New York Worker's Compensation Lawyers

Worker's compensation is designed to compensate workers injured on the job or afflicted with an occupational disease developed during the course of employment.

Worker's compensation benefits include weekly payments based on a percentage of the employee's average weekly wage. It also covers medical expenses for treatment that is reasonable, necessary and related to the industrial injury and vocational rehabilitation services.

But often payments from worker's compensation isn't enough–especially in matters of serious and catastrophic injuries. Injuries, which can demand large medical and rehabilitation expenses.

Smiley & Smiley, LLP can help you get just compensation for your work-related injury. We can help determine if a negligent third party is at fault and responsible for compensating you for your injuries.

If you have been injured on the job, you may be entitled to bring a lawsuit for substantial damages in addition to any worker's compensation benefits you may receive. Call Smiley & Smiley, LLP at 1.866.SMILEYLAW, toll-free, to begin protecting your rights and advising you right away.

Worker's Compensation Case Results

Examples of Results Obtained by Smiley Law When We Have Recovered Additional Compensation for Clients Receiving Workers' Compensation

• $1.2 Million settlement on behalf of a 44-year-old electronics engineer from Sweden. Our client was hired from Sweden to work on a project at the Automatic Vacuum Accumulation Center in Roosevelt Island. While working on large mainframe computers located on an elevated metal catwalk within the complex, our client was unaware that city employees had removed a section of the metal grating creating a large open space in the catwalk. As he walked around the computers, our client fell through the unbarricaded opening and plummeted 15 feet onto the concrete floor below. As a result of the fall, the Swedish engineer suffered from multiple fractures of his arm, leg and face as well as brain trauma–which affected his speech pattern and thinking ability.

• $650,000 for a 50-year-old Bronx laborer who suffered severe shoulder and internal injuries when he was struck by a beam which was thrown over the side of the building he was working on. This case was based on a violation of a Labor Law statute requiring the use of chutes for removal of such material.

• $925,000 for a CNBC television cameraman who fell from a cliff while shooting a rock climbing exercise near West Point, requiring a knee replacement. We established that the equipment provided by the excursion company supervising the climb was faulty.

Informative Links: Worker's Compensation

Workers' compensation and safety-related links

International Social Security Association
http://www.issa.int

American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds
http://www.aascif.org

International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
http://www.iaiabc.org

U.S. Worker's Compensation Law
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/workers_compensation.html

New York State Worker's Compensation Board
http://www.wcb.state.ny.us/content/main/wclaws/newlaws.htm

Worker's Compensation Insurance.com
http://www.workerscompensationinsurance.com