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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 »
Major Win Alert: Jones Jones Associate Secures Disallowment in Assault Case
Jones Jones LLC congratulates Associate Kevin Moy and his team for successfully arguing before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board that a controverted assault claim should be disallowed. In this 2023 case, the claimant alleged they were assaulted by their supervisor and injured their left shoulder. The claimant denied prior injuries, but received… Read More »
Major Win Alert: Jones Jones Associate Completes Successful Controverted Construction Case
Please join Jones Jones in congratulating Associate Kevin Moy and his team on their successful effort to disallow a controverted construction claim before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board. In this case the claimant alleged they were working as a carpenter for the client’s insured when they injured their neck, back, right shoulder… Read More »
Major Win Alert: Jones Jones Associate and Team Complete Successful Appeal
Please join us in congratulating Jones Jones LLC Associate Kevin Moy and his team on completing a successful appeal before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board. The claimant in this construction case incurred an injury to their left elbow in 2012 while pulling a heavy pipe. In 2022, the claimant was examined by… Read More »
Jones Jones Construction Practice: Guidance on NYS WC C-3 and employer identification
The Jones Jones construction team is pleased to share that to resolve confusion around Employee Claims (Form C-3) and reduce delays in cases where the identity of the proper employer or insurance payer is not immediately known, the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (the Board) has created a new process to be used when… Read More »
New York State Workers’ Compensation Board Expands Desk Review for Section 32 Waiver Agreements
In May, 2024 the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (the Board) issued a Subject Number (Subject Number 046-1683 Additional Criteria for Section 32 Waiver Agreements Reviewed Without a Hearing) which announced that beginning on July 1, 2024 the Board would use the desk review process to administratively review all Section 32 waiver agreements of… Read More »
Major Win Alert: Jones Jones Secures Disallowance of NY Claim with NJ Policy Argument
Jones Jones LLC congratulates Associates Samantha Sharpe, Diandra Archbald and Diane Mandleur, and their team on securing a dismissal of a New York insurance claim under a New Jersey insurance policy. In this case, the claimant alleged that while working for a car transport company, located in Englewood, NJ, they were involved in a… Read More »