ALBANY, NY - Governor David A. Paterson has appointed Robert E. Beloten as the Chairman of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, effective July 15, 2009. Since Beloten currently serves on the Board as a commissioner, he does not need Senate confirmation. His current term expires 2015.

Mr. Beloten has been a presiding law judge at the New York State Workers' Compensation Board from 1988-1996 and 2000-2009. From 1996-2000, he was a Senior Law Associate at the law firm of Keating and Klein of Syosset, New York a firm specializing in health care law.

In addition between 1996-2000, Mr. Beloten, also served as a part-time hearing officer in the New York Supreme Court in Mineola, New York conducting hearings on property assessments on residential properties in Nassau County and was an arbitrator and mediator for the Workers' Compensation Alternative Resolution Panel for the Construction Trade in Albany, New York.

From 1985-1988, was an assistant counsel For the New York State Racing and Wagering Board. He instituted Administrative proceedings to ascertain violations of statues, rules and regulations governing racing and pari-mutuel wagering which include the administering of controlled and/or prohibited substances to horses, as well as the failure of employers to provide their employees with required workers' compensation insurance.

Mr. Beloten clerked for New York Civil Court Judges Herbert A. Posner and Pearle Appelman from 1981-1984, in Kew Gardens. He has lectured extensively throughout New York on medical law and workers' compensation.

He earned his law degree from the Hofstra University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland, College Park with concentrations in History, Government and Politics and Zoology.