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Rosasco Response to Newsday Editorial on Workers’ Comp Reform

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

NY Disability Attorney Travels to Albany for Senate Workers' Compensation Reform Hearings

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

NY Workers' Comp Lawyer Lectures on Balbuena

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 Workers’ Comp Alliance Position Paper 2006

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

NY Court of Appeals on Workers Comp Carriers' Right to Offset Third Party Recovery

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

New York Workers' Compensation Alliance Exposes "Comp Watch '06

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

NY Workers' Compensation Alliance Launches Website

The New York State Workers’ Compensation Alliance has just launched its new website. As most of you know, the NY Workers’ Compensation Alliance is a group of individuals and organizatio... Continue Reading

9/11 First Responders Hurt by Pataki Workers Comp Bill

Gov. Pataki’s new workers’ compensation “reform” bill will be a disaster for the heroes of 9/11 – the “first responders”. As recently detailed in an excell... Continue Reading

Gov. Pataki's "Deform" Workers' Compensation Bill Language

Click here to read this mean spirited pablum. As usual, the “devil is in the details” when it comes to New York workers’ compensation benefits. I’ll have a more detailed ana... Continue Reading

NY Workers' Compensation "Reform" Agenda Heating Up in 2006

2006 may be shaping up as a year for significant workers’ compensation reform in New York. Yesterday, Governor Pataki introduced his Workers’ Compensation Reform “Budget” Pr... Continue Reading