The workers' compensation assessment rate for New York has been lowered for 2025, resulting in an estimated $191 million in potential savings for employers, according to state officials. The ...

New York's highest court has expanded COVID-19 workers' compensation coverage, making it easier for workers to prove ...

Impact of New NYS Workers’ Compensation Work-Related Stress Relief on Discrimination Claims Andrew Lieb discusses how New York State’s expansion of workers' compensation benefits, (effective 1/1/25), ...

New York State employers, in a survey released by The Business Council of New York on April 19, overwhelmingly agree their workers’ compensation costs have “increased in the last five years” and those ...

The most recent amendment to New York’s Workers’ Compensation Law, which went into effect on January 1, 2025, permits any employee to seek workers’ compensation benefits when they experience a “mental ...

A new report by the New York State Comptroller’s Office shows that the state lags behind others when it comes to cash payouts for several social safety net programs meant to help unemployed or injured ...

A New York appellate panel has reinstated a former Suffolk County Water Authority worker’s carpal tunnel claim, finding the ...

In a 4-3 split, the Court of Appeals ruled that mental anguish and PTSD that a group of Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...