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The New York Disability Law Blog

Information, help and support for disabled individuals with long term disability, social security disability and workers' compensation claims.
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US Supreme Court Rules in MetLife v. Glenn: Major Impact on ERISA Long Term Disability Claims Around Country

Posted on June 19, 2008
The decision all ERISA long term disability attorneys around the country have been waiting for, Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Glenn, 554 U.S. ____ (2008) , finally came down from the U.S. Supreme Court this morning . Click here for the full decision...

NY Disability Attorney to Attend American Confernce Institute Conference on Litigating Long Term Disability Insurance Claims

Posted on June 10, 2008
I'm off to Boston this week to attend the premier LTD Litigation conference in the country. See the conference schedule here for some of the cutting edge ERISA and medical issues we will be discussing. Some of the best long term disability lawyers in the country will be speaking on trial techniques, mediation of claims and recent case law...

New York Disability Lawyer Troy Rosasco Off to Miami NOSSCR Social Security Law Conference

Posted on June 02, 2008
I'm off to Miami Beach (yes - a conference in Miami in June!) tomorrow for the semi-annual NOSSCR Social Security Disability Law conference through Friday. In between my responsibilities representing the Second Circuit on the Board of Directors of NOSSCR, I plan to take advantage of some of the great seminars NOSSCR always offers...

Nassau County Workers Compensation Lawyer: Newsday Reports on Permanent Partial Disability Lump Sum Settlements

Posted on April 08, 2008
There are literally thousands of former Nassau County workers who are currently receiving lifetime workers' compensation payments (pensions) for life due to on- the- job injuries. I know - I have represented a large number of these unfortunate individuals...

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New York Disability Lawyer Wins Appeal in Major Wall Street Broker Case Against Guardian

Posted on February 08, 2008
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is right around the corner from our Wall Street office. Last July, a very successful Commodity Broker called our office for legal representation in his appeal of a denial of his ERISA long term disability claim against The Guardian Insurance Company...

Workers' Compensation Attorney Troy Rosasco Interviewed for ABC News Story on Undocumented Worker Construction Accident Deaths

Posted on January 16, 2008
ABC News published an important article today highlighting the sharp rise in immigrant worker deaths on construction sites in the New York City area. This problem, which I addressed in a prior post recently, is reaching epidemic proportions...

CBS News Special Report on Social Security Disability Claim Backlog

Posted on January 15, 2008
Last night the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric unveiled the first of two special reports on the Social Security Disability claim backlog. My friend and fellow Social Security Disability lawyer, John Hogan, was interviewed and spoke of the 2 1/2 year wait for a hearing in the Atlanta area! When you see the disabled claimant's profiled in this report, you will realize how cruel and unacceptable such waits are...

Happy 2008 from New York Disability Attorneys - Turley, Redmond & Rosasco

Posted on December 31, 2007
Happy New Year to all the readers of the New York Disability Law Blog! Over the course of 2007, we are pleased to report that our firm has once again helped thousands of injured and disabled claimants successfully win the benefits they deserve.Our blog has tried to provide timely and helpful information to all those struggling with a variety of disability claims, including long term disability insurance claims, Social Security disability claims, workers' compensation claims and VA disability claims...

Merry Christmas to All from New York Disability Lawyers!

Posted on December 25, 2007
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy..." - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843). At this festive time of year, when so many of us have more worldly goods than we truly need, let us not forget those among us who are not working due to accidents or disease...

New York Times Reports on Social Security Disability Claim Crisis

Posted on December 11, 2007
Yesterday's front cover of the NY Times had an article detailing the long delays in the Social Security Disability claim process. Much of the backlog is the result of Congress failing to adequately fund a Social Security disability claim system which is now facing more claims due to the aging of the "baby boomer" generation...

NY Disability Attorney Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Verizon for Potential Cancer Victims

Posted on November 19, 2007
As detailed in Newsday today, Mitchell Breit of the national class action law firm of Whatley, Drake & Kallas and the disability law firm of Turley, Redmond & Rosasco have filed a "medical monitoring" class action lawsuit against Verizon in New York Supreme Court, County of Brooklyn, for workers who previously worked at the former Sylvania nuclear fuel rod plant in Hicksville, Long Island...

Rosasco Attends Veterans Disability Attorney Conference in DC

Posted on November 07, 2007
As an Air Force veteran myself, it was reassuring to know that so many talented veteran disability claim lawyers were in attendance at the National Organization of Veterans' Attorneys (NOVA) conference last week in Washington, DC...

Turley, Redmond & Rosasco Partner Endorsed by Newsday for Suffolk County Legislature

Posted on October 29, 2007
Turley, Redmond & Rosasco founding partner William "Bill" Turley was endorsed today by Newsday as Smithtown's next representative in the Suffolk County Legislature. Bill, who has been practicing workers' compensation and disability claim law on Long Island for over 20 years, impressed the Newsday staff with his innovative ideas on clean energy and immigration...

Workers' Compensation Construction Accident Deaths Soar in NYC

Posted on October 23, 2007
Being a construction worker in New York City is becoming more deadly, according to new reports from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Amid a building boom in New York, construction worker accident related deaths are up 87% since 2005. As the NY Times reported earlier this year on construction deaths, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has already taken some positive health and safety inspection measures to stem work related scaffold and ladder accidents in New York City...

Rosasco to Attend National Social Security Disability Attorney Conference in St. Louis

Posted on October 16, 2007
I'm off to St. Louis to attend the NOSSCR conference for the next few days. In between my Board of Directors meetings, I'll be sharpening my Social Security disability lawyer skills at some of the great seminars NOSSCR always offers. See you on the blog next week...

Disability Lawyer Volunteers at Long Island MS Society "Meet the Attorney" Night

Posted on October 10, 2007
Thanks to Jane Reilly and all those at the Long Island, New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for inviting me to participate at their annual free "Meet the Attorney" night last week at the Melville headquarters. I had a private meeting with a lovely woman struggling with MS to discuss both her ERISA long term disability claim with Unum, and her pending Social Security Disability claim...

New Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Will Help Long Term Disability Claims

Posted on September 24, 2007
It's all in your head! You do not have "objective medical evidence" of a disabling condition! Your symptoms are "self reported" and not supported by "testing"! Any chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) sufferer whose disability claim has been denied by either Social Security or an LTD insurance company has seen these infuriating phrases before...

The Forgotten 9/11 Ground Zero Heroes

Posted on September 11, 2007
Marie Cocco of the Washington Post has a great column today profiling one of our clients, Jeanmarie DeBiase, the widow of 9/11 hero Mark DeBiase. While sick police officers and firefighters have received much deserved attention, workers in a variety of occupations, without whom the Ground Zero clean-up could not have been possible, have not received the same level of press...

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