New York's Scaffold Law, which “places the burden of responsibility on the contractor to prove that the job site was safe for workers,” could be facing a major change.
State legislators have proposed an amendment that would add language requiring juries to consider the actions of workers in weighing injury lawsuits.
(http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/change-construction-law-puts-burden-workers-article-1.1373920)
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