We recently obtained a total disability workers’ compensation award for a longstanding client who was a truck driver/delivery person in a very physically demanding job where he worked for approximately 34 years. He had two separate “wear and tear” occupational exposure claims in 2008 and 2012, together with a...
On November 21, 2023, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, addressed whether an employee’s car accident occurred while in the course and scope of his employment and would therefore be compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act in the case Keim v. Above All Termite & Pest Control. In finding...
On October 27, 2023 the New Jersey Appellate Division issued an unpublished decision which addressed the verbal threshold a plaintiff must overcome to bring a successful claim for pain and suffering against a public entity or public employee in the State of New Jersey under the Tort Claims Act...
In a recent unpublished Appellate Division case decided on October 30, 2023, the Court was called upon to determine whether there exits a duty of inquiry when a piece of equipment, in this case, a forklift, is entrusted to another individual. In Medina v. Bartlett Dairy, Inc, the plaintiff,...
In a recent unpublished Appellate Division case decided on June 1, 2023, the Court addressed the issues of actual or constructive and the “mode of operation” doctrine in the setting of a slip and fall at the supermarket. The trial court held that the doctrine did not apply and...
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