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Effective January 1, 2024, New York State has increased the minimum weekly benefit rate for workers’ compensation benefits. As of the new year (2024), the minimum weekly benefit increased to $275 per week, a hike from the minimum weekly benefit that has been $150 per week since 2013.  If an injured worker’s regular wages are less than the minimum weekly benefit ($275), they will receive their full, regular wages. The new legislation, signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul on [...]

Christopher R. Lemire presented "How to Prepare a Workers' Compensation Fraud Case" for the New York State Association of Self-Insured Counties at the 2016 Fall Conference held at the Great Escape Lodge on September 29, 2016.