Markhoff & Mittman, P.C.

Where the firm puts its attention

The firm works mainly with two groups: people injured at work, and people who can no longer earn a living because of a disability. It handles workers' compensation claims alongside Social Security disability, Supplemental Security Income, long term disability, and disability pensions tied to New York City and state retirement systems. Each of these covers income replacement, the money a person leans on once a paycheck stops.

The firm brands itself as The Disability Guys. That name lines up with what the site shows, since the disability and workers' compensation menus carry most of its depth. In my opinion the label is honest about where the firm spends its time.

The firm also lists disability pensions and long term disability as separate tracks. Disability pension claims usually run through a public retirement system, such as a city or state fund for police, fire, or civil service workers who can no longer do the job. Long term disability tends to run through a private insurance policy, one an employer bought or a person holds on their own.

A long run under one name

The firm dates its founding to 1933, more than ninety years under the Markhoff & Mittman name. A stretch that long usually means a firm has worked through several rewrites of New York's workers' compensation and Social Security rules. Both the about page and the attorneys page carry that 1933 date.

Longevity on its own proves little about any single case. What it does signal, as a reviewer I would say, is a firm that has kept the same focus while the surrounding law shifted around it. The workers' compensation and disability systems the firm works in today look very different from their 1930s versions.

How the team is built

Brian M. Mittman runs the firm as Managing Partner and owner, and his work covers workers' compensation, Social Security, and personal injury. Daniel S. Elias is a partner whose practice takes in labor law, medical malpractice, and personal injury. Randy Jacobs is an attorney who, by the firm's account, has helped represent hundreds of workers' compensation and Social Security claimants.

Benai Lifshitz has practiced law since her admission in 2008. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2003, then a Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 2007. Her page carries the fullest education detail of anyone on the team.

The team page also holds space for two colleagues who have died. Michael Monheit worked with the firm as an attorney and business consultant, and the page notes his death on January 21, 2021. Michael P. Dunne, who lived from 1969 to 2012, worked with the firm as well, and the team page remembers him as a colleague. As a reviewer, I read that as a firm willing to show its own history alongside its current roster.

What happens when a claim is denied

Much of the workers' compensation material on the site deals with appeals, hearings, and lump sum settlements. That points to a firm that takes claims at any stage, even ones an insurer or agency has already turned down. Denied claims are a common reason people first call a disability lawyer.

These matters tend to move along a set path. A denied workers' compensation claim in New York usually goes to a hearing before a workers' compensation law judge, where both sides put medical and wage evidence on the record. Social Security disability denials follow their own ladder: a reconsideration, then a hearing before an administrative law judge. A lump sum settlement, which the firm also handles, closes a claim for one agreed payment that ends the ongoing checks.

The disability side splits into two federal programs the site names. Social Security Disability Insurance pays workers who have built up enough work credits, while Supplemental Security Income supports people with limited income and resources, whatever their work history. A person can sometimes qualify for both, which is one reason a firm handles the two together.

Injury cases and workers' rights matters

Beyond disability, the firm lists personal injury work. The site names construction accidents, truck and bus crashes, slip and fall, motorcycle and pedestrian accidents, and train accidents. Construction cases often overlap with the workers' compensation side, since one job site injury can raise both a comp claim and an injury suit.

The firm also takes workers' rights disputes. Those include harassment and discrimination, wrongful dismissal, and unpaid overtime. Each runs on its own deadlines and agencies, which is part of why claimants bring them to a firm that already works in employment law.

Offices and the area served

The main office is in White Plains, and the site lists further offices in Westbury, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, New York City, Brooklyn, Goshen, and Newburgh. Nine locations in all give the firm a footprint across Westchester, the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and New York City. The stated service area covers White Plains, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester, and Yonkers.

The firm offers service in Spanish and keeps a Spanish-language personal injury page for that audience. For a client base that includes many Spanish speakers across the New York City area, that lowers a real barrier at the first call. The page carries the label Abogados de Lesiones Personales.

The exact White Plains contact point

The record gives 120 Bloomingdale Road as the firm's full White Plains address. That detail provides a precise street location for the main office. The website is https://thedisabilityguys.com, so its address follows the public-facing name rather than the Markhoff & Mittman, P.C. corporate name. The legal and public names remain distinct in the listing, which is useful when a client encounters one name online and the other on formal documents.

The White Plains entry also has two numbers with the 914 code: (914) 946-1452 and (914) 600-3874. The record does not label either one by department, so the directory properly presents both without assigning a purpose that the source does not state.

The published phone lines

The contact record contains ten phone numbers in total. Two use the 866 prefix: 866-205-2415 and 866-381-8208. The other eight use several area codes. Along with the two 914 numbers, the list includes (516) 267-6873 and (212) 897-9004. It also gives (718) 509-3599.

Three entries use the 845 code. Those are (845) 935-0017 and (845) 360-9931, followed by (845) 299-8095. The number of separate lines fits a record that identifies several office locations, although the source does not connect individual numbers to particular offices. A reader should therefore use the numbers as published rather than infer a location from their order in the record.

From a directory-review standpoint, the useful point is the amount of direct contact information available. A prospective client can choose between the two 866 lines and the numbers shown with regional area codes. The record supplies no office hours, extensions, intake instructions, or preferred line. It also makes no statement about text messaging or after-hours calls. Keeping those details out of the review avoids turning a substantial phone list into claims about how the firm's intake system operates.