Experienced Workers Comp Attorney and Referee

Melissa Richburg

***********@*****.*** - 518-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Compensation Claims Referee

NYS Workers' Compensation Board - Menands, NY - May 2008 to Present

Preside over workers' compensation hearings, discrimination hearings, disability hearings and Paid Family Leave discrimination hearings. Schedule and hear lay testimony. Order medical depositions (when necessary). Make rulings from the bench when appropriate. Write reserved decisions after all lay and medical testimony is taken.

Prepare Proposed Decisions for disability benefits cases. Approve Administrative Decisions for workers’ compensation cases.

Senior Attorney-Office of General Counsel

NYS Workers' Compensation Board - Albany, NY - March 2000 to May 2008

Review Memorandum of Board Panel Decisions before the decisions are ruled upon by the NYS Appellate Division 3d Department. Rewrite decisions if necessary.

Review and respond to Executive Correspondence.

Administer all legal aspects of the Workers' Compensation Board's Health Insurers' Matching Program (HIMP), including drafting Memorandums of Understanding and regulations. Research and write memos to programs areas providing advice and counsel.

Senior Attorney-Office of Administrative Review

NYS Workers' Compensation Board - Albany, NY - April 1998 to March 2000

Review Compensation Claims Referees' Notice of Decisions. Write Memorandum of Board Panel Decisions that affirm, modify, or reverse the Notice of Decisions.

EDUCATION

JD

Albany Law School cum laude - Albany, NY

1995

BA in Government

Smith College - Northampton, MA

1991

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