At dawn on Black Horse Pike, you take your place beside the cones while traffic begins to thicken. By lunch, your heels burn. At quitting time, the ache has climbed through your knees into your lower back, yet no fall, impact, or equipment failure marks its arrival. The next morning brings a fresh lane closure, more hard pavement, and another shift your body must absorb. Weeks become seasons. Pain...
Read MoreA patient starts to fall, but a nurse catches them before they hit the floor. Alarms don’t sound, and the nurse continues as usual. Across hospitals, nursing homes, and home-care visits in Atlantic, Cape May, Camden, and Mercer counties, years of saves, boosts, turns, and transfers can strain muscles and grind down spinal discs. By the time a nurse seeks a workers’ compensation back injury settlement, the pain may...
Read MoreSome Work-Related Injuries Are Sudden When many New Jersey workers hear the term “work-related injury,” they naturally contemplate a sudden, traumatic incident: falling from a ladder, cutting a finger with a circular saw, or the sudden flare up of pain in the low back from lifting a heavy object. Indeed, those sorts of injuries are all too common. They are also generally compensable under New Jersey’s workers’ compensation law....
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