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… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Disability Pensions
Subscribe to Disability Pensions RSS FeedNEW 9/11 Workers’ Comp Benefits Fact Sheet Available
Posted in Disability Pensions, Labor News, NY Workers Compensation ClaimsOur 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… Continue Reading
Rosasco Elected to National Disability Attorney Association
Posted in Disability Pensions, Long Term Disability / ERISA, Social Security DisabilityI 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… Continue Reading
Governor Pataki Signs New York 9/11 Workers’ Comp Bill
Posted in Disability Pensions, Health Info, NY Workers Compensation ClaimsAfter a long struggle and much legislative effort by the New York Workers’ Compensation Alliance and the New York State AFL-CIO, Governor Pataki signed the 9/11 Rescue and First Responders Workers’ Compensation bill yesterday at the foot of the former World Trade Center site. In addition to the Governor, both Sheldon Silver, Joe Bruno and their… Continue Reading
New York Withdraws Opinion on Discretionary Clauses in ERISA Disability Income Insurance Claims
Posted in Disability Pensions, Long Term Disability / ERISA, Social Security DisabilityIn April of this year, New York joined the growing list of states banning discretionary clauses in ERISA long term disability policies, much to the benefit of disabled workers. Unfortunately, the New York State Insurance Department recently rescinded it’s prior advisory letter in favor of proceeding with formal rule making in the future. While it is clear… Continue Reading
New York Outlaws “Discretionary Clauses” in ERISA Long Term Disability Policies
Posted in Disability Pensions, Long Term Disability / ERISA, Social Security DisabilityNew York ERISA long term disability claimants just received a big assist from New York State Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills . Following the lead of California’s Insurance Department, Superintendent Mills issued 2006 Circular Letter # 8 invalidating all “discretionary clauses” in existing group long term disability policies. All insurance companies must comply by May 31,… Continue Reading
ERISA / Long Term Disability Claim Lawyer Conference
Posted in Disability Pensions, Firm News & Events, Long Term Disability / ERISA, Social Security DisabilityWith all the talk of workers’ compensation reform in New York lately, some of you may have thought that we forgot about the long term disability and social security disability claim side of our practice. Anything but! On February 23th and 24th, I attended ACI���s Litigating Long Term Disability Claims conference in Coconut Grove, Florida…. Continue Reading
9/11 First Responders Hurt by Pataki Workers Comp Bill
Posted in Disability Pensions, Labor News, NY Workers Compensation ClaimsGov. Pataki’s new workers’ compensation “reform” bill will be a disaster for the heroes of 9/11 - the “first responders”. As recently detailed in an excellent Newsday article, first responders are getting sicker every day, and many are now dying from their exposure to toxins at Ground Zero. As I have stated before, the Pataki… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Takes Away Social Security Disability from Poor Students
Posted in Disability Pensions, Long Term Disability / ERISA, Social Security DisabilityIn one of her farewell decisions as a Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor ruled for a unanimous Supreme Court yesterday that the federal government can collect delinquent student loans by withholding a claimant’s Social Security Disability benefits. The full decision in Lockhart v. United States is here. While legally sound, the practical effect on… Continue Reading
Disability Law Firm Names David Tobias and Craig Rosasco New Partners
Posted in Disability Pensions, Firm News & Events, NY Workers Compensation Claims, Social Security DisabilityThe Full Service New York Disability Law Firm of Turley, Redmond & Rosasco, LLP is pleased to announce that David Tobias and Craig Rosasco have been named partners in the firm. David Tobias is a graduate of Hofstra Law School and has been Supervisor of the firm���s Social Security Disability Department for the past five… Continue Reading
Bush Social Security Plan Defeat
Posted in Disability Pensions, Social Security DisabilityHe said it - not me! In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, ongoing American casualties in Iraq, and vicious attacks from the “Far Right” for his most recent pick of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, it appears that the President is giving up on his Social Security privatization plan. For those of us who… Continue Reading
“New Approach” to Social Security Disability Claims
Posted in Disability Pensions, Social Security DisabilityWhile I was on vacation last week, New York disability attorneys had a lot of interesting disability law developments to digest. I will try to catch everyone up on the most important developments over the course of the week, but I will start with the most important: the New Social Security Approach to Disability Determination… Continue Reading
Pataki Signs 9/11 New York Disability Pension Law
Posted in Disability Pensions, NY Workers Compensation ClaimsIn a significant win for the rescue and recovery heroes of 9/11 and New York’s municipal unions, last week Gov. George Pataki finally signed the 75% disability pension bill for workers who become ill as a result of working at Ground Zero. Municipal employees, mostly police and firemen, who worked more than 40 hours at… Continue Reading
Bush Social Security Plan Dead?
Posted in Disability Pensions, Social Security DisabilityI wouldn���t bet on it. Despite dwindling support in his own party and the public in general, the President has shown in the past that he is a stubborn and resilent fighter for his policies. Rather than folding up shop and licking his wounds, he has announced a new multi-state push to convince the American… Continue Reading