$6.5 Million Settlement for Estate of Construction Worker Obtained by Marielise Kelly and Edward Gargiulo

5-31-2023 –  Edward Gargiulo and Marielise Kelly obtained a $6.5 million dollar settlement on behalf of the Estate of a worker fatally injured in construction site accident.   The case involved an unwitnessed fall at a construction jobsite.   The Defendant General Contractor defended on the basis that the decedent was solely responsible for his accident by failing to take ordinary precautions for his own safety.      Gargiulo / Rudnick’s attorneys developed factual evidence, and expert opinion, that the General Contractor deviated from acceptable standards of care in the construction industry in numerous respects resulting in exposure of the worker to a concealed hazard that caused his death.  Case identifying information withheld on basis of a confidentiality agreement.