NY Long Term Disability Attorneys have had some pretty good days in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently with cases like McCauley v. Unum. Unfortunately, today the winning streak stopped c... Continue Reading
OK – its time to try out this Twitter thing! My good friend Kevin O’Keefe of LexBlog says it is an important tool to provide helpful info to my clients and readers, and I have gre... Continue Reading
When I first started practicing workers’ compensation law in the early 1990’s at the Hempstead, NY hearing office, Robert (Bob) Beloten was one of the sitting Workers’ ... Continue Reading
How many times has one of your clients told you the IME or FCE physically hurt them during the course of a so called "independent medical exam" or "functional capacity exam"... Continue Reading
Adding to an increasingly positive legacy, outgoing NY Workers’ Comp Board Chairman Zachary S. Weiss has left injured workers a major tool to combat insurance company IME (independent medical... Continue Reading
I should have picked up the clues! A few weeks ago I was speaking at the New York Social Security Disability Bar Association Annual Dinner in Manhattan. This is always a great night for... Continue Reading
Last week the New York Daily News had an excellent story by Heidi Evans detailing the battle 9/11 responder Daniel Arrigo has gone through to obtain his workers’ compensation benefits. ... Continue Reading
Yada Yada Yada! The final installment of the NY Times series on the New York Workers’ Compensation system is much like the first installment – a regurgitation of anecdotal pablum w... Continue Reading
As you can tell from reading my post yesterday, I was not overly impressed by the first installment of the NY Times series on the Workers’ Compensation system in New York. I thought it ... Continue Reading
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