Today’s New York Times article on the NY Workers’ Compensation system is a major disappointment given that the paper spent 18 months preparing what is essentially an ext... Continue Reading
I’ll be giving my annual New York Workers’ Compensation Law lecture to the St. John’s Law School Labor Relations and Employment Law Society this Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 6:30 P... Continue Reading
I am humbled to have been selected a 2009 recipient of the Clara Lemlich Public Service Award from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial Foundation for my work as Co-Chairman of the Ne... Continue Reading
The Lexis Nexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center Powered by Larson’s recently announced the 2008 honorees for the LexisNexis Top 25 Blogs for Workers’ Compensation. The New York Disability Law Bl... Continue Reading
At this festive time of year, when so many of us are struggling in economic despair, let us not forget all that we still have. In the spirit of the Christmas season, let us try to put aside our wo... Continue Reading
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice must have been reading the New York Disability Law Blog recently when we were the first to call for a criminal probe of Walmart’s role in causing... Continue Reading
It has now been one week since the sad death of Walmart worker Jdimytai Damour, and of course, this being New York, the lawsuits are already flying. One attorney has filed a lawsuit for the famil... Continue Reading
Photos courtesy of Newsday In the wake of yesterday’s Black Friday Walmart tragedy, one’s first reaction might be to blame the alleged "savages" who trampled the innocen... Continue Reading
As the New York Disability Law Blog has done since its inception, today we pay respects, on the seventh anniversary of 9/11, to the families of all those killed or injured in this devasta... Continue Reading
Happy New Year to all the readers of the New York Disability Law Blog! Over the course of 2007, we are pleased to report that our firm has once again helped thousands of injured and disabled ... Continue Reading