About Us Our mission is to maximize our clients’ productivity and profits by keeping their employees working and safe. Since 1992, Friedlander Group is the leader in workers’ compensation in New York for Retailers, Wholesalers, Restaurants, Hotels, Oil Dealers, Home Health Agencies and Residential Care facilities. As the group manager of seven Safety Groups underwritten by the New York State Insurance Fund, Friedlander Group has saved thousands of our clients over $550 million in workers’ compensation costs.