For many, receiving regular chiropractic treatment is essential to managing chronic pain.  When the Workers Compensation Board previously made the decision to significantly  limit the amount of chiropractic treatment one is entitled to, many were alarmed.  Recently, however, the Medical Treatment Guidelines have been amended to allow for chronic pain to be treated more appropriately. […]

Workers’ Compensation Law Section 114a(1) may disqualify a claimant from receiving workers’ compensation benefits when he or she knowingly makes a false statement or representation as to a material fact for the purpose of obtaining such benefits. The “false statement or representation” can come in many forms.  The most blatant involves a claimant who denies, […]

My firm receives many inquires from claimants currently on New York State Workers’ Compensation who want to move out of state or take a job with a different employer. Moving out of state or changing employers will have no effect on your legal rights to continue to collect New York State Workers’ Compensation benefits.  The […]

After a Section 32 settlement has been negotiated and paperwork has been drafted and filed with the New York Workers’ Compensation Board, a hearing will be scheduled. Presiding at your settlement hearing will be a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge who will review your paperwork and ask you questions in order to confirm that you fully […]

Workers’ Compensation: It’s A Dirty Business Insurance Investigators If you have a pending claim for workers’ compensation benefits in New York and notice a suspicious vehicle in your neighborhood, you’re not alone.  After all, the insurance carrier is concerned about one thing, their bottom line.  The use of insurance investigators has become more and more […]