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

It was my pleasure to give a seminar recently to volunteer firefighters at the Bellmore Fire District on Long Island about their rights to workers' compensation (even as volunteers) under the new 9/11 Rescue Workers' Law.   Andrew Carboy and Beth Jablon of Sullivan, Papain, Block, McGrath & Cannavo also gave an excellent presentation on the rights of the volunteer firefighters to sue the City of New York if they worked at Ground Zero and later develop cancer or breathing problems.  For instance, I met one firefighter who developed tongue cancer after working at Ground Zero but had never touched a cigarette in his life.  Unfortunately, such stories are becoming more and more common these days as I field these unfortunate callers on almost a daily basis.

The firehouse was packed and we handed out many Workers' Compensation Ground Zero registration forms and many firefighters completed the forms right then and there.  I thank both Andy Carboy and Joe Pusateri, Esq. for asking me to assist with this presentation.   As of today,  there are only 189 days left to register with the Workers' Compensation Board.  Even if you are not ill now, please download this form today and send it to the New York Workers' Compensation Board ASAP.  It could be a free disability or life insurance policy for your family.   If you have questions about how to fill out  the form, do not hesitate to call our office at 1-877-NY-DBLAW.  

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Welcome to the newly designed New York Disability Law Blog!  As you will notice, I changed the official title of the blog from "The Disabled Worker Law Blog" to the  more informational "New York Disability Law Blog".  This is in keeping with the blog's purpose of providing useful information and insight regarding disability claims to fellow attorneys and the general public. 

To this end, I am excited to announce the creation of the blog's "Disability Law Library" which will be continually added to and updated.  I hope that this will eventually become the first place attorneys and claimant's turn to when researching disability claims and legal issues.  Still in it's formative stages, the library will have sections on long term disability and ERISA claims, Social Security  disability, New York workers' compensation, civil service disability pensions, scaffold /ladder /construction site lawsuits and a new section on the unfortunate expanding area of veterans' disability claims.

In addition, in 2007 we hope to do a better job collaborating with fellow bloggers such as Jonathan Ginsberg and his excellent Social Security Disability Radio Blog.  Please feel free to comment about the new design and let me know how the New York Disability Law Blog can better serve your needs.  Talk to you soon.

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Well, my seven year old son didn't get  "an official Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot, range-model air rifle with a compass in the stock" this Christmas, but he now has enough "weapons of mass destruction"  to justify Dick Cheney's armed search of our property (I better duck!)   My daughter is content with her yo-yo and Rubik's Cube.  Chock it up to testosterone!

All of us at the New York Disability Lawyer Blog and Turley, Redmond & Rosasco wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and Holiday Season!  See you in the New Year!

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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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