Legal Question in Construction Law in Pennsylvania

Re: fell off ladder at work...

NO ONE can answer your question as posed. IF you can prove you were hurt working on someone's property, IF you can prove liability as to the contractor, homeowner or ladder manufacturer, then your monetary damages are suppose to reflect your actual damages, and that varies greatly. Go to several attorneys who handle PI or WC claims, and see what they tell you after they can review your information. We on this list can not answer except in the most general of terms questions where we do not have enough information. People THINK anyone can sue for anything and get a truckload of money - THAT'S A LIE told to you by the people who want to make it even harder for anyone to sue for injuries. That lie is told to you by the people who "own" the news, big business, so they can get even more "tort reform" legislation passed to make ONLY hugely valuable claims worth pursuing. In other words, if you have injuries worth "only" $20,000, or $50,000, or $100,000, many attorneys will not take them, because experts can cost tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention their time, their support staff, office costs, etc., etc. - In other words, they (people with money, i.e. - Bush's constituency) are trying to eliminate most claims, just by making it too hard to win, or too costly. They do not care about fairness or justice. The judicial system is being perverted by the people who have money, to keep that money in their pockets, no matter what they do. I'm not suggesting the do things to intentionally cause people harm, but if it is a choice between making $1.00, or $1.10, but putting someone at risk or hurting them, most of "them" will take the money, because it hurts you, not them. It has always been the threat of litigation, or the loss of money from bad publicity that drove companies to try to make their products safe, not their conscience. I expect you will not find an attorney to take your PI claim, because it will most likely cost too much and produce too little in damages, assuming you win, and the Rules of Court are designed to make it hard, not easy on plaintiff's.