Appellate Division affirmed the workers’ compensation judge’s orders, granting the petitioner’s application for Temporary Total Disability benefits and denying respondent’s Request for Reconsideration.

The petitioner was injured in 2018 and resolved her case for 25% partial-total disability in 2021. In 2018, she had returned to work for Complete Care as a certified nursing assistant and, in 2019, as a home health aide for Interim Agency. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp, Vol. 28, No.

Superior Court affirms decision that claimant failed to prove she contracted COVID-19 at work, but does not reach issue of whether COVID-19 qualifies as an occupational disease for a nurse who worked in the “COVID wing” of a hospital.

Ms. Hudson worked as a front-line nurse for the employer on its COVID-19 floor in the Fall of 2020. She contracted COVID at some point in October 2020 and was hospitalized on October 21, 2020. Her sons contracted the virus at the same time. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp, Vol. 28, No.

Failure to provide requisite statutorily required medical assignment-of-benefits form results in dismissal of New York no-fault arbitration matter.

We successfully defended and submitted post-hearing arguments and secured dismissal of a New York no-fault arbitration matter. The applicant, a major medical provider, filed an arbitration matter in the amount of $361,601.62, claiming our client owed it for the claimant’s unpaid medical bills following a major motor vehicle accident. The claimant had been involved in the motor vehicle accident and sought payment for medical treatment for a series of treatments rendered while hospitalized, post-accident.

Successfully secured full dismissal of a New York no-fault litigation matter.

The plaintiff, a major medical provider, filed suit in Suffolk County’s 3rd District Court in the total amount of $14,999.99, claiming our insurance company client owed it for the claimant’s unpaid medical billing. The claimant was involved in a motor vehicle accident and sought payment for medical treatment. Counsel for the medical provider argued that, since the billing was never paid by the insurer, it was due in full—despite the same matter having been successfully argued and won in arbitration in June of 2021.