."
The Court of Appeals ruled that a worker who was working on the installation and removal of a billboard advertisement was engaged in alteration of the "structure" within the meaning of Section 240(1). That case was Saint v. Syracuse Supply Co.
In a separate decision also released Thursday, the Court of Appeals ruled that a...
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