Trial Counsel in Iron worker case results in 2.5 M recovery,

Creedon & Gill partner Peter J. Creedon was asked to join a prominent New York City trial firm in an Iron Worker trial in Suffolk County. The request was made because of this firms powerful reputation with the judges on Long Island for their excellence, a reputation forged over 30 years. The decision to bring in Creedon & Gill paid off in this very difficult case involving an Iron Worker injured in a fall on black ice at a construction cite. New York Labor Law Section 200, which codifies an owner’s common law duty to maintain a safe place to work. After Mr. Creedon spent a week picking a jury along with the other attorneys, the Judge who was assigned turned to Mr. Creedon to give an honest appraisal of the what the merits of the case were, and the matter settled on those terms for some 2.5 million dollars.