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New Jersey Celebrates 100 Years Since the End of the Governorship of Woodrow Wilson—the Father of New Jersey’s Workers’ Compensation System
Workers’ Compensation: New Jersey Celebrates 100 Years Since the End of the Governorship of Woodrow Wilson—the Father of New Jersey’s Workers’ Compensation System In March of 1913—exactly [...]
Social Security Disability Benefits Are Increasingly Difficult to Receive
A recent article on Social Security Disability highlighted an ever-significant trend in the program: benefits are getting harder and harder to get. The article begins by pointing [...]
Workers Compensation: Recently Passed New Jersey Law Curtails Balance Billing of Injured Employees
A few months ago, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed Assembly Bill No. 2652 into law. Before passage of the new legislation, injured employees were directly and personally [...]
Drug Company Pleads Guilty to “End Run” Around the FDA
According to Timothy McInnis, one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, Par Pharmaceutical “risked the lives of senior citizens across the U.S., by illegally off-label marketing [the drug, Megace [...]
Treasury Department Ends Paper Checks for All Social Security Beneficiaries
The days of mailed paper checks are officially over (even if there will be some stragglers). Unless you were born on or before May 1, 1921, you [...]
Allowing Physicians to Dispense Medications Can Increase Workers’ Compensation Claims
Sometimes, aspects of the law in one area affect aspects of the law in another. One example of this so-called ‘rule of unintended consequences’ is the affect [...]
The town of Fort Lee, N.J. began issuing tickets to jaywalking pedestrians caught “texting while walking.
Last year, the town of Fort Lee, N.J. began issuing tickets to jaywalking pedestrians caught “texting while walking.” And now, that approach to preventing resulting injuries is [...]
An individual defrauding the system is weeded out
For the vast majority of people seeking Social Security Disability, claims and injuries are legitimate. And their benefits are entirely justified. However, occasionally, an individual defrauding the [...]
How to set up a safety committee and reduce workers’ compensation claims
A recent article from Smart Business (a online business-management journal) titled “How to set up a safety committee and reduce workers’ compensation claims,” helpfully explores one preventative [...]
Mommy is on fire
A high profile personal injury case in Pennsylvania, New Jersey’s next-door-neighbor, is on its way to being put to rest. A few years ago, Carrie Goretzka stepped [...]
Compassionate Allowance conditions
Recently, the Social Security Administration announced 35 new “Compassionate Allowance conditions.” A Compassionate Allowance condition is a “fast track” to the process of SSDI and SSI disability [...]
Cordeiro wanted to “save the day.”
On the morning of June 17, 2010, Daniel Cordeiro drove two of his employees to a jobsite. Cordeiro was the owner and supervisor of “Danny’s Construction Company,” [...]
Firm News
Szaferman Lakind Supports Trenton Area Soup Kitchen during Coronavirus Outbreak
Today, Szaferman Lakind donated $5,000 to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK). Like all New Jersey [...]
A Message Regarding COVID-19
We want all of our clients to know that we are doing our best to monitor [...]
2020 New Jersey Super Lawyers List Includes 10 Szaferman Lakind Attorneys
Ten (10) Szaferman Lakind attorneys have been included in the 2020 New Jersey Super Lawyers list issued [...]
Recent Verdicts & Settlements
Restricted Stock Awarded by Employer as Deferred Compensation Constitutes Income for Alimony and Child Support Purposes (Brian G. Paul).
Pizi v. Bolam Brian G. Paul of the firm’s family law department successfully defended an ex-husband’s [...]
Appellate Division Affirms Transfer of Sole Custody to Father As Well As 15 Year Old Child’s Right to Decide Whether She Visits With Mother (Brian G. Paul).
Brian G. Paul successfully represented a father in his quest to obtain a post-divorce transfer of [...]
Portions of Final Judgement of Divorce By Default Summarily Reversed and Vacated (Brian G. Paul).
Hunter v. Humphrey Default was recently entered against a husband who had attempted to represent himself [...]