David Marsh settled a case where a man died from an on-the-job fall through a rooftop. The laborer, who was an undocumented immigrant, was helping to put up a metal building in Huntsville when he fell through an opening for a skylight, landing on concrete 14 feet below. He did not know the opening was there; moreover, the opening was covered by a roofing membrane so it created a trap-door effect. The key issue in the case was the lack of fall protection equipment provided at the job site.
Alabama’s Unique Rule for Defective Products
A Product Liability Framework Unique to Alabama Alabama takes a genuinely different approach to defective product claims than most other states, one built around a doctrine found nowhere else in the country. Understanding how this framework actually works matters...