Losing your job while you're on workers' compensation can be a stressful and confusing experience. You might wonder how it will impact your benefits, your ability to continue receiving medical care, or even your right to future compensation. In New York, workers'...
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Can I Get Another Job While on Workers’ Comp in NY?
If you're currently receiving workers' compensation benefits in New York due to a job-related injury or illness, you might be wondering if you're allowed to take up another job during this period. This is a common question with a somewhat complex answer. Let's dive...
Can Workers Compensation Stop Payments Without Notice?
If an employer wishes to stop workers' compensation benefits, they must file a Notice of Suspension to you. In order to do this, they must first file a petition with the New York Workers' Compensation Board to modify or end your existing benefits. Once they do, you...
How to Maximize Your New York Workers’ Compensation Settlement
You're not being greedy when you seek to maximize a workers' compensation settlement. Often, you'll have to make that money last a long time while you try to either attain disability benefits or get yourself retrained for a new job. No, you're being smart when you...
Does New York Workers’ Compensation Cover Ambulance Costs?
There have been a lot of stories in recent years about people who did not want an ambulance called to an emergency injury situation because they couldn't afford the costs. 79% of the time, the ambulance doesn't take your insurance, so contacting an ambulance is often...
How Can Construction Companies Prevent Electrocution Accidents?
Working in construction can be a dangerous occupation, but your employer and the construction company do have an obligation to protect employees and contractors as much as possible. Electrocution accidents can result in catastrophic injuries. According to the CDC, the...
Does Your Workers’ Comp Claim Preclude a Personal Injury Suit?
Even if you are careful and wear appropriate protective gear, you never can eliminate your chances of suffering a life-altering injury at work. Indeed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 2 million Americans required emergency medical...
A Primer on COVID Workers’ Comp Claims for Frontline Workers
New Yorkers who are on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19 and essential workers come into regular contact with this disease. What happens if they become ill? Will workers’ compensation benefits cover their illness? Are coronavirus and COVID-19 classified...
Workers’ Comp Rights for Illness
Workers in certain jobs in New York City, such as first responders and workers engaged in health care, transit and deliveries are facing increased risks of contracting illnesses such as the one that has presented countries across the world with an unprecedented...
Workers’ Compensation & Seeking Work
When someone is partially-disabled and receiving workers’ compensation benefits, there comes a point in time where they are expected to seek gainful employment that accommodates their medical restrictions – they are not supposed to seek work that they can’t do. The...