Vanessa Cruz

Vanessa Cruz has spent her entire career securing benefits for New York's injured and disabled workers. A graduate of the Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law, class of 1994, and admitted to the New York bar in 1995, Ms. Cruz brings three decades of legal experience to the clients of Miller & Caggiano, LLP.

Her practice centers on workers' compensation, Social Security law, and the New York State disability retirement system, where she has built an extensive record of obtaining benefits for union employees, police officers, corrections officers, and injured workers of every trade. Disability retirement work in particular rewards deep institutional knowledge. The rules are technical, the deadlines unforgiving, and the stakes, a working person's financial security after injury, could hardly be higher. Ms. Cruz has made that terrain her home.

Her range extends beyond the disability system. Ms. Cruz also carries experience in real estate, landlord and tenant law, and Surrogate's Court practice, a breadth that gives her a well-rounded view of the legal and financial pressures her clients face beyond a single claim. She is admitted to practice before the New York state courts and the United States District Courts for both the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Ms. Cruz stays deeply engaged with the professional community that shapes her field. She is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association, serves on the Suffolk County Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disabilities Committee, and belongs to the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. Her selection as a 2026 Top Attorney in America recognizes a career defined by durability, technical mastery, and unwavering commitment to New York's injured and disabled workers.