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Police Officers Must Remain Alert During Traffic Stops
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USA Today Explores Alternative Types of Disability Insurance
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New Jersey Resident Files Personal Injury Lawsuit Against Operators of “Haunted House”
On October 9, 2011, Steven Chrzanowski—of Gloucester City, N.J.—was visiting a “haunted house” on the site of the old Pennhurst Asylum. The asylum is an infamous site [...]
Social Security Beneficiaries warned about identity thieves taking disability benefits
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Injured workers in Northeast States Have Highest Rates of Post-Treatment Opioid Addiction Among Workers’ Compensation Recipients
[bs_row class="row"] [bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-8"] [/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col] [/bs_row] Workers’ Compensation: Northeast States Have Highest Rates of Post-Treatment Opioid Addiction Among Workers’ Compensation Recipients When a [...]
Social Security Administration Finalizes New Rules for Evaluating Visual Disorders
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Experts Discuss Impact of National Health Reform on Workers’ Compensation
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New Jersey Doctor Pleads Guilty to Dangerous Fraud Schemes
"After years of prominence in his field,” said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, “Jose Katz will now be remembered for his record-setting fraud.” According to federal prosecutors, the [...]
Social Security Administration is Adept at “Weeding Out Disability Cheaters”
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Appellate Division Upholds Benefits for New Jersey Bus Driver
On the morning of June 9, 2010, Walesca Benvenutti—a bus driver employed by Scholastic Bus Company—was sweeping her bus after bringing the students to school. She was [...]
Analyses of California’s Workers’ Compensation Overhaul See Unintended Consequences in Primary Care Costs
After months of negotiations, California labor unions and employers finally came together to help produce SB 863, a new law that overhauls much of that state’s workers’ [...]
“Bullying” Lawsuits Naming Schools as Defendants On the Rise
According to a number of recent articles on the subject, lawsuits—personal injury or otherwise—that are brought as a result of school bullying and that name schools as [...]
Firm News
Craig Hubert Talks Mental Health with “AIR,” Attitudes in Reverse
Partner Craig Hubert recently joined Gabi Johnson of YourTownTube to discuss youth mental health, the central [...]
Five Szaferman Lakind Attorneys Named to 2021 Best Lawyers in America List
The attorneys represent five different practice areas in the Princeton-Metro Region. Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein & Blader [...]
Associate Attorney Joins Szaferman Lakind Business Department
Szaferman Lakind is proud to welcome Raquel P. Catrocho to the firm. Raquel will join the firm’s [...]
Recent Verdicts & Settlements
Ayers v. Township of Jackson, 106 N.J. 557 (1987)
Ayers v. Township of Jackson, 106 N.J. 557 (1987) Arnold Lakind representing Resident Plaintiffs Residents of Jackson [...]
Success Stories: Land Use
Eagle Group of Princeton v. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment of Arnold Lakind representing Eagle Group of Princeton [...]
Success Stories: Employment
Matter of Critchlow, 201 N.J. Super. 371 (App. Div. 1985) Arnold Lakind representing Francis Critchlow The applicant, [...]