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Michael M. Goldberg is a personal injury attorney with over 25 years of experience and has recovered over 25 million dollars for his clients! He currently practices out of two offices, one in Long Island, New York (Rockville Centre) and the other in New York City (Midtown). While he accepts all types of personal injury and medical malpractice cases, he has a particular focus on “soft-tissue cases”. These are cases involving injuries to the muscles, tendons, or ligaments, joints, discs and/or nerves. Although these cases are challenging to prove, as the injuries are not always fully apparent and visible on...

My brother needed a bone marrow transplant. But, he made about $25 too much from Social Security disability benefits, his only source of income, to qualify for Medicaid. That was 1989. I was successful in helping him and have gone on to represent many, many people succesfully before the Social Security Administration.

We used to hear stories of alcoholics and drug addicts getting monthly checks just because of their alcoholism or drug addiction. We still see ridiculous stories of people getting benefits that seem unworthy, but the rules have changed. It's tougher to get benefits now. Today,...