Stressing that in New York, an occupational disease is one "resulting from the nature of employment and contracted therein [see N.Y. Workers' Comp. Law § 2[15]], and not from environmental conditions at the workplace , a state appellate court reversed...
A worker hired to monitor the truck traffic hauling debris from the site of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center was not a participant in the “rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations” at the World Trade Center site and, accordingly, could not qualify...
A law enforcement officer from the City of Hornell (N.Y.) Police Department, who was sent to New York City for a six-day period following the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and who was engaged there in “perimeter containment”...
A New York appellate court affirmed a decision of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that denied a corporate bond trader’s application for an award of reduced earnings that he claimed were caused by a PTSD condition brought about by the September...
By Thomas A. Robinson Last week, while an angry gal named Irene was making her way up the Atlantic coast toward Gotham, I happened to get out of North Carolina ahead of the storm to spend a few days (August 25-26) in lower Manhattan. During one excursion there...
Larson's Advisory Board member Rebecca A. Shafer pays tribute to her colleagues killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Read it .
Larson's Spotlight on 9/11 Claim, Average Weekly Wage, Pain and Permanent Total Disability, Intentional Tort Claim, and Bad Faith. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's...