Before joining Finkelstein, Meirowitz & Eidlisz, I served as Deputy Chief of the Workers' Compensation Division at the New York City Law Department, defending the City in thousands of injured-worker claims. I learned how MTA, DOC, DOE, and other City and authority workers' comp cases actually get processed, contested, and resolved — from the inside. Now I represent those same workers on the other side.
Subway operators, conductors, station agents, track workers, signal specialists, bus operators, and TBTA officers. Self-insured agencies with their own procedures, their own delays, and their own ways of denying claims that other carriers can't get away with.
Non-pedagogical school employees, parks workers, DOT crews, public health staff, and other City employees who are workers'-comp eligible. The City of New York is its own beast — I supervised the attorneys defending these claims for years, and I know the playbook.
Ironworkers, electricians, carpenters, laborers, operating engineers. Workers' comp is the floor, but New York's Scaffold Law (§240) and §241(6) often open up parallel third-party cases that recover several times what comp alone provides.
Correction officers are unusual: they're covered by workers' compensation and by General Municipal Law §207-c salary continuation. The two systems coordinate in ways that go wrong if your attorney doesn't know both. I supervised the City's defense of these claims for years — I know exactly where the leverage is.
Nurses, CNAs, EMTs, and hospital staff have the highest musculoskeletal injury rates in any sector. Lifting injuries, needlestick exposures, workplace violence, and cumulative trauma. The cases are common — but the way carriers defend them isn't.
Emergency Medical Service workers face a different legal framework than FDNY firefighters — different §207-a coverage, different presumptions, different pension structure. The conflation of EMS with fire suppression costs claimants money. I don't conflate them.
Burns, cuts, slips, lifting injuries, late-night assaults. One of the highest-injury sectors with one of the lowest claim filing rates — because the culture treats getting hurt as part of the job. It isn't. And the AWW math when tips are properly counted is materially different.
I represent injured workers across virtually every industry in New York — warehouse, office, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and many more. If you got hurt at work and you're a New York employee, the law works the same. The strategy is what changes by case.
Each page below covers the statutes, presumptions, defenders, pension structure, and case patterns specific to that worker group. Useful if you're in one of these categories — or if your situation is adjacent.
NY civil service disability pensions — ADR, PODR, §207-a, §207-c, Tier disability — and how they coordinate with workers' comp. Former NYC Law Dept Deputy Chief.
FDNY EMTs and paramedics file workers' compensation, not §207-a. A former NYC Deputy Chief explains the difference and what it means for your claim.
MTA workers' compensation attorney for NYCT, MaBSTOA, LIRR, Metro-North, and Bridges & Tunnels employees. Former NYC Deputy Chief. The employer-entity rules matter.
New York court officers and Unified Court System employees — workers' compensation, line-of-duty benefits, and disability retirement. Coordinated representation.
NYC correction officers get §207-c line-of-duty benefits AND can file workers' compensation. The interaction matters — and most officers leave money on the table.
NYC Health + Hospitals (HHC) workers — nurses, physicians, techs, aides, security — workers' compensation attorney. Former NYC Deputy Chief.
NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) workers' compensation attorney. Maintenance, caretakers, supervisors, exterminators, plasterers. Former NYC Deputy Chief.
NYS DOCCS correction officers receive line-of-duty benefits under Correction Law §27 and can also file workers' compensation. The two systems must be coordinated.
Port Authority Police Department officers and PA civilian workers — workers' compensation, line-of-duty benefits, and the bi-state jurisdictional wrinkle.
Rockland County correction officers receive GML §207-c line-of-duty benefits and can file workers' compensation. Coordinated representation across both systems.
Westchester County correction officers receive GML §207-c line-of-duty benefits and can also file workers' compensation. Both systems matter and need coordination.
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