New York ERISA long term disability claimants just received a big assist from New York State Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills . Following the lead of California’s Insurance Department, S... Continue Reading
Workers’ Comp Alliance Co-Chairs John Sciortino recently advocated the position of injured workers at a well attended public Roundtable in Albany sponsored by State Senator George Maziarz. On... Continue Reading
I will be travelling to Albany tomorrow with New York WorkersÄô Compensation Alliance Legislative Co-Chair John Sciortino to take part in the second of a series of Roundtable Discussions hosted by... Continue Reading
To the Editor: I know Newsday is one of Long Island’s major employers (owned by the Times-Tribune conglomerate), but I never thought its own corporate self interest would would infect its pos... Continue Reading
With all the talk of workers’ compensation reform in New York lately, some of you may have thought that we forgot about the long term disability and social security disability claim side of o... Continue Reading
I will be traveling to the State Capitol tomorrow, with fellow New York WorkersÄô Compensation Alliance Board member Barbara Levine, to attend the Senate WorkersÄô Compensation Reform hearings ca... Continue Reading
I had the pleasure of lecturing at St. John’s Law School last Friday in Professor Dave Gregory’s Employment Law class. Besides the general overview that I usually do on the workers̵... Continue Reading
NY WORKERSÄô COMPENSATION ALLIANCE (WCA) Position On Governor Pataki’s Proposed Changes To The WorkersÄô Compensation System Budget Bill Article VII A.9561/S.6461 The New York workersÄô co... Continue Reading
Big decision from the Court of Appeals on 2/16/05 that all New York Workers’ Compensation lawyers need to know about. In Brisson V. County of Onondoga, the Court held that New York employers ... Continue Reading
Just read the New York Workers’ Compensation Alliance’s take on “Comp Watch ’06”, the newsletter put out by the New York State Business Council. It’s called R... Continue Reading