The Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C. - Multimillion-Dollar Settlement in Crane Collapse Lawsuit

Construction artisan hailed as hero in baleful tragedy abreast Bridgeport, Tex.

FORT WORTH – The Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C., is announcement a $3.1 actor adjustment in a blameworthy afterlife accusation filed on account of an El Paso ancestors adjoin a crane rental aggregation afterward an August 2000 abstract abreast Bridgeport, Tex., that claimed the activity of a architecture artisan who pushed his acquaintance to assurance afore accepting addled by a falling crane boom.

Attorneys John M. Cummings and Steven C. Laird of The Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C., in Fort Worth represented the wife and four actual developed accouchement of Emilio Talavera in the accusation adjoin Fort Worth-based Anthony Crane Rental, which operates beneath the name Maxim Crane Works.

On Aug. 26, 2000, Mr. Talavera was alive on a architecture aggregation at a Mitchell Gas Services bulb abreast Bridgeport, Tex. Mr. Talavera, 53, and addition artisan were continuing beneath a crane bang if a bang addendum became dislodged and started falling against the ground. It was after abstruse that the bang malfunction was a absolute aftereffect of modifications fabricated by Anthony Crane Rental. When the crane abettor shouted a admonishing to the workers below, Mr. Talavera pushed a accessory to assurance afore accepting addled in the arch by the falling boom. Mr. Talavera, who was hailed as a hero for extenuative his friend, died anon thereafter.

The accusation declared that Anthony Crane Rental bootless to appropriately advance and audit the equipment, and break adapted the crane above-mentioned to the accident. The allegations were accepted in a 2001 address issued by board with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

“This tragedy could accept been prevented were it not for the absolute apathy and carelessness of Anthony Crane Rental,” says Mr. Cummings, advance advocate for the Talavera family. “Mr. Talavera acted heroically in preventing added accident of life, and will be remembered with abundant adulation and admiration by his family, accompany and co-workers. While no advantage is absolutely sufficient, the ancestors is admiring to abutting this sad affiliate of their lives.”

The Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C.
2400 Scott Ave.
Fort Worth, Texas 76103

Press Contact: Mary Stallings, 817-531-3000

The Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C., is a Fort Worth, Texas, law close that represents individuals and families in cases involving claimed injury, blameworthy death, trucking accidents, medical malpractice, architecture website accidents, articles accountability and business litigation. You can acquaintance Mr. Laird by buzz at 817-531-3000 or 800-448-2889 or via e-mail at laird@texlawyers.com. The firm's Web website is www.texlawyers.com.