High Court: Employment Questions Exist Over Injured Worker Who Sued

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York on Thursday reversed a ruling that said a worker who fell 40 feet at a construction site was an employee subject to exclusive remedy and couldn’t sue the firm overseeing the project. As documented in Matter of Trickey v. Black Riv. Plumbing, Heating & A.C. Inc., the claimant in 2020 was installing roof trusses on a pole barn being constructed on property owned by Black River Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning, when the trusses collapsed, causing him to fall 40 feet to the ground and sustain extensive or...