When construction teams are working, it’s very important that each and every person has the right personal protective equipment (PPE). If they don’t for some reason, then they could be badly hurt by falling, getting cut or burned or suffering some other kind of...
Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Won For Injured New Yorkers
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Ariella Herman Earns Distinguished Advocate for Workers’ Compensation 2020 Award
New York, New York, September 29, 2020 — Ariella Herman with Katz, Leidman, Freund & Herman has been nominated and approved for selection as a 2020 Distinguished Advocate for Workers’ Compensation. This award is by invitation only and bestowed to lawyers that have...
Sharps injuries are a serious risk for medical workers
Nurses, doctors, phlebotomists and others who work around sharps in a hospital or any other medical environment must ensure that they’re always following the proper safety protocol for this task. There’s a risk that they will be stuck if they aren’t safe and if they...
The symptoms of toxic exposure
If you have worked in a factory, a construction site, in a mine or in another high-risk workplace, you may have been exposed to toxic chemicals at some point in your career. Whether this exposure was recently or several decades ago, the effect of the exposure could...
When can you bring a lawsuit after a workplace injury?
Most of the time, when someone gets hurt on the job, they get benefits through workers' compensation. However, there are situations in which it may be possible for the victim of a workplace injury to bring a civil lawsuit against their employer or a third party for...
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...
Discrimination & the Americans with Disabilities Act
If you were injured in a workplace accident or if you are suffering from an occupational disease, you may be worried about filing a workers’ compensation claim. You may be afraid that if you file a claim, you would anger your employer and lose your job. We wanted to...
Workers’ Compensation & Third Party Liability
In New York when most workers are injured in a workplace accident, they are covered by their employer’s workers’ compensation insurance. The workers’ compensation system is a no-fault system, which means that injured workers can seek benefits regardless of their own...
Can I Collect Workers’ Comp & SSDI?
Were you injured in a workplace accident or are you suffering from an occupational disease? If so, you’ll soon learn that while workers’ compensation benefits are essential to injured workers, they do not equal 100% of an employee’s wages. According to the New York...
Workplace Violence & Workers’ Compensation
Most workers are familiar with workers’ compensation; they understand that if they are injured in an accident while working, that they can file a workers’ compensation claim. However, one issue that’s less talked about is workplace violence. According to...