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by: Douglas Kugal, Esq. The pre 2012 Super Bowl inspiring story of former NFL player, Steve Gleason and his battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) raises some interesting issues relevant to Social Security Disability. Under the Compassionate Allowance program, those diagnosed with ALS are supposed to have a simpler path to getting their benefits. This [...]

by: Raymond Silverman, Esq. New York City is a city of walkers. We walk to the subway. We walk to the grocery store. We walk to meet friends at a restaurant. We walk quickly and with purpose. Sometimes, unfortunately, we walk right into a piece of broken or damaged sidewalk — and we take a [...]

by: Brett Leitner, Esq. New York’s Public Health Law § 2801-d provides a private statutory cause of action for residents of nursing homes injured as a result of the nursing home’s deprivation of certain “resident’s rights.” It is a separate and distinct cause of action and may be plead “in addition to and cumulative with [...]

by: Raymond Silverman, Esq. A client of ours, a plumber, was working at a construction site in Brooklyn. One of the legs of the ladder he was standing on broke in half – causing the plumber to fall to the ground and fracture the heel of his foot. As a man in his late 50s, [...]

by: Gary Falkowitz, Esq. Amid concerns about the use of surgical mesh for transvaginal procedures, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently ordered manufacturers to conduct new studies of the use of this product to treat two conditions that affect millions of women – pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. This move by the [...]