People news: Goldberg Segalla adds workers’-compensation attorney in Syracuse–area office

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The law firm of Goldberg Segalla announced it has recently added attorney Lee C. Stoddard as a partner in the firm’s workers’-compensation group in its Syracuse–area office.

Stoddard was previously legal counsel with AmTrust Financial Services, which is based in New York City.

For more than eight years, Stoddard has focused his practice on representing self-insured employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators in workers’-compensation claims before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board. He has extensive experience handling all aspects of the claims process, including conducting hearings, deposing medical professionals, claimants, and employer witnesses, and negotiating and preparing settlement agreements, according to a Goldberg Segalla release.

Stoddard also provides counsel and legal guidance to claim examiners and risk adjusters regarding case management and the application of current laws, practices, and trends in workers’ compensation in New York state.

Stoddard earned his bachelor’s degree from the Syracuse University Whitman School of Management and his law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law.

 Buffalo–based Goldberg Segalla is a national civil-litigation law firm with 22 offices in 10 states spanning major metro markets across the U.S. and employing more than 400 lawyers. The firm’s Syracuse–area office is located on Widewaters Parkway in DeWitt, according to its website. It’s one of seven Goldberg Segalla offices in New York state.