After decades of inaction in Albany, there’s a bipartisan push in Congress to fix a 140-year-old state law that’s costing the state millions of dollars per year. New York’s scaffold law holds contractors and property owners completely liable for damages when an elevation-related accident happens on a job site. But now the policy continues to drive up building costs in the state, and has led to an uptick of fraud. Lawmakers in Albany have refused to take action for decades, making a federal fix the most likely path to reform. Also, Capital Tonight digs more into the story of DOCCs with Chris Gelardi, an award-winning investigative reporter for New York Focus, a non-profit investigative newsroom committed to covering New York state government and politics.
