Terry Katz & Associates, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

Since 1992, the firm has worked on behalf of injured workers across New York. It handles three connected areas: workers' compensation, Social Security Disability, and personal injury. The published material also names workplace injuries and illnesses, occupational diseases, and third-party liability claims. On the disability side, the work covers Social Security appeals and hearings, along with SSDI and SSI claims.

These areas often overlap in one client's situation. A worker hurt on the job may file a workers' compensation claim, then apply for Social Security Disability when the injury keeps them out of work for a long stretch. Handling both areas together lets a firm track how one claim affects the other. That single focus on injured workers runs through everything the firm lists.

How workers' compensation and disability claims proceed

These cases move through several stages, which explains why many people hire counsel for them. In New York, workers' compensation and Social Security Disability each follow their own path with its own decision-makers.

Workers' compensation

A workers' compensation case in New York runs through the state Workers' Compensation Board. It starts with a report of injury, medical evidence, and forms filed within strict deadlines. When benefits, treatment, or the degree of disability are in dispute, the matter goes before a workers' compensation law judge at a hearing. Testimony from treating doctors and reviews of what a person can still do often decide the outcome.

Social Security Disability

Social Security Disability follows a separate federal track. An initial application goes to the Social Security Administration, and a denial at that first stage is common. The next steps are reconsideration and then a hearing before an administrative law judge. SSDI covers people with a qualifying work history, and SSI rests on financial need. A firm that takes both kinds of matters can carry a claim through the initial filing and the later appeal stages.

The personal injury and third-party side

Beyond the compensation system, the firm lists personal injury work and third-party liability claims. These matter when someone other than the employer bears part of the blame for a workplace injury. A construction worker hurt by faulty equipment, for example, may have a claim against the maker of that equipment on top of a compensation claim against the employer. The two tracks run under different rules and different courts.

Third-party claims can affect the compensation side, since money recovered from another party may need to be shared with the workers' compensation insurer. Coordinating the two is detailed work, and a firm that handles both can keep the timing and the numbers aligned. That overlap is one reason the firm keeps its three practice areas under one roof.

How the team is built

Three attorneys appear on the firm's roster. Terry Katz, the founding partner, opened the firm in 1992 and gives it its name. Madison Katz and Justin Lieberman are listed as attorneys. The site lists names and titles for the group; it does not publish biographies, law schools, or admission years.

A small named roster has a practical side for clients. As a reviewer, I read a three-attorney list as a sign that the same lawyers likely stay with a file over its life. Continuity matters in claims that run for months or years, when a judge, an insurer, and a treating doctor all become familiar names along the way.

Where the firm works

The main office is in Uniondale, on Long Island. The firm also refers to offices in Westbury and a branch in Manhattan. Its client base reaches across Long Island and New York City, including the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, Nassau County, and Suffolk County.

Language access is part of the setup. The firm offers services in English and Spanish and can speak with Spanish-speaking clients directly. For workers' compensation and disability matters, where medical records and hearing testimony carry the case, talking through details in a first language removes a real barrier.

What the record shows

The firm states that it has helped more than 25,000 New York workers injured on the job pursue workers' compensation and disability benefits. That number comes from the firm's own site, and it points to steady volume in the decades since 1992. It sits alongside the firm's stated focus on injured workers.

Longevity is its own kind of evidence in this field. A firm active since 1992 has worked under several versions of New York's workers' compensation rules and through changes in how Social Security handles disability hearings. Staying with the same three practice areas over that span suggests a settled focus, and the founder's continued role at the top keeps the name and the direction consistent.

For someone weighing this firm, the steady facts carry weight: a founding year of 1992, a founder who still leads, three named attorneys, and a defined list of practice areas tied to work injuries and disability. Services run in English and Spanish, and the offices reach from Long Island into New York City. In my opinion, the firm's pages stay consistent on those points. The firm's stated focus has stayed on workers' compensation, Social Security Disability, and personal injury since 1992.

The attorneys and their backgrounds

All three lawyers on the roster studied at Hofstra University School of Law. Terry Katz earned his Juris Doctor there and holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland. He works on workers' compensation and Social Security Disability cases, and he takes personal injury matters as well. Over the years he has lectured across New York to unions and workplace groups about the rights of injured and disabled workers, and he has been a featured continuing legal education lecturer.

Madison Katz also attended Hofstra. She worked at the firm as a file clerk and then as a legal intern before she became an attorney, so she knew the practice from the inside well before she took her own cases. She has represented injured workers in compensation matters since 2013. Justin Lieberman is Of Counsel and graduated from Hofstra in 2010. His work covers workers' compensation for claimants along with Social Security Disability.

The boards where the firm appears

Madison Katz has appeared before Workers' Compensation Law Judges at Boards in Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester. That geographic spread carries practical weight for a claimant. A New York workers' compensation hearing takes place at the Board district tied to where a person lives or works, and each district has its own judges and clerks. A lawyer who has already stood before those judges reads the local rhythm of how a case tends to move. That familiarity helps when a hearing gets scheduled or when a judge signals what a case will need to show. She handles a claim at its initial filing and stays involved through the hearing and appeal stages. Her work also reaches permanency awards and settlements.

The office and a first call

The firm keeps its main office at 505 RXR Plaza in Uniondale. A first consultation costs nothing, which lets someone lay out the facts of an injury before deciding whether to file. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and the phone line is (516) 997-0997. For a worker weighing a claim, that free first meeting is a low-risk way to learn whether a compensation case or a disability application fits the situation.