If you work at a construction site, you know the dangers that an accident can pose. However, your job can impact your health in more subtle ways, and the occupational diseases that your everyday tasks can cause are no less worthy of attention. What hazards in the...
Workers’ compensation benefits can be one of the most important resources injured workers have available to them as they face the challenges associated with the aftermath of a workplace injury. Workers’ compensation benefits are available to workers injured in New...
Most Long Island residents understand that the job of an Emergency Medical Technician can be very dangerous. EMTs are often required to accept risky conditions such as a fire or building collapse to do their work. Another hazard of an EMT’s job is the need to travel...
While workers’ compensation is generally thought of in terms of a single work accident or even repetitive stress injuries, employees can suffer serious conditions due to toxic exposure or other workplace hazards. Even with advanced safety training and the use of...
For the past several years (indeed, some in New York may even argue decades), one of the main incentives drawing people into the workforce was the promise of employment benefits. One of the chief among these is workers' compensation (as employees want the security...
When you think of workers’ compensation, you often imagine situations when a worker has tripped in the walk-in freezer or suffered a serious cut during dinner preparation. For a lot of workers, workers’ compensation seems like the solution for injuries suffered in...
Workplace injuries occur far more often than many people realize. The state’s Workers’ Compensation Board has assembled about 170,000 claims each of the past four years, which is a significant number. We don’t know the exact circumstances of each of these claims, such...