Polsky, Shouldice & Rosen, P.C.

A single focus on workers' compensation

The firm practices one area of law: New York workers' compensation. It has done that work since 1991, when it began representing employees who were hurt or made ill on the job. Its cases run from the first filing through hearings and appeals. In my opinion, that narrow scope is the clearest signal on the whole site.

Workers' compensation pays benefits based on the injury itself, and the firm builds its work around that idea. The stated aim is to help injured employees seek payment for medical bills, lost wages and disability. Clients speak with an attorney from the first consultation onward, and the firm keeps bilingual staff on hand. That mix suits a client base of working people who may be filing a legal claim for the first time.

The injury claims the firm handles

Within workers' compensation, the firm names several kinds of workplace injury it takes on. These include construction accidents, occupational diseases and illnesses, and on-the-job injuries of a broader kind.

The list runs on to motor vehicle accidents that happen while a person is working, repetitive stress injuries, and slip and fall accidents. The firm also names injuries to Uber drivers as a category it handles, which puts gig work inside the same compensation system that covers traditional employees.

Each of these carries its own proof problems. An occupational illness can take years to surface, and the tie between the job and the condition often turns on medical records and testimony. A repetitive stress injury raises similar questions about cause. The firm's choice to list these by name gives a client a quick read on whether their situation fits.

Offices and the area the firm covers

The firm keeps offices in four places: Rockville Centre, Brooklyn, Hauppauge and the Bronx. That spread puts it on Long Island and inside New York City at once. The main office is in Rockville Centre, in Nassau County.

By the firm's account, its cases reach across the New York City area, including Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, together with Nassau and Suffolk counties. A nearby office can carry weight in these matters. New York routes workers' compensation hearings through district offices tied to where a person lives or works, so distance to a hearing site is a practical concern for an injured claimant.

How the team is built

The site names eleven attorneys: Mark Polsky, Donald Shouldice, Adam Rosen, Les Jarmol, Scott Granelli, Tim Rogers, Patrick Conroy, Eric Bolanos, Elianna S. Perdik, Aliyah Khan and Jessica Feldman. That is a sizeable group for a firm that works in one field, and it points to enough hands to cover hearings across four offices.

Mark Polsky

Mark Polsky is a partner and the founder named in the firm's data. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1987 and has practiced workers' compensation law since then. He studied at Brandeis University, finishing in 1982, and earned his law degree from Hofstra Law School in 1986.

Polsky is president of the Nassau County Bar Association's Workers' Compensation Committee. He has lectured on issues affecting injured workers and has spoken with local unions about their compensation rights. He has also written articles on current questions in the field. As a reviewer, I read that public record as a fair marker of how long he has worked in this corner of the law.

The firm presents the other ten attorneys as a named group alongside Polsky. In my opinion, a bench of that size, held to one practice area, is the more telling fact about how the firm runs.

How these claims tend to proceed

Workers' compensation in New York moves on a set track, and knowing it helps in reading what this firm offers. A claim starts with a filing that reports the injury and the employer to the state Board. Medical evidence follows, since the injury and its link to work sit at the center of the case.

From there a claim can go to a hearing before a workers' compensation law judge, who weighs the medical proof and any testimony. If the claim is denied or the benefit amount is in dispute, the next stage is an appeal to a Board panel, and in some cases to the courts after that. The firm says it handles this full path: the initial filing, the hearings, and the appeals that follow.

What the site documents

The public material lines up on the core facts. The firm name, the 1991 start, the single practice area and the four offices appear across the home, about and attorney pages, and in the site's structured data. The site also states Mark Polsky's bar admission year and his law school.

The firm points to more than thirty years in one field and a partner who chairs a county bar committee in that same field. Those facts are the ones a client can check before making contact. The firm has kept to New York workers' compensation since 1991, and its data names eleven attorneys working in that single area.