- FraudWe have a long and successful history of having been involved in some of the more complex cases in the field of workers’ compensation, including the defense of claims for reimbursement against workers’ compensation carriers by private disability carriers such as Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield; the protection of an employer’s right to recover paid wages in accordance with an ERISA Benefits Plan from awards of workers’ compensation benefits; insurance fraud; and coverage disputes.
- Homicide
- Workers CompensationFoley, Smit, O’Boyle & Weisman is the preeminent New York workers’ compensation defense firm. We proudly represent some of the industry’s largest and most influential insurance companies, self-insured employers, and third party administrators. On a daily basis our attorneys appear in person in every Workers' Compensation Board hearing location from as far north as New City to as far south as Hauppauge. We are also available to appear virtually for every hearing location in New York State.
- Personal InjuryMs. Beccaro has been an attorney since 1988. She is licensed in New York and Connecticut. She began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County specializing in narcotics and homicide prosecutions. Ms. Beccaro then was in- house counsel for a major insurance carrier, defending personal injury tort claims for more than a decade.
- Medical MalpracticeShe has practiced in medical malpractice defense litigation and Ms. Beccaro tried in excess of 120 cases to verdict during her litigation career. She has now been in Worker’s Compensation litigation since 2012.
- Tax LawFormer Supervising Law Judge, New York State Workers' Compensation Board; former counsel for Speaker of the New York State Assembly; former Law Assistant for New York State Supreme Court Judge Julius Greenspan; lecturer at New York Workers' Compensation Law Judges' Annual Seminar; lecturer and writer for New York State Bar Association; lecturer N.Y.S. Self-Insurers' Association; lectured at College of Insurance; Former President New York Workers' Compensation Bar Association; experienced in tax, real estate and tort litigation; now devoting his time exclusively to the field of workers' compensation and recovery of liens. Brooklyn Law School; Masters in Tax Law from New York University School of Law.