Legal Report by Milan Rada, Esq. with John Hewson, Esq. With yet again another recent anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, it is an ever-present reminder of the aftermath of those attacks and the injuries, disabilities, and deaths that it has left behind. From respiratory conditions to cancers, the number of conditions that the World Trade Center Health Monitoring Program…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada, Esq. Labor Day arrives – it’s the end of the summer, teachers, and kids are back to school, PBA Open Meetings resume (3rd Thursday of every month @ 8 PM; September 21 is the next Open Meeting), adults have to get out of vacation mode and get serious and the Legal Report is back after…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada, Esq. and Joseph S. Bavaro, Esq. HOW THE LAW PROTECTS POLICE OFFICERS INJURED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES: General Municipal Law 205-e If a police officer is injured by a third party (someone who is not the employer, someone who is not the agent of the employer or someone not a co-employee) while in…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada Esq., with John Hewson, Esq. As we approach the summer months, we often forget how rapidly these months seem to go by. All of a sudden it’s the fall, and before we know it, we are almost through 2017. A major topic of discussion throughout the end of last year and into this year has…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada, Esq. with John Hewson, Esq. Working as a police officer is a dangerous and high-risk profession in which injuries are an unfortunate result of simply doing the job. Further, we have seen over the years that very rarely does a police officer with years of service ever go to work pain-free. Pain is an almost…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada, Esq. with John Hewson, Esq. Recently a police officer called to tell us that he tweaked his back getting out of his police car one morning when he lost his footing on some ice. He had an older line of duty aided number for a prior back injury and he was unsure of what to…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada Esq. with John Hewson, Esq. We all know the old adage about a tree falling in the forest without no one around. Unfortunately, the same is true of injuries that go unreported. Did the injury actually happen if no one knows about it? It sounds more philosophical than it should because obviously, the injury happened,…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada Esq., with John Hewson, Esq. There are several recurrent themes that we see over and over again when we do appointments with members. Thankfully, most of these issues are easily dealt with. The troubling part is that several are so important that they continuously warrant discussion and need to be stressed because the failure to…
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Legal Report by Milan Rada, Esq. with John Hewson, Esq. At the start of the New Year, we feel it is beneficial to stress the importance of certain fundamental requirements as they relate to line of duty injuries: 1) Per the Department Manual, you MUST report your injury to the Department within seven (7) days of the injury, even if you…
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Legal Report By Milan Rada, Esq. with John Hewson, Esq. We have not written about Social Security Disability Benefits with the same frequency as accidental and performance of duty disability benefits (3/4 and ½). Nevertheless, Social Security Disability Benefits can be just as important a part of post retirement financial planning as many of the other sources of income such…
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