Chipping Away at the Scaffold Law: Legal, Insurance, and Safety Perspectives on the Sole Proximate Cause and Recalcitrant Worker Defenses – Webinar

This program will delve into the defenses available in scaffold law lawsuits, some recent success stories and the lessons learned from those successes.  The panel of legal and insurance professionals as well as a contractor involved in one of those success stories will talk about how to give you the best possible chance to fend off such a claim.  

Who should attend: Project Management personnel, Risk Managers, Safety professionals, Insurance Professionals, Lawyers

Topics to be covered:

Legal:

• Background of the Scaffold Law
• Legislative efforts at reform
• The sole proximate cause defense
• The recalcitrant worker defense
• Courts’ seeming rediscovery of the defenses
• Welliver, a success story

Insurance:

• The traditional model
• The captive model
• Importance of taking active role in your claims
• Recapture your insurance investment

Safety:

• Building the success story
• The importance of training and instruction
• The importance of employee acknowledgement

Speakers: Greg J. Spaun, Esq., Partner, Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP
J.D. Young, COO, Welliver
Doran Lamond, Senior Vice President, Risk Strategies
Joe Hogan, Vice President, Building Services, AGC NYS

Cost: $45

Click here to register.  Once you register you will be forwarded back to the AGC NYS website for payment.