There are new procedures for the enforcement of unpaid arbitration awards and the payment of an attorneys fee for obtaining payment of such unpaid awards. When do these new procedures take effect?
• Ans: The new procedures for obtaining payment of an unpaid award and for the payment of an attorney’s fee for enforcement of awards apply to requests for enforcement of awards that result from arbitration requests filed with the American Arbitration Association on or after April 5, 2002. • No-Fault provides coverage for my lost wages subject to a 20% statutory offset. My lost wage payment is subject to additional statutory offsets for amounts recovered or recoverable on account of personal injury to an eligible injured person under State or Federal laws providing disability benefits. Are these other statutory offsets deducted from my gross wages before application of the 20% offset, or are they deducted after application of the 20% offset? • Ans: The determination of whether the offsets for New York State Disability benefits are deducted before or after the 20% offset is dependent upon the taxability of the disability benefit. If the benefit is taxable, it is deducted prior to applic
