New Mexico Court Allows Agricultural Workers to Pursue Case Challenging Denial of Workers’ Compensation

In Griego v. New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Commission, the state trial court initially denied a motion to dismiss and ruled that a severely injured New Mexico farmworker and two groups that represent farm and ranch laborers may pursue…

NCLEJ Report on Barriers Childless Adults Face in Accessing Public Health Insurance

Childless Adults: Barriers to Enrollment in Public Health Insurance (pdf) is a qualitative study of uninsured New Yorkers who are eligible for public coverage but are not enrolled. Beyond its groundbreaking work exploring the specific barriers faced by…

NCLEJ Sues Nassau County NY For Delaying Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Hundreds Each Month

NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in January 2015 in a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging Nassau County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp,…

NCLEJ Sues New Hampshire for Failing to Pay Full Medical Costs

Capps v. Toumpas challenges New Hampshire’s policy of refusing to reimburse Medicaid recipients who receive Medicaid through the Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled program for the full amount of their prescription medication expenses incurred from the…

NCLEJ and Empire Justice Center Achieve Settlement Ending Lengthy Delays in Processing of Food Stamp and Medicaid Applications in Long Island, New York

NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in July 2014 in a United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York case challenging Suffolk County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp and Medicaid…

NCLEJ, Western New York Law Center, and Empire Justice Center file class action challenging food stamp, Medicaid, and cash public assistance application delays in Steuben County, NY

In February 2010, NCLEJ, the Western New York Law Center, and the Empire Justice Center achieved a settlement approved by the United States District Court for the Western District of New York in a class action case challenging…

Issue Brief on New York Medicaid Spenddown Excess Income Program

NCLEJ Achieves Settlement Providing Due Process Protections for Tens of Thousands of Missouri Children

NCLEJ and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) have achieved a settlement in a case in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri challenging Missouri’s unlawful practice of terminating health coverage without due process…

NCLEJ and Colleagues Achieve Settlement in Colorado Requiring Prompt Processing of Benefits Applications

On January 3, 2008 the state court approved a settlement in this case, which was filed in August 2004 court following Colorado’s premature launch of a flawed new computer system to manage applications and ongoing eligibility for all…