01 / Spine
Back & Neck Injuries
Most-common, most-litigated injury type in workers' comp. Non-schedule rules apply; permanency is measured as loss of wage-earning capacity. The cap weeks and your AWW dictate the value.
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Common work injuries,
by body part.
Most workers' comp cases turn on what was injured and how badly — because that determines whether you're looking at a Schedule Loss of Use award, a non-schedule classification, or something in between. Pick your injury for the specifics.
02 / Upper Extremity
Shoulder Injuries
Schedule Loss of Use territory. 312 weeks max for the arm. Range-of-motion testing, surgical history, and impairment ratings drive the math — and the math is precise.
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03 / Lower Extremity
Knee Injuries
SLU schedule — 288 weeks for the leg, 205 for the foot. Hardware, replacements, and consequential injuries to the contralateral leg or hip drive value.
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04 / Cumulative
Repetitive Stress Injuries
Occupational-disease framework, separate filing deadlines, and the AWW and date-of-injury arguments are decisive. Most-undervalued claim type by carriers.
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05 / Mental Injury
PTSD & Mental Injury
Transformed by the January 2025 statutory expansion. Every NY worker — not just first responders — can now file for mental injury caused by extraordinary work-related stress. Carriers are still defending these aggressively; the medical record is everything.
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