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Major Win Alert: Jones Jones Settles More than 20 Cases of Claimants with Multiple Claims for Aviation Client
Jones Jones LLC congratulates Supervising Partner Simeon Stamm and team on successfully closing more than 20 cases of claimants with multiple claims for one aviation client throughout 2024. Of the more than 20 claimants, at least 12 had more than five separate cases each. For example, one claimant had 31 claims, dating back to the… Read More »
Increase in Proposed Decisions from The Board
FROM THE DESK OF MANAGING PARTNER SARAH THOMAS Dear Valued Clients, Jones Jones is aware that with the most recent updates from the New York Workers’ Compensation Board (the Board), including new employee/employer identification guidance, new claim conciliation procedures for additional sites of injury and consequential injuries, and expanded desk reviews for Section… Read More »
Jones Jones Secures More Than $73,000 in Reimbursement for a Carrier as a Statutory Entitled Credit
Jones Jones LLC congratulates Associate Diane C Mandleur for securing a unanimous 2024 New York State Workers’ Compensation Board Panel Decision. This decision resulted in more than $73,000 in awards for the carrier in reimbursement from the Aggregate Trust Fund (ATF) following a 2022 classification of permanent disability in New York. This award comes… Read More »
NY Governor Signs Legislation Allowing New Yorkers to Apply for Workers’ Compensation for Extraordinary Work-Related Stress
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed new legislation allowing any New York worker to file for workers’ compensation for specific types of mental injury connected to extraordinary work-related stress. Bill S.6635/A.5745 expands an existing law enacted in 2017 which allowed for only first responders facing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to file for such benefits…. Read More »
