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Alex Shulman
Shulman & Hill Injury Lawyers has represented injured New Yorkers since 2013. Our Bronx home health aide injury lawyers have more than 200 years of combined experience and understand the financial pressure home-care workers face when an agency cuts their hours or an insurance carrier questions their claim.
One of our Bronx workers’ compensation lawyers can help you pursue workers’ compensation benefits, challenge unfair claim decisions, and determine whether someone outside your employer may also be responsible. Contact Shulman & Hill for a free consultation.
How Our Bronx Home Health Aide Injury Lawyers at Shulman & Hill Support Clients
Home health aides care for New Yorkers in their most vulnerable moments. When that work harms your health, we make sure your labor and injuries are taken seriously.
Our Bronx personal injury lawyers can:
- File and develop your workers’ compensation claim.
- Seek approval for medical treatment.
- Challenge denied or reduced wage benefits.
- Establish your correct average weekly wage.
- Document lifting duties and repeated physical strain.
- Investigate unsafe building conditions and work-related travel.
- Represent you at Workers’ Compensation Board hearings.
- Pursue an available claim against an outside party.
Shulman & Hill has recovered more than $1 billion for over 26,000 clients. Our offices throughout New York City give Bronx workers access to an established legal team that knows how injury claims affect working families.
Home-Care Work Can Put Your Body at Risk
You may work alone without mechanical lifts, additional staff, or immediate help when a patient falls. Apartments may also have narrow hallways, steep stairs, loose flooring, and cramped bathrooms that make routine care unsafe.
Home health aides may be injured while:
- Moving a patient between a bed and wheelchair.
- Preventing a patient from falling.
- Assisting with bathing, dressing, or toileting.
- Lifting groceries, laundry, or medical supplies.
- Walking through cluttered rooms or dim stairwells.
- Entering or leaving an apartment building.
- Responding to aggressive or unpredictable behavior.
- Traveling between scheduled patient visits.
An injury can qualify as work-related even when it happens inside a patient’s residence rather than at an agency office.
Workers’ Compensation for Bronx Home Health Aides
New York workers’ compensation can pay for authorized treatment related to a job injury or occupational condition. Cash benefits may also be available when you cannot work, or your injury causes you to earn less.
Benefits may cover:
- Medical appointments and diagnostic testing.
- Hospital treatment and surgery.
- Prescription medication and rehabilitation.
- Temporary lost-wage payments.
- Benefits for reduced earnings.
- Awards for certain permanent injuries.
- Death benefits for qualifying family members.
You do not have to miss work to receive medical benefits. You may also qualify for partial wage benefits if you return with restrictions, receive fewer assignments, or cannot perform the same level of care.
Federal employees, including USPS workers, use a separate federal benefits system that our firm does not handle.
When an Agency Questions Your Employment
Home-care arrangements are not always straightforward. An agency or carrier may argue that you were not working when the injury occurred, that another agency employed you, or that your condition came from duties performed for a different patient.
We examine:
- Your schedule and patient assignments.
- Pay statements and time records.
- Agency instructions and care plans.
- Text messages, calls, and visit confirmations.
- Travel records between appointments.
- The duties you were expected to perform.
- Reports made to the patient, family, coordinator, or agency.
A Bronx home health aide injury attorney can use these records to show when your shift began, what work you were assigned, and how the injury occurred.
Can You Bring a Claim Against a Property Owner or Driver?
Workers’ compensation is generally the claim available against your employer. You may also have a personal injury case when another person or business caused your accident.
A separate claim may apply when:
- A landlord or building owner failed to repair unsafe stairs.
- A property manager allowed a dangerous entrance or hallway condition to remain.
- An outside maintenance contractor created a slip or fall hazard.
- A negligent driver caused a collision during covered work travel.
- Another company controlled the area where you were hurt.
A personal injury lawsuit may seek damages workers’ compensation does not provide, including pain and suffering and fuller compensation for past and future lost earnings.
Our home health aide injury lawyers in the Bronx investigate both types of claims and coordinate them when they arise from the same accident.
Insurance Carriers May Dispute Your Injuries
Home health aides often continue working because they cannot afford to lose hours. An insurer may later use that continued work to argue that the injury is not serious.
A carrier may also claim that:
- Your pain came from an earlier condition.
- You did not report the injury soon enough.
- Your medical records describe a different event.
- You can return to unrestricted duties.
- Your weekly wage was calculated correctly.
- Travel between appointments was personal.
- Your agency was not your employer.
We respond with medical findings, assignment records, wage documents, witness accounts, and testimony about the physical demands of your work.
Protect Your Rights After an Injury
Get medical care and tell the provider that your condition is connected to your job. Report the injury to the agency in writing, even when a coordinator or patient already knows what happened.
New York workers generally must notify their employer within 30 days and file a workers’ compensation claim within two years. Different deadlines may apply to gradual conditions, third-party lawsuits, and claims involving a government entity.
Keep copies of schedules, pay records, medical instructions, agency messages, and benefit notices. Early documentation can prevent an insurer from controlling the only written account of the accident.
Contact a Home Health Aide Injury Attorney in Bronx
You spend your workday helping patients remain safe, mobile, and cared for. When an injury prevents you from doing that work, you need clear advice about treatment, lost income, and your legal rights.
Contact Shulman & Hill for a free consultation with one of our home health aide injury attorneys in the Bronx. We will listen to what happened, review the available claims, and pursue the benefits and compensation New York law provides.
