NY AFL-CIO Names WCA Board Member Advisor to Workers' Compensation Medical Guidelines Task Force
James McCarthy, Esq, a member of the New York Workers' Compensation Alliance Board of Directors and founder of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial Scholarship for children of injured workers, has been selected as an Advisor to the New York AFL-CIO on Governor Spitzer's new Workers' Compensation Medical Guidelines Task Force. Mr. McCarthy will serve along side Stephen Levin, MD, Co-Director of Mt. Sinai Medical Center's Irving Selikoff Center for Occupational Medicine and Robert Goldberg, DO, President of the New York State Medical Society.
Jim joins on the heels of our own John Sciortino who recently completed his assignment as an Advisor to the ALF-CIO on the "Rocket Docket" Task Force. The Task Force will be meeting up to twice a week through this November. Thanks to Denis Hughes and the AFL-CIO for turning to the Workers' Comp Alliance for counsel in this very important Task Force. Good luck and thanks to Jim for taking on this important assignment.