Timothy Kane is a Partner as Lois Law Firm. Timothy joined Lois after spending many years prosecuting workers’ compensation claims on behalf of injured workers throughout New York City. He has experience with all aspects of comp litigation, including trials, appeals, and negotiating settlements. Tim is able to draw upon his years of workers’ compensation experience in order to formulate comprehensive defense strategies on behalf of carriers and employers.
During law school, Timothy was a judicial intern for Hon. Michael Gerstein at Manhattan and Brooklyn Criminal Courts. He also participated in a post-graduate fellowship at Bedford-Stuyvesant Legal Services, representing tenants in eviction proceedings in housing court.
Tim Kane has been a guest on 6 episodes.
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Episode 76: What Can Brown Do For You?
January 19th, 2024 | 33 mins 51 secs
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Host Christian Sison kicks off the New Year by inviting LOIS Partner Tim Kane back to the show for Tim's 6th guest appearance.
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Episode 57: Defending 9/11 World Trade Center Claims
June 17th, 2022 | 39 mins
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Tim Kane joins the podcast to discuss his expertise in defending employers & carriers from obscure claims related to incidents and exposure at Ground Zero.
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Episode 48: What Does a Claimant Need to Prove Compensability for COVID-19?
March 19th, 2021 | 27 mins 17 secs
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Almost a year’s worth of cases have been through the arduous litigation process before the Workers’ Compensation Board. Christian Sison welcomes fellow LOIS Partner Timothy Kane to discuss how Judges and Board Panels are addressing these claims. Is due process even a concept anymore? Christian and Tim contemplate future actions and how to best defend these types of claims in the future.
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Episode 20: Investigating Date of Contracture in New York
September 21st, 2018 | 22 mins 21 secs
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An interesting New York Board Panel Decision is discovered by Timothy Kane who joins host Christian Sison for his 2nd guest appearance on the podcast. Apportionment and date of contracture become ripe issues when an established occupational disease claim reaches permanency. Does the Board Panel Decision create guidance that could result in more accurate exposure analysis? Can this be used by carriers and self-insureds to close cases faster? Listen in to this discussion.
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Episode 14: Third Department Review
March 16th, 2018 | 31 mins 34 secs
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Christian Sison and guest Timothy Kane review five Third Department decisions that were issued last month. Claimants in these cases alleged neck injuries after decelerating 5 miles per hour in a truck, alleged being smashed like a jelly donut by an elevator, and alleged eye injuries due to pepper spray in a prison. This is real life. These people are real, apparently!
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Episode 3: The Claimant Attorney Perspective
February 17th, 2017 | 23 mins 28 secs
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Christian Sison welcomes guest attorney, Timothy Kane, to the third Episode of the podcast. Christian and Tim discuss Tim’s prior role as a claimant’s attorney, and how that has helped him to be a zealous advocate for employers. The two of them then talk about using that information to stress aggressive investigation into claims, in preparation for litigation of several issues. After Tim plays “Guess the Outcome,” he and Christian conceptualize the difficulty of rebutting the presumption afforded to claimants pursuant to Section 21 of the New York Workers’ Compensation Law.