Scaffold Law News

New York’s Scaffold Law doesn’t improve workplace safety and diverts millions of dollars to litigation and insurance, that’s according to a study released earlier this month by researchers at the University at Albany and Cornell University. Labor Law 240 imposes …

Representatives from the construction and insurance industries are joining small business owners in Albany in an effort to reform the state’s so-called Scaffold Law. Mike Elmendorf, president of the state Association of General Contractors, says more than 150 people from …