October 2, 2026

Fear keeps more injured workers silent than any legal rule does. A worker falls from a ladder in Elmhurst, gets driven home instead of to a hospital, and never reports it, because someone on the crew said a claim would put him on a list. That advice is wrong, and in New York it has […]

Injured workers are handed numbers from every direction, usually by people with something to sell. The honest picture comes from two public sources: New York’s workers’ compensation schedule, which sets fixed dollar values for the loss of a body part, and the written decisions in which appellate courts approved or reduced real jury awards. Neither

Riders assume that a Lyft crash means Lyft’s insurance pays, and in most of New York State that is roughly true. Inside the five boroughs the structure is different, and the difference is measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Which tier of coverage was active, and where the trip started, decides how many dollars