A rigger who worked on a massive construction crane that collapsed and killed seven people in New York City has been stripped of his licenses after an administrative judge said his sloppy work was to blame for the collapse, despite …
An asbestos-cleanup foreman who said he was a scapegoat for inspectors’ failures was acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges Tuesday in a case involving a blaze that killed two firefighters at a ground zero bank tower. Two other construction-company …
A former TV news staffer’s pioneering lawsuit over bedbug bites she received at her office has been thrown out by a judge who said workers can’t necessarily hold their employers’ landlords responsible for injuries on the job. Jane Clark’s lawyer …
A former TV news staffer’s pioneering lawsuit over bedbug bites she received at her office has been thrown out by a judge who said workers can’t necessarily hold their employers’ landlords responsible for injuries on the job. Jane Clark’s lawyer …
There were a raft of hazards and regulatory failures at a contaminated ground zero tower where two firefighters died, but that’s not a reason to toss out manslaughter charges against three construction company figures who worked there, a judge ruled …
A reckless rigger’s safety shortcuts caused a crane collapse that killed seven people, a prosecutor said as the man’s manslaughter trial began Tuesday. His lawyer said the rigger was being unfairly blamed for bad decisions that set up a vulnerable …
It was one of the nation’s deadliest construction crane accidents: A 200-foot-tall rig crashed down on a dense city block, killing seven people, leaving a gash of destruction near the United Nations and raising questions about the safety of the …
A prominent organ-transplant hospital in New York wasn’t to blame for the death of a Singapore-born man who became riddled with cancer after getting a kidney from a donor who unknowingly had uterine cancer, jurors found Friday. The Queens jury …
Vincent Liew waited five years for the kidney that was supposed to change his life. Instead, the organ ended it. The kidney came from a woman who had uterine cancer, but she and doctors didn’t know it. Once her disease …
A construction-crane company admitted Tuesday that it paid off a top city inspector to shortcut safety inspections and licensing exams in a case that helped heighten scrutiny of the towering machines that help build a city of high-rises. Nu-Way Crane …
