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Employees who work for companies sometimes attend company sponsored events like picnics or dinners. When an employee gets injured at the event does the employee have the right to file a workers’ compensation claim in New Jersey workers’ compensation court? The New Jersey Supreme Court answered this question recently. In […]

In general, workers’ compensation courts in New Jersey permit the filing of two types of cases: Accident cases in which a worker is injured on a specific date and time, and Occupational cases in which a worker develops an injury performing repetitive and/or strenuous work or is exposed to fumes […]

On May 12, 2020, the New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the Appellate Division in New Jersey Transit Corp. v. Sandra Sanchez (A-68-18)(082292), finding that New Jersey Transit could file a claim against a driver’s automobile policy to recover workers’ compensation benefits that NJ Transit had paid to an employee following […]

NJ Supreme Court Affirms Appellate Division Decision and Protects Injured Employee and Medical Providers As discussed in my prior blog on the matter of The Plastic Surgery Center v. Malouf Chevrolet-Cadillac, 457 N.J. Super. 565 (App. Div. 2019), the Appellate Division held that a six-year statute of limitations, rather than […]