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Workers Compensation Insurance Industry Scandal Keeps Growing

Employers may finally be waking up to the reality that workers compensation insurance companies ( not claimants or their lawyers ) are the real culprits in pushing up workers compensation premiums.... Continue Reading

New York Disability Lawyer Blog Vacation

I will be taking a break from the world of workers compensation and disability claims until August 1, 2005. My family and I are taking a learning vacation at Cornell’s Adult University. This ... Continue Reading

New York Workers Compensation Rates Increase by 5%

New York State Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills threw a bone to workers compensation insurance carriers in New York State by granting them a 5% rate increase last week. The workers compensatio... Continue Reading

Long Island Press Workers Compensation Cover Story

High Costs, Low Benefits: Why New York State has the Worst Workers Compensation in the Nation” is the front page story in the July 14, 2005 edition of the Long Island Press. Accompanying the ... Continue Reading

Pataki Signs 9/11 New York Disability Pension Law

In a significant win for the rescue and recovery heroes of 9/11 and New York’s municipal unions, last week Gov. George Pataki finally signed the 75% disability pension bill for workers who be... Continue Reading

Social Security Disability Lawyer Seminar 8/11/05

The Suffolk County Bar Association has invited me to present a Continuing Legal Education Seminar on Thursday, August 11, 2005, entitled “Malpractice Avoidance for Workers Compensation & ... Continue Reading

Workers Compensation for Victims of Highway Crash?

The fiery crash yesterday which killed three immigrant workers commuting in a dangerous 15 passenger van to a factory on Long Island raises interesting workers compensation legal issues. The worker... Continue Reading

Workers Compensation Bar Raises $20,000 for Pediatric Cancer

The annual New York Workers Compensation Bar Association golf outing yesterday raised a record $20,000 for pediatric cancer research. Bill Turley, and Craig Rosasco led our golf contingent, while A... Continue Reading

New York Workers Compensation Benefit Increase Bill Introduced

Here is a summary of the new Workers Compensation bill introduced on 6/9/05 in the State Assembly and supported by the New York State AFL-CIO. It provides a long overdue benefit increase for injure... Continue Reading

Poetry to the Rescue for AIG?

The Workers’ Comp Insider, an excellent employer oriented blog for workers compensation info published by Lynch Ryan, has a great post on AIG’s public relations attempts to get out from... Continue Reading