Danielle O. Nelson

Danielle O. Nelson counsels and represents employers, insurers, and third-party administrators in a wide variety of workers’ compensation matters. Danielle has significant experience handling hearings before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board, drawing on her previous work in litigation for the Special Funds Conservation Committee.

Community Involvement

•Board of Directors, Housing Advantage, Inc.

Experience Highlights

Experience Highlights

In a workers’ compensation case involving a woman who waited too long to collect on an established claim for lost wages and medical benefits, associate attorney Danielle O. Nelson successfully defended a temporary-staffing agency whose liability risk was upward of $16,000. The case turned on the claimant’s decision not to collect immediately on her claim but, rather, to work through her injury by continuing to report for her temporary mailroom job until it ended.

After law school, Danielle organized a low-income wills clinic while doing pro bono work through Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County (VLSP). She later joined VLSP as a staff attorney and led the Kinship Signature Project and the Closing the Gap program.

Recent Insights

Super Lawyers Honors Nearly Two-Thirds of Goldberg Segalla’s Upstate New York Attorneys

August 13, 2019

Temporary-Staffing Agency Found Not Liable in Workers’ Compensation Case

January 29, 2019

Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Danielle O. Nelson

February 20, 2018