New York Disability Lawyer & Attorney : Turley, Redmond & Rosasco : Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Nassau, Suffolk, Bronx, Staten Island

In a huge victory for Ground Zero workers, federal judge Alvin Hellerstein issued a 99 page ruling yesterday giving these heroes the opportunity to sue the City of New York, private contractors and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for their 9/11 related illnesses.

In the last few months, after the passage of the new 9/11 workers' compensation law,  our workers' compensation attorneys have been deluged with calls from Ground Zero workers with various illness's they believe are related to exposure to toxins at Ground Zero.  In addition to new workers' comp claims, they may now also be entitled to have an additional lawsuit against the City of New York for failing to warn them of the dangerous and sometimes deadly conditions at the former World Trade Center site.  Turley, Redmond & Rosasco is working with one of the "lead counsels" in New York City bringing this important law suit.

The most affected group of workers are police, firefighters, EMS, sanitation workers, transportation workersconstruction workers, National Guardsmen and other first responders.  The most common illness's workers' comp lawyers see among these groups include asthma, reactive airway disease, interstitial lung disease and the following cancers: lung cancer, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer, bladder cancer, colon cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma.  

If you or a family member believe your illness is related to working or volunteering at Ground Zero, please feel free to contact Troy Rosasco toll free at 1-877-NY-DBLAW, ext 123 to discuss your legal options. 

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Our good friends at the New York Committee for Occupational Health (NYCOSH) recently put out an excellent fact sheet on the new 9/11 workers' compensation benefits for rescue workers and first responders.  All New York workers' compensation lawyers should distribute this fact sheet to their eligible clients and medical providers.   Please print this sheet out and pass the word.  The  new business and labor coalition in New York,  BALCONY , is doing a great job disseminating this information.  Keep up the great work BALCONY!

In addition, here's the link to the New York State Workers' Compensation Board's new Registration Form, WTC-12.  All employees and/or volunteers who participated in rescue, recovery or cleanup operations at the World Trade Center Site or other "qualifying sites" must file this form with the Workers Compensation Board no later than August 14, 2007.  This includes those participants who are not currently sick.  Failure to do so may preclude you from making a workers' compensation claim in the future.  Therefore, if you were one of the  heroes at Ground Zero, protect yourself and your family and do it now!  Feel free to call us toll free with any questions at 1-877-NY-DBLAW.

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I am humbled to have been recently elected by my colleagues to be their Second Circuit Court of Appeals representative on the NOSSCR Board of Directors.  I look forward to seeing many of them at our upcoming national disability lawyer conference in Phoenix, Arizona and representing the interests of all Social Security Disability claimants.  Remember - President  Bush still wants to privatize Social Security in his last two years in office.  We must prevent this ill-conceived idea.

For those of you who have never attended a NOSSCR conference, I strongly recommend that you do.  Not only are the Continuing Legal Education seminars of the highest quality, but the opportunity to meet and learn from some of the sharpest disability attorneys in the US is a great asset.  In fact, I am sure I would not have developed our ERISA and professional long term disability practice had it not been for attending an eye opening seminar given by California long term disability lawyer legend, Frank Darras, at a prior NOSSCR conference

Led by Executive Director Nancy Shor, NOSSCR is the  largest disability lawyer association in the United States and is well known to our representatives in Washington, DC for protecting the rights of Social Security Disability claimants.  As part of the NOSSCR leadership team, I am committed to preserving social security disability (SSD) and supplemental security income (SSI) benefits for all individuals with disability claims.    

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