
Construction Worker Wins $4.7M Lawsuit
A 34-year-old construction worker who was left paralyzed by a fall at a Yorktown work site two years ago has laid claim to a $4.7 million settlement. A 34-year-old construction worker who was left paralyzed by a fall at a Yorktown work site two years ago has laid claim to a $4.7 million settlement. Palemon Mendez of White Plains has been living alone, without the benefit of workers compensation, in a situation his lawyer called commonplace for local immigrant workers. The plaintiff will finally be able to provide daily care for himself and pay for the future medical treatment so desperately needed and previously denied to him, said his attorney, David E. Worby. Worby said immigrant workers, like his client, often find themselves without protection afforded other American workers. This area has had an influx of Hispanic immigrants, and sometimes they have to struggle to be treated as citizens, he said. Mendez was working on an elevated platform at the Canterbury