2024
- 11/27/2024 - Efficiency Enhancements: Issue 5, Claims Efficiencies
- 11/25/2024 - Resolving employer/payer identification issues: New process and guidance to avoid delays
- 11/21/2024 - New claim conciliation procedure for additional sites of injury and consequential injuries
- 11/15/2024 - Important reminders for WCB hearings
- 11/14/2024 - Enhanced Desk Review Process for Section 32 Waiver Agreements Effective January 2025
- 11/07/2024 - OnBoard hits two million PAR submissions!
- 10/04/2024 - Important updates: Board reopening
- 09/26/2024 - New Location for Workers' Compensation Board Long Island District Office
- 09/25/2024 - Important check-in requirements for in-person hearings/appointments in Brooklyn and Manhattan
- 09/23/2024 - Hearing Attendance Requirements for Attorneys and Legal Representatives
- 09/20/2024 - Reminder: Board offices open by appointment beginning October 8, 2024
- 09/19/2024 - Important update on hearing notices
- 09/19/2024 - Important form update: Section 32 Waiver Agreement: Claimant Release (Form C-32.1)
- 09/16/2024 - Case Indexing
- 08/28/2024 - Efficiency Enhancements: Issue 4, Legal Efficiencies
- 08/19/2024 - Board announces plan for fall 2024 reopening
- 06/27/2024 - Electronic Submission Mandate: Request for Further Action by Legal Counsel (Form RFA-1LC)
- 06/26/2024 - Register now for the Small Business Tour
- 06/14/2024 - NYS Workers' Compensation Board targets Fall 2024 return of in-person hearings
- 04/18/2024 - Updates regarding Form RB-89, Form RB-89.1, Form RB-89.2, and Form RB-89.3
- 04/03/2024 - Efficiency Enhancements: Issue 2
- 02/29/2024 - Efficiency Enhancements: Best practices from the Board
2023
- 12/15/2023 - Board to index every complete case by mid-2024
- 12/04/2023 - Form RFA-2 and other Board form updates
- 11/20/2023 - Electronic Submission of Request for Further Action by Legal Counsel (Form RFA-1LC)
- 09/12/2023 - Section 21-a and Claims Paid Without Liability
- 08/16/2023 - Expectations regarding virtual hearings and client representation
- 08/15/2023 - Form OC-400.1 now required for all attorney's fee requests
- 07/14/2023 - Telehealth Guidance
- 06/08/2023 - Forms filing update