New York Disability Law Blog
Features news, information and support for those with long-term disability, Social Security disability and workers' compensation claims.
Author: Published by the New York-based Turley, Redmond & Rosasco, a disability law firm.
Blawg Related Categories: Benefits/ERISA • Disability Law • Labor & Employment • Workers Compensation
Recent Posts from New York Disability Law Blog
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Jury Awards DePascale Plaintiffs $12 Million Against Verizon for Failure to Clean Toxic Waste Site in Hicksville
In a ground-breaking victory in a David vs. Goliath courtroom setting (it appeared that Verizon had no fewer than 15 attorneys from around the country at the trial), our client Gerard DePascale, his wife, and…
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Disability Attorney Named to Board of Advisors at St. John's University Center for Labor and Employment Law
I am looking forward to attending the Inaugural Dinner of the new St. John's University School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law at the Williams Club in New York City this Thursday. In…
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LexisNexis Names New York Disability Law Blog Top Workers' Comp Blog for 2009!
The Attorneys at Turley Redmond, Rosasco & Rosasco are honored to have LexisNexis name our New York Disability Law Blog one of the top 25 workers compensation blogs in 2009 from across the United States for the second…
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Montana Wins ERISA Disability Claim Discretionary Clause Appeal - Why Doesn't New York Have Similar Ban?
"Discretionary Clauses" in ERISA disability insurance policies are the largest cause of unfair ERISA LTD claim denials across the country. They essentially create an uneven playing field in favor of an already powerful insurance company over a disabled claimant. Imagine if the Yankees were…
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Rosasco Lectures Again to Social Security Disability Attorneys on LTD Claims at NOSSCR Conference in San Francisco
I had the pleasure to lecture to Social Security Disability Lawyers this past Spring at the NOSSCR Conference in Washington, DC about "Winning Long Term Disability Claims at the Initial Level". They have invited me back to lecture…
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New Law Permits 9/11 Ground Zero Workers to Sue NYC according to Lawyer Rosasco
Great legal news for injured and ill 9/11 rescue and recovery workers! In an article published in Newsday today, Governor David Paterson has just signed a new law effective September 16, 2009 allowing workers who missed…
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Rosasco to Lecture on Workers' Compensation & Disability Law to State Bar Association
I will be travelling to Albany this Friday to present a lecture to the New York State Injured Workers' Bar Association (IWBA) entitled "The Interplay between Long Term Disability Claims, Social Security Disability Claims and Workers'…
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Remembering 9/11: Ground Zero Ironworker Picurro Still Fighting for Life
On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it seems appropriate that we all recognize that the health impacts on both victims and Ground Zero rescue workers continue in many cases to increase, not decrease. A colleague forwarded…
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Happy Labor Day 2009 from Queens' Workers Compensation Lawyers
Turley, Redmond & Rosasco, LLP, New York's Leading Construction Accident Lawyers and Workers' Compensation Lawyers, wishes all NY workers, either healthy or injured, a restful Labor Day 2009. You deserve it. Stay safe out there!
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Is Daniel J. Hickey, Jr. the "Bernie Madoff" of New York Workers Compensation?
That's my opinion as quoted recently in an excellent piece of investigative journalism by Mary Beth Pfeiffer of the Poughkeepsie Journal. Why label him the "Bernie Madoff" of NY Workers' Comp? As a result of his…