Turley, Redmond, Rosasco & Rosasco, LLP would like to urge you to preserve your right to New York worker’s compensation benefits if you participated in the rescue, recovery and clean-up of the World Trade Center from 9/11/2001 through 9/12/ 2002. File a WTC-12 form (www.wcb.ny.gov/WTC12) with the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board by 9/11/14…. Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Ground Zero Workers Compensation
9/11 Workers’ Compensation Registration Re-opens: Governor Cuomo Signs Bill
Posted in NY Workers Compensation Claims, Zadroga 9/11 Compensation Fund ClaimsLast week Governor Cuomo signed an important new bill that re-opened 911 workers’ compensation registration and disability pensions for Ground Zero workers. The new registration deadline is set for September 11, 2014, but re-opens registration and filing for previously denied claims. Therefore, any 9/11 worker who was previously denied workers’ compensation because they failed to register… Continue Reading
New Law Permits 9/11 Ground Zero Workers to Sue NYC according to Lawyer Rosasco
Posted in Construction Accidents, Health Info, NY Workers Compensation Claims, Zadroga 9/11 Compensation Fund ClaimsGreat legal news for injured and ill 9/11 rescue and recovery workers! In an article published in Newsday today, Governor David Paterson has just signed a new law effective September 16, 2009 allowing workers who missed lawsuit filing deadlines to sue New York City for negligence for telling workers that the air at Ground Zero was… Continue Reading
Remembering 9/11: Ground Zero Ironworker Picurro Still Fighting for Life
Posted in Zadroga 9/11 Compensation Fund ClaimsOn the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it seems appropriate that we all recognize that the health impacts on both victims and Ground Zero rescue workers continue in many cases to increase, not decrease. A colleague forwarded me this excellent video from this morning’s Democracy Now program regarding Ground Zero and the case of rescue worker Joe Picurro. … Continue Reading