NEW YORK -- A construction crane owner who was acquitted of manslaughter in a collapse that killed two workers is now facing a civil wrongful death trial.
Lawyers for the slain workers' families gave opening statements Friday. They're suing crane owner James Lomma (LOH'-mah), his company and others involved in a Manhattan high-rise construction site where a crane snapped apart in May 2008.
Defense openings are due Tuesday.
The collapse killed crane operator Donald C. Leo and sewer company worker Ramadan Kurtaj. Their lawyers say Lomma allowed a shoddy repair that failed and sparked the collapse.
Prosecutors made, and jurors rejected, a similar argument in Lomma's 2012 criminal trial.
There, Lomma's lawyers said he got the repair done responsibly and other factors caused the collapse.
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