As previously reported, the Warshawsky Law Firm represents a former insurance company employee who was fired after her request for a religious exemption to the company’s COVID-19 vaccination policy was denied. She started her lawsuit pro se and was facing the company’s proposed motion to dismiss when she retained us to take over her case. Even
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Warshawsky Law Firm Defeats Employer’s Motion To Dismiss In COVID-19 Vaccine Exemption Case
The Warshawsky Law Firm represents a former employee of 1199 SEIU National Benefit Fund who was fired after her request for a religious exemption to the union’s COVID-19 vaccination policy was denied. Like so many others, our client was forced to choose between her faith and her livelihood when the union instituted a vaccine mandate
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Warshawsky Law Firm Files Amended Complaint In Religious Accommodation Case Against Coverys Insurance Company
The Warshawsky Law Firm has been retained to represent a former insurance company employee who was fired after her request for a religious exemption to the company’s COVID-19 vaccination policy was denied. Like so many others, our client was forced to choose between her faith and her livelihood when the company instituted a vaccine mandate
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Warshawsky Law Firm Files Summary Judgment Motion On Behalf Of Female Culinary College Professor Under New York State Equal Pay Law
The Warshawsky Law Firm represents Chef Anita Eisenhauer, who has been a faculty member at the Culinary Institute of America since 2002, and who has been paid less than a similarly-situated male colleague despite having six years greater seniority, teaching a wider variety of culinary classes, having the exact same college degrees, and progressing through
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Steven M. Warshawsky Argues COVID-19 Vaccine Exemption Appeal Before 2nd Circuit
On Monday, January 6, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral argument in the case of Stephanie Kushner v. New York City Department of Education, Appeal No. 23-7274, which involves a claim for failure to accommodate the plaintiff’s religious objections to a COVID-19 vaccination policy. The panel members were Chief
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2024 Year In Review
2024 was another busy and successful year for the Warshawsky Law Firm. I am sincerely thankful for all the clients who have entrusted me with their cases. For the past two years, the lion’s share of my practice has been representing employees who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. I have represented a
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Warshawsky Law Firm Represents Employees Victimized By Unfair DEI Policies
If a rose by another name would smell as sweet, then discrimination by any other name is just as odious. At the Warshawsky Law Firm, we believe that all employees, regardless of sex, color, or creed, are entitled to a workplace free of discrimination. All employees should be judged based on their qualifications, talents, work
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Warshawsky Law Firm Represents Long Island Man In Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Hospital That Refused To Treat Wife’s Severe COVID-19 Illness With Ivermectin
The Warshawky Law Firm is very proud to represent a Long Island man whose wife died of severe COVID-19 illness after hospital administrators repeatedly blocked her attending physician’s prescriptions to treat her condition with ivermectin, despite the plaintiff obtaining two court orders requiring the ivermectin be given to his wife. The case is Scott Mantel
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Warshawsky Law Firm Defeats Hospital’s Motion For Summary Judgment In Wrongful Psychiatric Detention Case
The Warshawsky Law Firm represents a client who was wrongly placed on a “psych hold” in the Emergency Room at Albany Medical Center after she presented with routine complaints of insomnia and anxiety. Instead of giving her individualized care appropriate to the circumstances, the treating physicians (mainly inexperienced residents) looked up her past medical history,
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Steven M. Warshawsky To Speak At Covid Litigation Conference 2023 (Media Update)
The Warshawsky Law Firm is pleased to announce that Steven M. Warshawsky will be speaking at the upcoming Covid Litigation Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 25-26, 2023. The Covid Litigation Conference is being organized by the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (Steve Kirsch, Founder) and will bring together trial lawyers from all across the country
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