New York Workers' Compensation Blog
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
11-Jun-2019
There are two categories of workers’ compensation claims: 1) claims filed because of injuries sustained in workplace accidents, and 2) claims for occupational diseases. The New York Workers’ Compensation Board defines an occupational ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
15-May-2019
Metallic mercury is extremely toxic. As a potent neurotoxin, even very small amounts can damage a worker’s health. At room temperature, mercury is liquid and it evaporates easily. What does this mean for workers? It means they can be exposed to ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
1-May-2019
Some people have a misunderstanding about workers’ compensation benefits; they assume that like Social Security Disability (SSDI), workers’ compensation covers many types of disabilities, but that is not the case. Workers’ ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
18-Apr-2019
When someone becomes disabled due to a work-related injury or occupational disease, the hope and plan is that someday sooner than later, they’ll heal enough that they can return to work. And as injured workers do go through the healing and ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
4-Apr-2019
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 ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
19-Mar-2019
If you are considering filing a workers’ compensation claim on Long Island, in New York City, or anywhere else in the state, you probably have a lot of questions. To help you better understand how workers’ compensation works, here is a ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
5-Mar-2019
It’s no surprise that a workplace injury or occupational disease, like one that is life-threatening, can have a significant emotional impact on a worker. For example, losing an arm or a leg in an industrial accident, or getting terminal lung ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
20-Feb-2019
When we think of “dangerous jobs,” our minds may automatically go to police officers, firemen, loggers, and fishermen, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that a number of jobs are dangerous because of what they do to the ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
6-Feb-2019
The ability to hear should not be underestimated. Even though it’s not as serious as going blind, it still leads to a loss of enjoyment and quality of life. Going deaf for example, due to one’s job can mean not hearing your child or ...
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Posted By Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman
22-Jan-2019
When it comes to workers’ compensation claims, there are two categories: 1) accidental injuries, and 2) occupational diseases. For the purpose of this article, we are going to be discusses occupational diseases and how they factor into the ...
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