Sometimes, the Social Security Disability Administration will try to cut your benefits under a "Continuing Disability Review," or "CDR." If this happens, all is far from lost. You can elect to fight a decision to cut your benefits. You can also elect to keep getting...
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ONE MILLION DOLLARS PLUS IN SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS!
I am proud to announce that last year we recovered more than one million dollars in Social Security Disability benefits for our clients. We won those benefits in a variety of ways: some on written applications, some by argument at Social Security Disability...
HARD HATS, CONSTRUCTION, DEMOLITION & SCAFFOLD WORKERS DESERVE BETTER
As this New York Post article will show, construction, demolition, and scaffold workers continue to be forced to work in unsafe conditions for illegally low wages. New York's men and women in construction risk their lives and health on behalf of the city's...
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFIT CHANGES
If you are on Social Security Disability benefits or are about to file for Social Security Disability benefits because you are disabled, and too disabled for all but a minimum of gainful employment, you need to know that the Social Security Administration will be...
HOW TO NOTIFY YOUR EMPLOYER OF AN ACCIDENT
Many working men and women in New York believe that Workers' Compensation is an automatic benefit. They become understandably frustrated when that proves not to be true, and they are forced to wait for a weekly benefit check and for proper medical treatment.Just as an...
CONSTRUCTION WORKER TRAINING BILL FOR SAFETY
I am sharing this article which is of importance to all New Yorkers, but especially to my clients and friends who are construction workers, and who work with scaffolds, and doing asbestos removal, and doing demolition. As the article states, workplace accidents keep...
ANOTHER DEVASTATING CONSTRUCTION SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT!
My heart goes out to these workers and their families--but make no mistake, if there were safety violations at this construction site involving the scaffolding, or any other workplace safety violation, the contractor responsible should find no sympathy at all either...
Important Article on Construction Demolition Scaffold Safety
Quiero compartir con mis clientes que trabajan en construcción, demolición y remoción de asbesto, y con mis amigos, este excelente artículo de Gary LaBarbera, Presidente del Concilio de Oficios de Edificios y Construcción. Dicen que no tenemos un regalo más grande que...
An Important Article for Construction, Demolition, Scaffold Workers
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/I want to share with my clients who are construction, demolition, and asbestos removal workers, and with my friends, this excellent article by Gary LaBarbera, President of the Building and Construction Trades Council. They say we...
MAJOR PERSONAL INJURY VICTORIES
I'm very proud to report that in September alone we settled nearly FIVE MILLION DOLLARS in personaly injury/third party law suits. And there is more to come!On a construction site, a floor collapsed. On stairs in a building, a stair opening left a hole...