$3.5 Million
Injured Worker Gets $3.5 Million – The Buffalo News
———-, a Buffalo plasterer who suffered career-ending back injuries in a scaffolding collapse at a Lockport construction site, has accepted a $3.5 million settlement. The settlement was accepted by ———- as a State Supreme Court jury was on the verge of deliberations in a brief trial, according to attorney William B. Collins.
The settlement will be paid by carriers for D.R. Chamberlain Corp. of Lockport, general contractor of the job ———- was injured on.
———-, who will get the full cash settlement within three weeks, suffered permanent back injuries. ———- was 8 feet off the ground at the time of the scaffolding collapse, but didn’t fall to the ground; his left leg got caught in the collapsed scaffolding, severely twisting his back and causing permanent injuries, his attorneys said.