Court Upholds Reduced Award to Claimants' Attorney for Failure to Pay Sanction

A New York appellate court ruled that the fee award due to a claimants' attorney was properly reduced to account for the amount of work she had done, as well as her failure to pay a sanction imposed by the Workers' Compensation Board for her pre-trial conduct. Case: Matter of Kennedy v. New York City Department of Corrections, No. 522067, 06/30/2016, published. Facts: Steven Kennedy, a resident of Brooklyn, worked as a corrections officer in Queens. After he suffered an on-the-job injury at work in 2012, Kennedy hired Gerarda M. Rella of Rella & Associates to bring a workers'...