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Explaining When to Apply for Social Security Benefits if You were Injured on the Job in New Jersey
You should apply for Social Security Disability right away if you become disabled. The day when your disability began is called the onset date, and you’ll need [...]
Explaining a Section 20 Claim Resolution for Your Injury on the Job in New Jersey
Two types of settlements may result in a workers’ compensation class. One involves all treatment being provided by the workers’ comp insurance company, along with their willingness [...]
What To Do If The Insurance Company Won’t Pay for Their Own Doctor’s Recommended Treatment
If the insurance company won’t pay for the treatment recommended by their own doctor, the first thing you need to do is contact your lawyer. We will [...]
Explaining Whether Your Ordinary Disability Pension Will Affect Your Workers’ Compensation Case
If you have been approved for an ordinary disability pension, it may affect your workers’ compensation case. This will be true if the conditions listed in your [...]
Explaining Why Your Employer is Asking You to Go to a Doctor for Tests
Your doctor’s request to take exams with a doctor is meant to determine whether you will be able to return to your job. These are called fit [...]
Explaining What To Do After Your Social Security Disability Appeal has been Filed
You have filed your social security disability appeal. Now what? Your main focus regarding your appeal should now be to continue your medical treatment while advising your attorney [...]
Explaining Why You Should Report Your Injury on the Job to Your Employer
Have you been injured on the job? You shouldn’t wait to report the injury to your employer. Even if you don’t believe the injury to be significant, [...]
Injured at Work? Report Your Accident to Your Employer
By Tanya Phillips If you are injured at work one of the most important things that you can do is report the accident to your employer. Reporting [...]
Explaining 5 Possible Reasons Why Your Accidental Disability Pension Was Denied
There are 5 main reasons why your accidental disability pension could have been denied: The board does not perceive your injury to constitute total and permanent disability. [...]
What Are Your Rights if You Are Injured at Work?
By Tanya Phillips If you are injured at work in New Jersey you are entitled to three workers’ compensation benefits: 1) Medical benefits, 2) Temporary disability benefits, and [...]
Know What to Expect at Your Disability Pension Trial
After your application for disability pension was denied, you were told you will have a trial at the Office of Administrative Law. While this may evoke visions [...]
Quick Tips For Reporting Accidents in New Jersey
By Tanya Phillips If you are injured in an accident, you should seek medical attention and make sure that report the accident. Below are suggestions for reporting [...]
Firm News
Robert Lytle Appointed as Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey
Robert “Bob” Lytle, Co-Chair of Szaferman Lakind’s Litigation Department, has been appointed as a Judge of the [...]
Szaferman Lakind Names Craig J. Hubert Co-Managing Partner
Szaferman Lakind personal injury attorney Craig Hubert has been named Co-Managing Partner of Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein [...]
Tanya L. Phillips Appointed as a Workers’ Compensation Judge
Tanya L. Phillips, a Partner in the Szaferman Lakind Workers’ Compensation practice, has been appointed as a [...]
Recent Verdicts & Settlements
Favorable NJ Supreme Court Decision Issued in Non-Solicitation Case
Szaferman Lakind prevailed on an appeal to the Supreme Court of New Jersey seeking to reverse a [...]
$25 Million Class Action Suit Against Credit Insurers Settled
A Superior Court Judge sitting in Mercer County approved a $25,000,000 class action settlement in the [...]
Client Receives $200,000 Settlement in Sexual Molestation Case Against School District
Three days into a federal civil rights trial, Daniel S. Sweetser successfully obtained a $200,000 settlement for [...]