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Soon-to-be publically-released settlement records in the case of a fatal crane collapse are now being challenged by a builder and developer.
The crane collapse occurred in March 2008, killing six construction workers and a passerby tourist from Florida. The crane was almost 200 feet tall and had crashed a block away from the United Nations headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on the East Side.
The settlements in question are the first of many court cases connected to the same accident. The passerby's case remains open, as does that of injured people, those with property damage, and others. Only the crane rigger, William Rapetti, was criminally charged for the incident but he was acquitted of all charges in 2010.
Families of the six construction workers had concluded their settlements over the course of the past two years. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead had sealed the details of the settlements until the resolution of all of the construction workers' cases, in order to protect their proceedings from further bias. But when all of the relevant cases were settled, one of the property damage plaintiffs called for the records to be made publically available, and Justice Edmead agreed.
Of course, days before the records were to be publically unsealed, the developer of the skyscraper appealed the ruling. The appeals court then sealed the records until the appeal was concluded. A construction company involved also plans to appeal the unsealing and has filed papers. A decision is not expected until March at the earliest.
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