You are hurt at work, and the accident and ensuing chaos may mean that you utterly forget to complete an Employee Accident Form. You suffered an injury while on the job, and you may not believe it is serious enough to seek medical treatment or report it to your...
A question that we often hear is whether workers’ compensation covers injuries sustained by individuals while driving to or from work. In the majority of these cases, our response is generally, “No.” An employer is typically not responsible for providing workers’ comp benefits to its employees accidentally injured during...
Many of New Jersey’s employees who suffer from WEAR and TEAR injuries assume – incorrectly – that they are not eligible for workers’ compensation benefits because their injuries developed gradually as opposed to suddenly. Unfortunately, this misconception prevents many employees from reporting their WEAR and TEAR injuries to their...
While some states have specific treatment guidelines that healthcare providers must follow with regard to workers’ comp patients, New Jersey has no such publications. For example, New York requires all medical care providers to treat every existing and new workers’ comp injury in accordance with New York’s Medical Treatment...
If you or a loved received injuries due to the negligence of someone else – whether in a car accident that was not your fault, a slip and fall on someone’s property due to improper maintenance, or even if a defective product caused you injury – you should seek...
Filing for Workers’ Compensation Benefits in New Jersey Many employees in New Jersey know very little about the state’s workers’ compensation system and the availability of workers’ compensation benefits to employees injured on the job. Unfortunately, without a basic understanding of the system and the process, employees who suffer...
In many cases, employees who suffer work-related injuries choose to pay for resulting medical expenses using their employer-provided or private health insurance coverage rather than filing a workers’ comp claim. Even though it may seem easier to do this, it is never a good idea. The reality is that...
Many of New Jersey’s injured workers incorrectly assume that in order to file a workers’ comp claim, the work-related injury must be sudden and acute. Unfortunately, too many employers and insurance companies take few steps, if any, to correct this common misconception. The truth is that under New Jersey’s...
Most Americans naturally consider some jobs to be hazardous. For example, we recognize that police officers face daily risks. Many cringe at the vocational dangers faced by workers who calmly scale tall radio towers or make nimble moves on steel girders suspended high in the sky. We don’t think...
The New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system provides that employers and/or workers’ compensation insurance companies must pay for an employee’s reasonable and necessary medical treatment causally related to a work injury. In other words, if you are injured on the job, the law says that you do not need to...